{"id":260077,"date":"2022-10-19T07:42:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T07:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260077"},"modified":"2022-10-21T07:17:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:17:13","slug":"lavrov-suggests-russia-could-downgrade-diplomatic-presence-in-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260077","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov suggests Russia could downgrade diplomatic presence in West"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AFP \u2013 YouTube Oct 18, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ZxPZWIk1yo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2018You Can\u2019t Force Love\u2019: Russian Diplomats Told to Kiss the West Goodbye<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Shannon Vavra \u2013 Yahoo.com Oct 18, 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared Tuesday that there is no need to maintain a diplomatic presence in western countries, in the latest sign that Russia may be toying with the idea of completely severing diplomatic ties with western countries as its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/kamikaze-drone-strikes-hit-kyiv-ukraine-one-week-after-putin-sends-russian-missiles\">war in Ukraine<\/a> nears the nine month mark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is neither point nor desire to maintain the previous presence in Western states. Our people work there in conditions that can hardly be called human,\u201d Lavrov said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1524431\">TASS<\/a>. \u201cProblems are being created constantly for them; they face threats of physical assaults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov, speaking to a group of graduates admitted to the diplomatic service, lamented that there is limited work available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/kremlin-dissidents-warn-europes-travel-bans-against-russians-are-actually-helping-vladimir-putin\">Russians abroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost importantly, there\u2019s no work to do since Europe decided to shut off from us and sever any economic cooperation. You can\u2019t force love,\u201d Lavrov said.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if Russia had immediate plans to sever diplomatic relations with western nations.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not the first time that Russia has threatened to dissolve diplomatic links with the west since invading Ukraine and facing off with western sanctions. Russia threatened to sever diplomatic ties with Bulgaria this summer, after Bulgaria expelled 70 Russian diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has suggested before that its relations with the west could be discarded with little effect. In March, the Kremlin provided the United States a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/599048-russia-warns-us-that-relations-near-breaking-point\/\">\u201cnote of protest,\u201d<\/a> which included a threat to sever relations, following President Joe Biden\u2019s comments about the war in Ukraine. In August, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said if the United States were to sever relations with Russia, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1488085\">Russia would \u201cget over it.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should know: we are prepared for any development of the situation. And if Washington opts to halt any contacts with Moscow, we will get over it,\u201d Zakharova said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s plan is to shift its diplomatic focus to other countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.movies.yahoo.com\/t-force-love-russian-diplomats-210216751.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Lavrov&#8217;s suggested downgrade of diplomatic presence in the West foreshadow a severing of diplomatic ties? If so then war with Russia is definitely looming <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":50382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260105,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260077\/revisions\/260105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}