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Britain Not to Apologize to Russia
Britain wants the best relations with Russia but will make no apologies for the decision to expel diplomats, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in Berlin Monday during the news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
”We want the best relations with Russia,” Brown said as quoted by Reuters. But “action must be taken” when a murder that endangers the lives of British citizens is committed and British prosecutors demand to arrest some person.
The relations of Russia and Britain further aggravated once Moscow refused to extradite Andey Lugovoy, the prime suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Once the FSB officer and then a citizen of Britain, Litvinenko died in a London hospital after ingesting a lethal dose of the radioactive isotope polonium-210. According to Brown, the decision to expel diplomats was just the response to Russia’s refusal to hand over Lugovoy.
The reaction of Russia’s Foreign Ministry was predictably tough. “The actions of London won’t be left without response,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned, promising most serious consequences for Russia’s-British relations.
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Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin
