- “If an American or any other foreign ambassador from across the ocean suspects something, he or she had better mind their own business,” Russia’s top diplomat said
U.S. Ambassador to Pretoria Reuben Brigety, who alleged that South Africa had provided Russia with weapons should mind his own business, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a news conference on Wednesday.
Asked to comment on allegations by the U.S. diplomat that the Lady R, a cargo ship, was transporting weapons from South Africa to Russia, Lavrov said in Maputo, Mozambique: “South Africa is a sovereign nation. Russia is a sovereign nation, too. And we build our relations in full compliance with the norms and principles of international law that exist in this sphere.
“If a side has any questions in any domain of our cooperation, we tackle them on a bilateral basis.
“If an American or any other foreign ambassador from across the ocean suspects something, he or she had better mind their own business.”
On the alleged weapons deliveries, Lavrov stated that Russia “never violates international norms, unlike our Western counterparts who do so, while declaring their neutrality on the developments in Ukraine, as they pump that country with large amounts of the latest long-range and generally unsafe weapons, including for those who use them.”
The Russian Foreign Minister referred to depleted uranium shells from some of the weapons being used by Ukrainians.
Lavorv emphasized that the West has been sending weapons to the Kiev regime, “whose officials have voiced threats to kill all Russians.
“Therefore, US ambassadors had better take care of their own image in the eyes of the foreign public.”