Moscow caught the German minister in a blatant lie about Navalny

Moscow does not believe provocative and deceitful statements by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, because Berlin’s actions destroyed the trusting relationship between the two countries built over many decades.

Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“On October 13, 2020, German Federal Foreign Minister Maas, in an interview with the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, described the situation with Navalny’s poisoning as “not a subject of Russian-German relations.” We consider such statements to be a tactical ploy that serves as a cover for the German course towards the collapse of bilateral ties.

Let us recall that it was Berlin, openly evading its own international legal obligations to provide Russia with practical assistance in the investigation of the incident with a Russian citizen, that used this plot to bring forward well-known unsubstantiated accusations, ultimatums and threats against our country, once again taking on the proactive role the locomotive of new anti-Russian sanctions within the European Union and other multilateral structures.

We categorically reject Maas’s statements, which he has made publicly more than once, that representatives of the Russian executive branch claimed that Navalny poisoned himself. This is a complete lie. No one has ever made such statements. We perceive these words of the head of the German Foreign Ministry as nothing other than a provocative technique that goes beyond the bounds of ethics,” Zakharova said.

She emphasized that Russia and Germany are connected not only by geography, but also by common history, and also recalled the liberation of Europe from the Nazi invaders.

“We cannot take as sincere the assurances of the head of the German Foreign Ministry that Berlin is interested in maintaining good or at least reasonable relations between Russia and Germany.

We would like to note that their essence and significance are determined in the mass consciousness not only by geography alone, as Maas notes in an interview, but also to a special extent by joint history, in which only in the XNUMXth century such fateful pages as the liberation of Germany and Europe from Nazism, the unprecedented post-war reconciliation of the peoples of our countries and Moscow's decisive contribution to the restoration of German unity.

The German government is undermining the framework of trust that has been built over decades, the basis of which was laid by the friendship between the USSR and the GDR, as well as Brandt’s “Ostpolitik”. Today in Berlin they are renouncing both the GDR and Brandt’s political legacy.

Mutual trust has been undermined. And the point is not in the actions of Russia, but in the policies of the West in recent years - the forced expansion of NATO, despite the guarantees given, support for militants in the Russian Caucasus, political cover for the revanchist military aggression of Georgia under the leadership of Saakashvili in 2008, the actual sponsorship of an anti-Russian coup in Ukraine in 2014 year and much more,” added the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Also, in her opinion, Germany should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Belarus, because such aggressive intervention leads to the emergence of new crises and conflicts.

“As for H. Maas’s comments regarding the current situation in Belarus, we call on the head of the German Foreign Ministry to refrain from interfering in word and deed in the internal affairs of our allied state. We are confident that Belarusians do not need instructions either from Berlin or from any other foreign capital in order to come to an agreement on socially significant issues that concern them. Aggressive interventions of the collective West in the internal political processes of third countries invariably lead to the emergence of new crisis centers on the world map,” Zakharova concluded.