TorontoWASHINGTON, June 13 Moscow is satisfied with the level and nature of contacts with Canada, despite the statements Foreign Minister of this country Melanie Joly about the senselessness of communicating with Russia, Russian Ambassador to Ottawa Oleg Stepanov told RIA Novosti.
" solutions. Both I and the Minister Counsellor, and our diplomats regularly interact with their counter-partners in the Canadian Foreign Ministry. From the point of view of communication between the embassy and the Foreign Ministry, everything is proceeding in a normal professional manner. We appreciate the quality of our contacts with great satisfaction. The Canadian Foreign Ministry is a professional service with its own traditions,” Stepanov said over the phone.
Thus, the diplomat commented on the condemning statement of Canadian Foreign Minister Joly, who had previously called unacceptable a visit by a representative of her department to a reception at the Russian Embassy on the occasion of Russia Day. As the ambassador noted, «career diplomats understand that they always have to work.» «We work quietly, and such plots and outbreaks, when someone wants to make a scandal from scratch because a representative of Canada's state protocol came to us at reception, as is customary everywhere and everywhere. To make some kind of political plot out of this — we look at it with a smile, «added the head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Ottawa. The reception at the Russian Embassy in Canada took place on June 10. Representatives of the public and the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also present at it, as reported in the diplomatic mission.