In his extensive interview with reporters on Nov. 11, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov debunked a story that was put out by Britain’s Financial Times earlier about how the mooted Putin-Trump summit was sabotaged by a Russian policy statement, forcefully reiterating Russia’s bottom line on the topic.
“Since this audience consists of professional journalists, I would like to draw your attention to the latest facts of unprofessional and harmful coverage of certain events in the media, primarily British media. You know what is happening at BBC. It’s a shame that some individuals are trying to justify the situation and are speaking about an orchestrated campaign,” Lavrov told reporters.
“There are so many lies here, including when it comes to the sequence of events. The memorandum the FT journalists mentioned is a non-paper, an unofficial draft we have sent to our colleagues not after but several days before the Putin-Trump conversation. It was designed to remind our American colleagues what we discussed in Anchorage, and what agreements we thought we reached (the Americans have not refuted this) during the U.S.-Russian summit. That unofficial document did not contain anything other than what was discussed in Anchorage, which our American counterparts did not regard as cause for rejection.
