Russia’s Lavrov has said that the publication of a call between President Emmanuel Macron and Russian leader Vladimir Putin is a breach of “diplomatic etiquette”.
“Diplomatic etiquette does not provide for unilateral leaks of (such) recordings,” Lavrov said on a trip to Vietnam. Lavrov added that Russia had nothing to be ashamed of from the content of the conversation between the two leaders.
The details of the confidential call days before Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine were revealed by the broadcaster France 2 in a documentary on the French president’s handling of the conflict.
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The partial release of a confidential conversation between Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Emmanuel Macron of France in the French media is perplexing and unethical, Russian Foreign Ministry Deputy Spokesman Alexey Zaitsev said at a briefing on Wednesday.
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