Russia’s Permanent Representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said he will be leaving Brussels in the near future due to the completion of a 17-year business trip.
“I leave early, my business trip has come to an end. It is no longer convenient for me to serve as a living monument to the strategic partnership between Russia and the EU “, he told Russian reporters in Brussels.
At the same time, the diplomat did not name his successor.
“I can say that during my farewell visits, I warned Europeans that it is much easier to burn bridges than to rebuild them later”, Chizhov said.
In his words, “there will be no return to previous relations with the European Union”.
“The European Union on the world stage stubbornly and consciously rejects an independent role, which for some time has been declaring with more mouths, speaking of its strategic autonomy. Everyone has forgotten about her now. “ Chizhov said, noting that the EU is effectively turning into an “economic appendage of NATO”.
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