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Russia and France will overcome the crisis, but it is impossible to return to old relations — MFA – Russian Politics & Diplomacy
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Russia and France will overcome the crisis, but it is impossible to return to old relations — MFA – Russian Politics & Diplomacy

MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. Moscow and Paris will overcome the current crisis in relations, although a return to the old models of cooperation is hardly possible, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“Whatever challenges Russian-French relations may still face, the French people will have their say and our countries will overcome the current crisis. A return to previous principles and models of cooperation now seems unlikely, as trust has been seriously and permanently damaged,” the ministry stated.

“Western dominance is a thing of the past. By clinging to it, France risks being marginalized in the historical process. The sooner Paris realizes this, the better it will be for France and the French,” the ministry added.

The agency added that, after the revolutionary events in Russia in 1917, diplomatic relations were severed. However, on October 28, 1924, French Prime Minister Edouard Herriot sent a telegram to Mikhail Kalinin, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, expressing his readiness to normalize relations through the exchange of ambassadors. Since the collapse of the USSR, bilateral relations have been determined by the 1992 treaty between Russia and France, which committed both countries to developing relations based on trust, solidarity and cooperation.

“It is even more disappointing that, after the reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014, the French authorities – ignoring Gaullist traditions and the interests of their own citizens – not only joined the anti-Russian sanctions but, together with Germany, engaged in a superficial diplomatic negotiation in an attempt to resolve the Ukraine crisis, which ultimately led to kyiv completely obstructing the Minsk agreements,” the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed. “Since the beginning of the special military operation, Paris has become one of the most ardent supporters of the West’s hybrid war against Russia. It is difficult to recognize the former France in its current, externally influenced stance, which promotes “Russophobia, arms the kyiv regime, and even discusses sending Western troops to Ukraine.”