Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed regret that the US and France are showing wounded pride in connection with the way the crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh was resolved.
"In my contacts with American and French colleagues in recent days, as well as in President Macron's contacts with President Putin on the subject of Nagorno-Karabakh, wounded pride is clearly showing. This is sad," Lavrov said in an interview with the RT TV channel.
Lavrov noted that he had already spoken twice in recent days to his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, "tried to explain to him that we were about people not being killed, not being pulled down from the enforced places, not being replenished with huge numbers - tens of thousands - of refugees and displaced persons".
"In a situation when it was literally about minutes (each of these minutes had a price in the form of human lives), to call Washington, Paris, to agree whether they will support this or that statement ... It is incorrect and unethical to make such claims from the point of view of simple human morality. Unfortunately, politics is often dominated by the desire to "sparkle", to show some quick initiative, to "break the domestic political score", to strengthen its position in some multilateral structures like the European Union, to confirm its leadership, and so on. This is regrettable," the minister summed up.
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Based on materials from RIA Novosti