The American Republican Senator Lindsay Graham criticized the intention of the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Eli Cohen already on the third day of his stay in this position to hold a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov. Israeli media write about this.
Lindsay Graham is one of the most prose -tuned US politicians. On the eve of Eli Cohen, he said that on January 3 he had a conversation with Lavrov, and that with him about Russian-Ukrainian relations in the Israeli Foreign Ministry will talk less.
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“The idea that Russia should” bother me “less about the criminal invasion of Russia to the territory of Ukraine,” Lindsay Graham said. “Silence about the criminal behavior of Russia is not the strategy that will withstand the test of time.”
“I am glad that the new minister Mr. Cohen understands the significance of Israeli -American relations and supports the provision of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, – wrote Graham on his Twitter. – But does Mr. Cohen understand that when he is talking with Lavrov, he is talking to with Lavrov. a representative of a criminal regime who every day commit war crimes on an industrial scale? “
Israeli media recalled that since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the predecessor of Cohen Yair Lapid did not talk to Lavrov, and after taking office, the Prime Minister never talked with Russian President Vladimir Putin.