6th September 2022 Borrell under fire for alleged 'fascist Russia' comments

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According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Moscow will have "big questions" about how to deal with the European Union if it turns out that the head of European diplomacy really called the Russian Federation a "fascist" country.
MOSCOW, 6 September. /TASS/. Russia asked the office of the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, for a transcript of his words, where he could call the Russian Federation "fascist", but the text has not yet been provided. This was stated on Tuesday by the head of the Russian diplomatic department, Sergei Lavrov, at a press conference following talks with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Thailand Don Pramatvinai.

On Monday, during a speech at an inter-parliamentary conference of the European Parliament in Prague, Borrell, answering questions from MEPs who demanded "concrete actions against Russia" from him, switched to his native Spanish and, according to the official translation into English, uttered the phrase about the absence of a "concrete plan, how to defeat fascist Russia and its fascist regime.

"Mr. Borrell's office immediately denied these reports, saying that he spoke Spanish, there was an inaccuracy in the English translation. We asked Mr. Borrell's office for a transcript of the speech in Spanish, they don't give it to us," Lavrov said.

"If what was reported in all the world's media (that Borrell called Russia "fascist" - TASS note) is confirmed, then we, of course, will have very big questions about how to continue to deal with these people" - said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

According to him, Moscow would also like to know what line the new EU permanent representative in Russia will pursue against the background of these statements.

“Mr Borrell, as I said, is still the man who appoints EU representatives abroad. A week ago we had a new head of the EU Delegation to the Russian Federation appointed by him. And if Mr Borrell takes the fight so instinctively for granted, how put it with the "fascist regime", then I would like to know what instructions and directives he issued to his representative in Moscow, what line this representative will pursue," Lavrov emphasized.

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