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Britain Outraged by Lavrov’s English
Past weekend, a raft of Britain’s media accused Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of using an expletive in the conversation with Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband. Lavrov is said to have sworn in the phone conversation with Miliband dedicated to Georgia. The RF Foreign Ministry denied the accusations.
That English-language telephone conversation of Lavrov and Miliband happened August 13. According to The Daily Mail, Lavrov exploded when Miliband set to describing Britain’s attitude to Russia’s actions in Georgia. "Who the fuck are you to lecture me?" Lavrov allegedly said.
Of interest is that, according to The Daily Telegraph blog, Lavrov said: "Who are you to fucking lecture me?!"
The bringdown rebuff blamed on Sergei Lavrov is in line with the context of current relations of Russia and Britain that aggravated beyond any limit past year, when the Kremlin ordered to shut down British Council’s offices in Russia and refused to cooperate in the case of Alexander Litvinenko. Britain’s standing on South Ossetia didn’t improve the relations either.
Nevertheless, the RF Foreign Ministry denied such tirade of Lavrov, saying he is the diplomat of great experience, and his comments on foreign events are always well-formed.
Lavrov explained swearing during the Sukhumi news conference. The minister claimed he repeated to Miliband the description of Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili given by one of European leaders. “Fucking lunatic” were the words that Lavrov quoted in an attempt to convince his British counterpart that it had been Saakashvili that had started the war for South Ossetia.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 15, 2008
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