PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY (Sputnik) – A number of European countries, including NATO members, who would like to ask Russia for help amid the coronavirus pandemic are not allowed to do so by their patrons, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday.
According to the minister, some countries are thereby trying to drag geopolitics even in the fight against the disease.
Lavrov noted that a grand football club in Europe had to revoke its request for assistance from a Russian non-governmental organisation that is helping with medical supplies amid the pandemic after being discouraged from receiving Russian help.
The world at the same time is interested in combining efforts in fighting the coronavirus, the minister said. He recalled that the Group of 20, despite certain finger-pointing amid the pandemic, did agree on a joint action plan to tackle the challenge.
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