this was before. he called the russian ambassador. and asked the russia not to respond to sanctions that president obama imposed during the last days of his presidency with sanctions against russia fully in the past russia not to. respond in kind to avoid confrontation so what's wrong with that is this it against america's best interest in the future. of the member all for the u.s. administration has qsa russia not to seize american property and not to expel american diplomats so that was want to accusations against phil and the other accusation i think was. but a few. he asked him best. to. through my school. ask. moscow to bug the resolution that was being discussed in

the u.n. security council the time for. asking israel to stop building new settlements on the occupied territories and since the obama administration did not want to stand in the way of this resolution and contrary to their previous position they wanted to abstain from flynn based on the charges by council or the special counsel. has. to veto this. was not to veto this resolution i'm not getting into the specifics of this matter i don't want to discuss whether we should have passed this resolution and not but what he did is he asked to russia basically to defend the position that the united states has maintained for decades so these are the two accusations and. michael

flynn i don't know what the court will decide eventually but it's very obvious for me that this situation is completely absurd so that's what's going on with the rushing the united states. the news police. thank you very much you can reach. mr leverett. and we will proceed through my motion. has to do with the peace treaty between japan and russia a government. simply. new round of talks and as we start as you look at what was started on the basis in the. name to. finally put our relations on to a whole new level that cheating was meant to be supported by didn't you mon peoples of the two countries i don't this ten and japan doesn't understand it but if you put it really prerequisites the preconditions for you to put forward japan from the

first and foremost. you agree to all the outcomes sort of the second world war including the russia's right to the. territories it is in the. ultimatum. that we want which you always. you say that chip pan. should capitulate basically. you cannot understand the logic behind these but you will discuss. these islands belong to you and if we put that matter to rest there will be no problems then we can have peace treaty what will be the talks about that can you clarify this please to move was also to push well i already commented on the sushi immediately after my talks with my counterpart but i can repeat. you know what our position is recognizing the outcome

of world war two this is not in the ultimatum this is not a precondition. it's just then inevitable somebody new factor of the international system we have to do your skew so that's cool so you. can use of japan became a member of the united nations supported by the soviet union and ready fight the charter of the including article seven which says that the. world war two is irreversible knowledge should be. so we're not we're just asking japan to come in line with. the u.n. charter in the san francisco declaration. and other documents including the one you mentioned so what does this mean what does our position mean that japan should.

bring its policies in line with the u.n. charter bus system your law. talks your laws talk about the need to do what you call the northern territory's and you have a number of laws that treat for you the so-called northern territory it's just less september you passed a new law which says. the implementation of. initiative on the joint economic development of islands is hinged. on. resolving the northern territory sea sure that's not what we agreed on this is contrary to the u.n. charter so we don't have any additional demands. we just ask wide japan is the only country in the world that refuses to recognize the results of world war two.

heard issue and of course there are a few other matters as well i don't want to repeat myself i don't want to talk about your political military union alliance with the united states and merican military bases in japan. but the two presidents also. talked in the detail about improving our relations economically culturally and managerial contexts but also international contacts with others for us to address complex issues i'm not just talking about the peace treaty there are many other issues that we need to work on that we have to. be partners on the international arena as well we shouldn't be in countries that are divided by. so that are in trenches against each other for

example japan joined not all but many of the sanctions imposed on russia so how do you explain that. when we talk about. going to a new level low bar relations joined japan joined the anti russian statement by those made by the group of seven. and on the various issues seen the united nations japan. with japan votes against us and before going to moscow the japanese the chinese foreign minister went to europe where the meetings between the countries and after that meeting they dubbed it a declaration if you look at what it says you will see that it is. will be construed we are far from being far from even having more soup and that comes through through active. is bringing our positions closer to.

this point it's just. blaming in accusing each other. this declaration adopted by france in japan in the two plus two formats. and japan and france say that they will coordinate with their actions where while japan preside seen the g twenty in france presides in seven we had questions yes because g seven is part of the g twenty and since japan is the chair of the g twenty it has of course to create the conditions for consensus between all the twenty countries they shouldn't just work in the interest of. this group of seven countries which is a section of the g twenty i just hope that this was a mistake made when formulating the text of the statement and we are really hoping

that with our japanese colleagues. professional and work a consensus decisions that will serve the interests of all the countries including developing countries all the members of the g twenty and actually all the other countries of the world as well because of the. decisions made by the g twenty. older members of the international community. next question please. the spanish mr lavrov i would like to ask you one question. sorry but question it. right to ask a question goes to the actually. germany mr lavrov. what is your opinion on the future.

with say well no what mr look i shall. quiet severe i think so what can be the next steps when one side is against many initiatives which are discussed today and also. foreign minister not clever now. a little now they are going to use. planning to you occupied germany germany's foreign minister will be coming to russia so what will it be you will be discussing could you please repeat your question you asked about high command. ok as regards the union state. i'm just surprised. there's so much noise regarding this issue in the mass media so much.

the detax of the treaty is easily available to all of you. it's no secret and actually it was signed a long time ago and we have a lot of things in the treaty in the text of the treaty. we need in the us the things that we bring our two countries are together this is why we formed the union state of the plan was to adopt the constitutional union parliament then the joint have a joint chord with russia and belarus and back. and when we signed the treaty unions moscow and minsk voluntarily agreed to do that then over time it became clear that we are not going to have a common constitution a common a car element. or a common court at least not yet it was more than that it wasn't practical them such and actually we didn't insist on doing that we talked bellow russian counterparts

in recent meetings there we had three recent meetings between our presidents since last december we discussed the provisions of the union treaty. like having common constitution common cart and common parliament for future of some of the specific practical things that we can do together related to the economy and trade but i'm referring. for that over knowing what this treaty said about having common currency common fiscal policy. common monetary policy issues these matters related directly to our joint economic activity is within the union state people so much that it's got more so we will need what we need to look at these terms these provisions and see if we

can do that and we didn't have any disagreements with belarus so were these points as you know we've set up a working group this was based on a decision made by the two presidents and this group is led by. the two. khana me ministers and this group is working on these matters we're not dancing anything new we're just asking our belorussian. partners since they are interested in resolving these certain economic issues which relate to the monetary policy to fiscal policy to these matters we just ask. them to consider how we can bring our positions closer to address the issues that we actually planned to result twenty years ago when we signed the union treaty. that doris wants to address with respect to the russia's so-called tax maneuver and some other things so it's

a very pragmatic situation as you should look for some geopolitical plans geopolitical schemes within or with union state now as regards high command says. as he said himself we're going to discuss the situation in ukraine and syria first and foremost on both issues we have. solutions which need to be implemented and we are ready to have this discussion. and please i know that we have three. your turn now. to what you. think of. them yeah. i would like to tackle. this. first. question. ok and i know that i was a spirit. in

a way that he cannot go into. details maybe you can shed some light on what is it really so that. the man will be visited by u.s. diplomats. and it kind of a conversation about what was swapped out and maybe this is the beginning of another round of the right show or not. and what about three other countries because. their national. u.k. island and canada do they make any more attempts to get an. influence the situation also if i may i would like to let our. colleagues from spanish to ask a question. my question is very briefly tessa do with brazil. as you know.

office and. is basically culturally trump yes tragic like a tropical trumpet. but there are concerns that he will get. some countries. did not recognize nicolas maduro as a legitimate president and much as russia's position on this. i'll start with your last question first the current position is we want to avoid being meddling into the internal affairs of other countries throughout the whole those months or even the years so i think it's been a couple of years we've had the crisis and then as well and we've been supporting all the efforts of the police regions countries to establish to promote dialogue between the government in the opposition and we know that the last year what you're going to come to many countries in latin america expect this to take place but

eventually didn't work out because there's. part of the radical part of the opposition that is being influenced by other countries especially the united states this is what's made this part of the opposition irreconcilable unfortunately where you know we. heard some statements. indicating that a military invasion in then swallowed would be possible and certain countries say they will no longer recognize president from a do or as the leader of the country and will. see you. the head of the parliament as the national leader instead of. all this indicates that the u.s. policy is still to undermine the legitimacy government's in the lead in american and other parts of the world now as regards president belsen r o. he contacted our representatives including. our representative who attended.

he's inauguration state duma speaker the lozenge and here read to related that he will continue. seeking better ties with russia and. brazil will continue playing its role in brics especially since the brazil is chairing the brics this year just recently they gave us. a timetable for the brics meetings this year ministerial meetings and the subjects they plan to discuss in those meetings so i don't see any reason to expect that brazil will be playing a destructive role in brics on the contrary we've been assured that grouping is. one of the priority is in brazil's foreign policy now as regards pulled well and he

had been visited he's been there's a bit by. and. i think irish diplomats or some deaths are going to visit him maybe even today and we've received a request from the u.s. samberg to visit him again and this. ever quest will be granted but the u.k. did not contact us about they don't even mention this as an issue that it exists between the fact that there is a consular convention i think it's nine hundred sixty five convention between russia and the u.k. based on which we should grant this kind of access but they haven't contacted us. because it's based on the very same convention we. quested access to you live sergey st paul and they just ignored our requests they would give us

a formal and negative response so they realize i think that. they are rendered to this convention in that way to themselves. but. our response will be. more cultured if they approach us on this medical based on this convention. as regards. his brother is here we've. explained the situation to brother he's aware of. and he has no come on the objections no complaints about. prison conditions but. trees including canada. insist on. being released and they threaten sanctions well this is all very deplorable and i don't even want to. mention the russian people who are being kept in american prisons. who have

never been. shown any humane treatment even though they are in prison the trumped up charges whereas with paul whalen he was caught detained. red handed he in the act. in the illegal act. when he was said he's hotel this has been reported actually russian penitentiary facilities have about twenty american citizens kept. there. more than half of them don't have dual citizenship. american diplomats are granted regular access to these citizens. when requested but. with respect to any of those citizens we haven't heard. some many

statements made as with poland so again this should make you think and draw your conclusions on the swap no investigation is still underway and your question i guess. that he was arrested because russia wants to swap for a russian citizen detained in the us this is not true at all. such things you know he was detained he was caught red handed caught in the act by syrian media police. mr lavrov good afternoon i want to share with the russian diplomats. have made. two point zero. last year but what about these here. russian diplomats today. fighting. with syria especially so because east of your fate is also the u.s.

withdraws from this region. this is a very important question on the whole what we are seeing progress of course is not as quick as we would like it to be we encounter certain problems on some on the expected problems like a certain point still progress is obvious and we believe we need to continue in the third mission our fight against terrorism it's primarily lived right now where almost all terrorist groups are controlled by. the. terrorist organizations been by the united nations and of course we would very much like to see the green lights that russia and turkey. implemented. these agreement does not say that. yes but it was free to do whatever they wanted and right now we see terrorists bombarding the positions of the syrian army from

school and also trying to attack the russian air base. so we really hope that the very soon we'll have a meeting or at least conversation between the russian and the turkish president. this will be the central issue discussed between the two presidents but i this is what the president put in the president they're going to talk about now here's regards. territory east of the euphrates river. yes the united states has announced that you're going to withdraw and we'll know that they set up. a couple of dozen military installations there including major military bases. and they were reports that they armed kurdish. militias working with them so our search colleagues have. questions what will

happen to these installations what will happen to all those weapons. we believe that the only solution in this situation would be to give the. territories to be controlled by the syrian government the syrian forces so i don't force kurds in the areas where they have been living traditionally. the conditions should be created for them to live there peaceful and we. support contacts between the syrian government in kurdish representatives discussions how to research who are. in this unified country without any external interference. and now is there. the u.s. warplanes in general the first day announced that u.s. forces will withdraw within two months them they said within six months then they

said it would take longer this is mark twain and you know what he said. it's very easy to give up smoking. i have quit smoking like a hundred times before. that's another u.s. tradition i guess we should also remember about another problem shouldn't forget about it. the u.s. said in a legitimate fifty five kilometer zone. there is a refugee camp there that there is no access to this area there was a few minutes here in the convoy that we supported and the syrian government had approved it. couple of weeks ago and against contrary to the issuance was provided by the united states this convoy was not allowed to enter the area through the international red cross. did not get access the militants

seized in this convoy. they they leave they are. enjoying the support and logistical support in this town from erie and nobody knows what happens to this community here in aid where they were able to really go out into the hands of refugees the people doesn't tended for maybe ten years in the hands of militants . to do it when he when our u.n. colleagues have plans to send another convoy there and the situation there is really poor. the thirty to fifty thousand refugees here and there is no access for humanitarian organizations to health those refugees we mayn't we support the position of the syrian government which insists that this time it has to be fully transparent and safe we need to me. sure that this communitarian aid ends up in the hands of refugees not. members of illegitimate militant

groups. and of course here in. responsible for the situation which civilians in a series with. its us military personnel. is. supplied from iraq. so there's food and other. materials being delivered for us military personnel i think this could be something similar would be easily arranged for refugees using the same routes to supply refugees. from iraq and. the kurds leave in countries of the middle east. process a

say that. no question that you have to. watch for. the kurds in syria and iraq also go to this is nick our position is very simple. there are questions regarding encourage population in. syria turkey iraq how other countries all those questions should be resolved based on the national legislation of respective countries and the rights of minorities. in. syria a minority and this should be resolved through talks between the minority. government we insist. sovereignty and territorial integrity of all the countries in this region should be respected because these countries have suffered. too much in recent years because of russian. first

against. syria so it's very important to avoid drawing any borders so i think the kurds in iraq and syria. understand that we need to they need to work out an agreement with the government with the national government that would be mutually acceptable but out undermining the territorial integrity of their respective country. we. call another us from the foreign minister said. on many occasions in such an.