He appears in shorts
Confusion about health – Lavrov refuses to be admitted to hospital
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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Nusa Dua. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov showed the shorts after media reports said he was hospitalized on the Indonesian island of Bali. His spokeswoman Maria Zakharova released a video in Nusa Dua on Monday showing the minister reading on a terrace with palm trees and the sea as a backdrop. Dressed in a blue T-shirt with the words Basquiat and the crown of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died in 1988, the 72-year-old says he is preparing to appear at the G20 summit this Tuesday.
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As the most senior Russian politician, Lavrov will attend the meeting of 20 major economies because, according to the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin will not be able to attend due to time constraints. Because of his war of aggression against Ukraine, which has been mired in defeats, Putin is bound to be the country’s commander-in-chief.
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“We will adopt the final declaration tomorrow,” Lavrov said in a video from his ministry. At the same time, he explained that the negotiations regarding the final document of the G20 conference are going on. And the Indian Foreign Minister had called him about integration. Russia is likely to see primarily its words of war against Ukraine. For example, in the G20, China is Russia’s ally.
Lavrov arrived in Bali on Sunday
Lavrov had previously said that a joint final declaration at the Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Cambodia had failed due to a dispute over the wording of the situation in Ukraine. The United States and Western colleagues have insisted on “absolutely unacceptable language regarding the situation in and around Ukraine.”
After the ASEAN meeting, he traveled to Bali, where he was greeted by dancing girls and soldiers at the airport on Sunday. There were media reports on Monday that the minister had been taken to hospital.
Lavrov: “This is nothing new in politics”
“We are here in Indonesia with Sergey Viktorovich, we read the ticker and could not believe our eyes,” said Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the ministry in Nusa Dua on the island of Bali. He said this is now the highest form of fakery. A short time later, she posted a video showing Lavrov sitting at a small table. Lavrov preferred to deny reports that he had stayed at the clinic.
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“It is written that our president has been sick for ten years. “This is nothing new in politics, this kind of game,” Lavrov said. The media, citing Western secret services or informants, reported Putin’s various serious illnesses without any evidence. The Kremlin announced that Putin was not missing anything. Experts say spreading such information is popular among secret services. Point out, for example, that authoritarian politicians are portrayed as weak and vulnerable.
Lavrov specifically called on Western media to report “more honestly” and “more often the truth,” not one-sidedly. In contrast, the US and EU repeatedly accuse Lavrov and the Russian media of targeted lies, propaganda and disinformation. Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Diuku Baisasya said he had no information about Lavrov being hospitalized. “Maybe check with the Russians,” he said.
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