USA, supporting runaway President of Yemen and not supporting the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, acted on double standards: the one and the other situation should have been resolved in the negotiations, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov In..

"We have to use a clich?: the obvious double standards, although, of course, we didn't want any of what is happening in Ukraine, neither the things that are happening in Yemen," said Lavrov, answering a question Last news at a press conference on the results of his visit to Guatemala.

"in each case it is assumed to move towards national reconciliation," he said.

He said that Ukrainian drop would not be, if on February 22 last year, Europe and the countries that witnessed the signing of the Treaty of the Ukrainian opposition and Yanukovych, has used his influence and immediately demanded to restore consensus, crushed the opposition.

"in Yemen, U.S. behaved diametrically opposite way," said Lavrov.

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