A British Foreign Office spokesman said the tour was aimed at demonstrating united support for Ukrainian sovereignty, while the Kremlin warned that Russia’s choice of aggression would have serious economic consequences.
According to the ministry, Liz Truss will call on Russia during her trip to abide by the international agreements it signed, including the Helsinki Final Act, the Minsk Accords, and measures taken by Russia, Britain and the United States to ensure the settlement of Ukraine. Security and territorial integrity.For the signed Budapest Memorandum.
The British Foreign Secretary will also deliver a speech in Kiev, explaining, according to the Foreign Office of London, a world in which people can decide for themselves their own future, free from aggression and coercion, where security is an indivisible right and states are respected. Sovereignty of other states, in compliance with their obligations.
The British government has continued very robust diplomatic activity in the region in recent weeks due to the crisis in Ukraine. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has had two phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin since December, visited Ukraine in early February, and Defense Secretary Ben Wallace also discussed Budapest, Slovenia and Croatia in the first half of this month. Wallace and Liz Truss visited Moscow last week, separated by one day.
Ben Wallace spoke with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Soigo last Friday and said after the meeting that Soigo and Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov assured him that Moscow had no intention of attacking Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomed Blaise Truss to Moscow, but the discussion ended in a somewhat tense mood: Lavrov likened his conversation with the British foreign minister to a “dialogue between the dumb and the deaf” at a press conference after the meeting.
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