The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the statements of Israel’s ambassador to Moscow, Simona Halperi, against Russia are unacceptable and provocative.
Publika.az reports that the Ministry issued a statement criticizing and refuting Halperi’s statements in an interview with the Russian “Kommersant” newspaper.
In the interview, Halper stated that “the International Holocaust Remembrance Day has not been officially announced in Russia,” according to the written statement:
“In the interview, the ambassador of Israel made unacceptable and provocative statements against Russia. It is worth remembering that January 27 was declared International Holocaust Remembrance Day by the initiative of Russia by the UN General Assembly. This date was not chosen by chance. The same day in 1945, Red “The army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland from the Nazis. This information shows the absurdity of the ambassador’s statements.”
The following was noted in Halperi’s criticism of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s previous statements about the Holocaust:
“In Halpery’s interview, the name of Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Baltic countries, where the destruction of monuments to Red Army soldiers was brought to the level of state policy, was not even mentioned. The graves of soldiers who stopped the Holocaust are often vandalized. The ambassador should not forget that he has no right and high moral authority to comment on the Holocaust on his own.”
Roza Shafiyeva
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