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The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on the calls of the French Foreign Ministry not to recognize Russian and Chinese vaccines in the EU.
“Unacceptable statements. This is a hybrid of racism, imperial hegemonism and neo-Nazism: entire peoples are denied equal rights and opportunities, doing this contrary to laws, ethics and morality, pushing the world to confrontation at a time when it is undergoing the hardest tests of a pandemic, ” Zakharova wrote in her telegram channel.
She noted that she is “struck by the composure, cynicism and cruelty” with which the West is fighting for profit during the fight against the pandemic, without thinking about the fate of millions of people. Those who call for not recognizing vaccines “have nothing to do with the France that gave humanity the ideals of freedom, equality and fraternity,” Zakharova said.
Earlier, the Secretary of State at the French Foreign Ministry, Clement Bon, said that France asks the EU countries not to recognize coronavirus vaccines from Russia and China. According to Bon, in France, people should receive only those vaccines that the authorities are confident in the effectiveness of. Now there are only four such drugs recognized in Europe and France, he pointed out.