Lavrov Scoffs at Kouchner’s Sanctions Remarks

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on August 28 that Moscow hadn’t heard about any possible EU sanctions against Russia for its actions in Georgia.

Lavrov’s remarks followed a journalist’s request for him to comment on remarks made by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who said in Paris on August 28 that “sanctions are being considered [by the EU] … and many other means as well as that.” Kouchner did not give further details.

Lavrov then went on to say: “I have met him,” referring to Kouchner, and “he talks a lot.”

“I think this [Kouchner’s statement] proves that he is completely lost, because the beloved child of some Western capitals has not lived up to expectations,” Itar-Tass news agency quoted Lavrov as saying in Dushanbe.

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