McFol is surprised by the reaction of the Foreign Ministry

US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFol is surprised by the reaction of the Russian Foreign Ministry to his speech before students of the Higher School of Economics. “The essence of my excursion into the past was not in the“ spread of egregious lies ”, but to clearly show what it was we overcame, abandoning the outdated ways of conducting diplomacy of previous eras,” McFol wrote on his blog. “Perhaps I should not speak so colorful and straightforwardly. I agree with this, and henceforth I will try to speak more diplomatic,” the American ambassador added.

“In my speech, I sought to give a high assessment of our current cooperation in Central Asia, in which we avoid issues that are not related to business and are not distracted by claims about internal intervention,” McFol explains. He expressed the hope that the parties would "return to the real agenda of Russian-American relations." Representatives of the United States and Russia are currently conducting a serious dialogue in order to stop terrible killings in Syria in order to prevent Iran with nuclear potential gaining in order to promote the development of trade and investment between our two countries, ”McFol emphasized.

On Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry called McFol's statements unprofessional, deliberately distorting reality and "causing a hurry." The estimates that sounded at a meeting of Macfol with HSE students on May 25, “go far beyond the brink of diplomatic etiquette in form, and in fact are a deliberate distortion of a number of aspects of the Russian-American dialogue,” the Foreign Ministry said .

McFol, in particular, accused Moscow of bribing the Kyrgyz leadership in order to "throw the Americans." According to McFaol, Washington resorted to the same methods in the struggle for the Manas military base. “Makfolu is more visible what bribes and to whom Washington gave,” the Foreign Ministry said. “We can only say that ten years ago the administration of J. Bush assured the need (as in the text. - Ed.) To use the Manas base for a year or two. "The ambassador must at least explain the discrepancy between the word and the deed, according to Smolenskaya Square.

The Foreign Ministry also claims that the Russian leadership has never used the term "privileged spheres of influence." "We do not use the concept of" spheres of influence "in practical policy, including in relation to Kyrgyzstan," the statement emphasizes, "the statement emphasizes.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also categorically refuted Macfol's allegations that Russia links to the solution of various international problems. “To declare that we proposed to exchange“ Iran for Georgia ”, and“ Human Rights in Russia - to North Korea, ”means nothing to know about Moscow’s position,” the statement said.

The US air base at the territory of the Manas International Airport in Bishkek has been operating since 2001 and has been used as a transit point for transporting goods and NATO coalition military personnel to Afghanistan. In early 2009, the Kyrgyz authorities terminated the contract for placing the base. In the summer of 2009, Kyrgyzstan and the United States signed a new agreement, according to which the base was renamed the "Transit transportation center", while its functions have not changed.

At the end of 2011, Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev said that the US military base on the territory of the Bishkek civilian airport will be closed in 2014.