Russia Suspends Its Permanent Mission To NATO, No Active Communication Present – As of November 1st, Russia will suspend its permanent mission and other bodies for contacts with NATO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies that staff at NATO’s military mission in Moscow would be stripped of their accreditation from November 1, and that NATO could interact with Russia via its embassy in Brussels if needed.
“We basically don’t have proper conditions for basic diplomatic activities as a result of the purposeful NATO steps. In response to NATO’s activities, we suspend the work of our permanent mission to NATO, including the work of the chief military representative, starting from November 1, or maybe it will take a couple more days,” said Lavrov.
“Secondly, we suspend the work of NATO’s military liaison in Moscow. Its employees’ accreditations will be recalled on November 1. And thirdly, we cease the work of NATO’s information bureau which was founded under Belgium’s embassy.” Also, the NATO military mission in Moscow will cease its functions indefinitely, and the information bureau will be closed.
Lavrov noted that now there is no communication between the parties through the military.
“If NATO members have any urgent matters, they can turn to our ambassador to Belgium on these issues, who ensures bilateral relations between Russia and the Kingdom of Belgium,” Lavrov said. Earlier this month, NATO expelled eight members of Russia’s mission to the alliance who it said were “undeclared Russian intelligence officers”.
According to the minister, this decision was not explained to Russia. Lavrov stressed that Moscow “will no longer pretend that any changes in relations are possible in the near future.”
At that time, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko accused NATO of duplicity and of using the idea of an alleged threat from Moscow as a bogeyman.
“After the dramatic end of the Afghan era, how can they can get by without the bogeyman of the ‘Russian threat’. They can’t,” he told Russia’s Kommersant daily newspaper. NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia in 2014 after Crimea became part of the Russian Federation, but has kept channels open for high-level meetings and for military-to-military cooperation.
Bloomberg: The Financial Times has reported that China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile. Could the foreign ministry confirmed if China has such a missile?
Zhao Lijian: As we understand, this was a routine test of space vehicle to verify technology of spacecraft’s reusability. It is of great significance to reducing the cost of using space vehicle and providing a convenient and cheap way for mankind’s two-way transportation in the peaceful use of space. Several companies around the world have conducted similar tests.
After separating from the space vehicle before its return, the supporting devices will burn up when it’s falling in the atmosphere and the debris will fall into the high seas. China will work with other countries in the world for the peaceful use of space for the benefit of mankind.
AFP: Is the missile you mentioned the same missile reported by the Financial Times?
Zhao Lijian: As I just said, it’s not missile, but a space vehicle.
CIA is heavily recruiting Canada and US born Chinese as spies to engage in subversive activities against China and Chinese around the world. 中央情報局正在大量招募加拿大和美國出生的中國人作為間諜漢奸從事針對中國和世界各地華人的顛覆活動, 用任何手段方法阻止中國掘起. SCMP HK & World Journal SF 10-17-21
How the White House continue to promote fake news on Xinjiang China! No mention, of course, of the systematic dispossession and extermination campaigns against indigenous peoples across this continent.
Professor Ken Hammonds: No mention, of course, of the systematic dispossession and extermination campaigns against indigenous peoples across this continent as America acted out its “Manifest Destiny”, or the continuing perpetuation of poverty and marginalization on the “reservations” to which the survivors of U.S. expansionism have been relegated for more than a century. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Professor John Walsh: Biden: “We can’t return to a world where might is right and strong nations abuse weak or oppress individual rights with impunity.”
Is he kidding? Strong nations abuse weak? He forgets US wars on Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria (where US troops hold the energy and agricultural regions, thus starving the country of food and fuel) – not to mentions the regime change ops and sanctions on countless countries which are causing starvation and death worsened during Covid. And the cyberwarfare about which we know little save for Stuxnet aimed successfully at long suffering Iran and came back to bite.
Can any thoughtful person listen to this pap?
Who is writing this junk for Slo Joe? It is really an insult to us that such a lie could spill out of the teleprompter onto the lips of Biden and out to the world.
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