MFA: the Differences between Russia and the West over Ukraine hamper the battle against crime

The confrontation of the West With Russia on the situation in Ukraine has a negative impact on cooperation in the field of international fight against crime, said Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Oleg Syromolotov.
"Unfortunately, affects, and, of course, negatively. Because of the Ukrainian dispute our Western partners has been frozen a number of formats counter-terrorism cooperation, such as through the "group of eight" Russia Council?NATO, bilateral consultation mechanisms. To this list of missed opportunities could perhaps be attributed to the present regular (twice a year) meeting on counter-terrorism With the European Union. Their next round is carried by eshowcase for more than a year under false pretenses, "said Syromolotov in the interview to" Kommersant ".
From the opposite side, as we see cooperation against common threats continues in the OSCE and even more intensively ? UN, its security Council. Take such fundamental documents as the same decisions 2170, 2178, or adopted at Russia's initiative, the resolution 2199 that address the challenges of stopping illegal trafficking of terrorists oil, other natural resources and cultural values ", - said the Deputy head of the Russian foreign Ministry. Syromolotov noticed that " multilateral counter-terrorism cooperation is not limited to the Russian-Western formats." These issues are all vectors of Russian foreign policy, in the 1st turn in our relations With our close partners at the bilateral level and in international organizations ? SCO, CSTO, and now, apparently, increasingly in the BRICS. Develop Relationships on the subject of new challenges and threats, and With our more distant partners, to properly understand the unifying nature of the agenda of the anti-terrorist cooperation. Here as example, APEC, ARF, Latin American and African countries, " said Syromolotov. Deputy head of the foreign Ministry drew attention that the Russian Federation is interested in the restoration of cooperation With the West in the fight against crime." Yes, but ? exactly to the same extent as our Western partners. The output of the global terrorist threat in the face of the IG to a whole new level of danger for mankind, characterized barbaric cruelty and violence, will serve as an additional and compelling argument in obgovarivaya these issues, and eventually, hopefully, multilateral counter-terrorism cooperation will regain and universal coverage, and hence the derived results, " said Syromolotov." Thus I wish to stress the fact that due to the Ukrainian events, the West turned With Russia interaction in the combat against terrorism, once again confirms the readiness of some of the Western countries to give up common goals for the sake of some geopolitical problems, bringing double standards in this area. Sad, but to suffer from it in the future will be the citizens, whose anti-terrorism safety is sacrificed to the selfish and often misguided political aspirations ", - he finished. Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection With the situation in Ukraine. At the end of July, the EU and the US from point penalties against private individuals and organizations have moved To the measures against entire sectors of Russia's economy. In response, Russia restricted imports of food items from States that have entered against her punishment.


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