Moscow asks U.S. for clarification following Gates remark about Russia’s future
MOSCOW — Moscow has asked the United States for a clarification following remarks in which U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested that Russia’s future course is uncertain and lumped the nation together with Iran and North Korea, the Foreign Ministry said Monday.
Gates ruffled Russian feathers when he identified Russia as a potential threat, telling a U.S. House of Representatives committee meeting last week: “We don’t know what’s going to develop in places like Russia and China, in North Korea, in Iran and elsewhere.”
Russia has asked the United States to clarify whether the remark corresponds with the position of the U.S. administration, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The remark was among several by members of the U.S. military and intelligence community that “cause us bewilderment,” it said.
“It is hard to avoid the impression that all these statements are part of a certain system of negative evaluations of our country. The question is how much this reflects real U.S. policy,” the ministry said.
Russian officials resent being juxtaposed with countries that U.S. President George W. Bush included in his “axis of evil,” as well as what they took as a suggestion that Russia is an unpredictable wild card — part of the international security problem, rather than part of the solution.
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Gates ruffled Russian feathers when he identified Russia as a potential threat, telling a U.S. House of Representatives committee meeting last week: “We don’t know what’s going to develop in places like Russia and China, in North Korea, in Iran and elsewhere.”
Russia has asked the United States to clarify whether the remark corresponds with the position of the U.S. administration, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The remark was among several by members of the U.S. military and intelligence community that “cause us bewilderment,” it said.
“It is hard to avoid the impression that all these statements are part of a certain system of negative evaluations of our country. The question is how much this reflects real U.S. policy,” the ministry said.
Russian officials resent being juxtaposed with countries that U.S. President George W. Bush included in his “axis of evil,” as well as what they took as a suggestion that Russia is an unpredictable wild card — part of the international security problem, rather than part of the solution.
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