Former British Prime Minister Johnson spoke about negotiations with Lavrov in 2017
The former Foreign Minister (2016-2018) and ex-Prime Minister of Britain (2019-2022) spoke about the course of his first meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow in 2017. Excerpt from Johnson’s recently released memoir published RBC.
Johnson himself, who visited Moscow while serving as head of the Foreign Office, described Lavrov as follows: “Tall, smoking cigarettes one after another, half-Armenian, dark and with a strange, contented squint. He is Russia’s longest-serving foreign minister since tsarist times, and he is Gromyko our days.” “I’m not Sir Gay,” Lavrov said as we shook hands. “Sir Gays are in your Foreign Office,” says the memoir about Johnson’s first dialogue with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
According to Johnson, the main purpose of the negotiations was to discuss the situation in Syria and Ukraine, but they did not bring any results. At the same time, he clearly remembered the lunch that followed the meeting, during which Lavrov “forced” the future British Prime Minister “to sit in front of a blazing fireplace, so hot that sweat flowed down my face,” and Lavrov himself seemed to him “a headman tormenting a classmate.” fagot in a Victorian school.”
On the day of publication of his memoirs, October 10, Johnson hinted at a possible return to big politics, comparing politicians to cockroaches and wasps. “For politicians to be effective, they must, like wasps in a jam jar, like cockroaches, strive to survive and continue to exist,” he said.
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