U.S. Ambassador to Moscow John Tefft confirmed that he plans to represent his country at the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Russian capital.
"We expect that I'll be there," he told reporters.
first of most Western leaders did not want to come to the Russian capital on May 9 celebrations amid increasing tensions with Russia over the situation in Ukraine. For example, from the visit did not want the presidents of Georgia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Israel, the Prime Ministers of Sweden and Norway, and the UK. In the U.S. capital the absence of President Barack Hussein Obama in the celebrations explained downloaded the chart, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to visit the Russian capital on May 10.
The head of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman, who will arrive in the Russian capital on May 9, even had a fight about this with the US Ambassador, raskritikovali his decision.
it is assumed that the jubilee parade in the Russian capital will be one of the largest and most extensive in recorded history of the holiday. On the 70th anniversary of the Victory of the invitation received 68 foreign leaders and heads of UNESCO, the UN, EU and Council of Europe. First a visit was confirmed by the leaders of More than twenty countries: on the invitation of Russia, for example, responded to the presidents of India, South Africa, Vietnam, Mongolia, Egypt, and the leaders of Cuba, China, the Prime Minister of Greece and leader of Cyprus. For the first time on the Victory parade in the Russian capital there will arrive the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong-UN.
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