The President also spoke about the reaction to sanctions and the situation with the Olympics
The final chord of Russian President Vladimir Putin's state visit to China was a press conference for domestic media. The head of state spoke about negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and also answered questions regarding the Ukrainian crisis, sanctions and the Olympic Games.
The head of state’s communication with Russian journalists was held within the walls of Harbin Polytechnic University – immediately after Vladimir Putin’s meeting with students this educational institution.
At the beginning of the press conference, the President highly appreciated both the negotiations held earlier in Beijing with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and the level of relations between the two countries as a whole, which imply comprehensive cooperation and strategic partnership. According to him, Russia and China together are making a great contribution to the formation of a multipolar world.
Journalists bombarded the president with questions about the prospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis. In particular, a reminder was made that earlier both Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had repeatedly said that Western “partners” could not be trusted in this regard.
According to the head of state, the topic of Ukrainian settlement was touched upon during an informal meeting in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who shared the theses of what was discussed during his recent European tour, and also outlined his position related to Chinese peace initiatives.
“As for our counter-partners, let’s say this concerns the Ukrainian leadership and its overseas and European masters, first of all, well, we talked about this many times,” Putin recalled. “When our troops stood near Kiev, what was told to us from the outside our Western partners? “You can’t sign documents if the opposite side has a gun to your head.” What needs to be done, we were asked, “We need to withdraw the troops from Kyiv, the next day they threw away all our agreements.” garbage dump. And they said: “Now we will fight to the end.” And their Western curators took a position that is now known to the whole world: defeat Russia on the battlefield, inflict a strategic defeat.
In this regard, Putin recalled the confessions of the head of the Ukrainian negotiators Arakhamia about how the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson persistently recommended Kyiv to continue hostilities. Otherwise, according to the current head of the faction of the ruling party in the Ukrainian parliament, hostilities would have stopped a year and a half ago.
“Once again we have been screwed,” summed up Vladimir Putin. “Now we must understand with whom and how we can deal. Who and to what extent we can trust.”
According to the Russian leader, Moscow is watching what is happening around the announced summit in Switzerland (“In Geneva, in my opinion,” the president emphasized his disinterest in this strange event). Despite the fact that Russia does not intend to participate in such forums, we never refuse peaceful negotiations, Putin noted.
“They were the ones who withdrew from the negotiation process,” the president pointed out. “They said that they were going to inflict Russia suffered a strategic defeat. And they said that they would fight to the end, actually, not to the end, but to the last Ukrainian.”
The point of the summit planned for the Swiss site, Putin explained, is to gather as many countries as possible, declare that everything has been agreed upon with everyone – and then present it to Russia as a resolved issue.
“Such a development of events will not happen,” – the president snapped.
Putin also touched upon the problems with the legitimacy of the modern Kyiv government, calling its source a coup.
Speaking about the events in the Kharkov direction, the Russian President noted that it was the fault of the Kyiv authorities and their Western sponsors: “They fired and continue to shell residential areas in the border areas… And I said publicly that if this continues, we will be forced to create security zone.”
Putin also appreciated the idea of the Olympic Truce promoted by the French president. In itself, the Russian leader emphasized, it is very correct: “The question is, modern world sports officials themselves violate the principles of the Olympic Charter. They politicize sports… If they themselves violate, not allowing our athletes to compete at the Olympic Games with their flag, with their anthem! In relation to them, they violate, but they want us to follow their rules. Does this not occur to anyone? Does this correspond to some elementary rules of justice? dear friends, things won’t work that way.”
The topic of secondary and tertiary sanctions of the West was also touched upon, which is why the Russian side sometimes has problems with Chinese banks.
Sanctions against third countries, participants in economic activity, Putin noted, are doubly, triply illegitimate: if In general, sanctions are adopted bypassing the UN Security Council; they are, in principle, illegitimate. The same sanctions, the president recalled, were imposed by the Americans even on their European allies: “This is practice – and the Europeans swallow it all, once again confirming their vassal dependence on the sovereign overseas.”
The head of state drew attention to the fact that that the decisions taken by the West cause damage not only to those countries against which sanctions are imposed, but also to the global economy as a whole.
“Great stupidity and a huge mistake,” Putin said about the actions of the American political elite: “They are causing damage to themselves – undermining confidence in the dollar, gradually curtailing the status of the dollar as a global settlement and reserve currency.”
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