and they understand that it may not be necessary to engage in such and such diplomatic practice, and you may, may not know the entire vienna convention, and jumped out at once, so yes, it has a bad effect, especially if the proportion of these political appointments is already off the charts , it 's true, look at the last ten appointments there, you will understand everything, and there is a second issue here, which can be solved even with this approach, this model, unfilled positions. it is necessary to somehow close the issue with this publicized initiative of the embassies africa, which did not end with anything, you remember, the competition, everyone is there , let's go to africa, we will be ambassadors, it did not end with anything, it seems that a year has already passed, that is, more than 20 positions in the world have not been filled, well, there are those who would we need to pay more attention now, and norway is the same, and norway is currently making a lot of efforts to help ukraine. there is the issue of the czech republic, but it seems

to be closed there now, well, there are countries in asia such as the philippines, malaysia, that is, there are countries where it is simply very necessary to have ambassadors right now, well, everyone knows this, but in principle this impression that these empty positions remain for other purposes. mr. valery, to end this conversation, i will ask you, not as a diplomat , but as a politician, and why do you think zaluzhny agreed to this proposal? if you are not a diplomat, i will tell you, ask questions to valery fyodorovych zaluzhny and the president of ukraine, these are basically their questions. thank you, friends, i would like to remind you that we are conducting a survey during our broadcast and we are asking you about whether you approve of the appointment of a diligent ambassador to great britain, everything is quite on youtube simply, yes no, or write your comment under this video. well, you can take part in

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but ukraine can stop putin if we stand with it and give it the weapons it needs, and that's all ukraine is asking for, it's not asking for our soldiers, there's not a single american soldier in ukraine, and i'm going to make sure it happens. mr. valery, tell me if he was convincing joseph biden in his speech? well, in principle, american viewers, i am now saying during the speech that precisely the fact that the first issue was ukraine and... the struggle for democracy in

the world, justice, freedom, and then about nato, said the us president, this gave him a speech, gave dynamism, such confidence, because there were a lot of further questions about the internal american situation, where the supporters of the current us president, the opposition, have different opinions, but here, well, no one could, even there, being in the hall, somehow show even speaker johnson that ... he is against such an approach, although speeches are, of course, speeches, and although this speech, an address to the nation, is, in fact, the state of the union, the state of affairs in the state, that is, it is very widely broadcast, many people see it, and in this regard , this is a very good impulse now again attention to the issue of aid to ukraine, very good, at the beginning so concentrated , sure, but, this, this is very good, so i

can only approve of it, but, i will say that joseph biden has also spoken very powerfully before , and in principle i will. what is this speech now, they will get to it, but it must be done now will not change the pace of the adoption of the aid package there, it is the pace, i think, in the end , decisive steps, i would advise to make some decisions quickly there, at least 200-300 million for immediate needs, that is, those needs on the front that are needed now in the coming weeks, and shells for heimers and everything. that has already been delivered, thanks to the united states, and to speed up everything that has already been decided, where the funds have already been allocated, and so that it is at the front, and secondly, after all, the time has passed, apparently, to recognize russia as a sponsor country terrorism, so, well, it is not only such

a definition in the usa, it is not only the countries that finance terrorism, the sponsor, as we perceive it, but also the countries themselves that are involved in such actions, especially now against the background of the statement of the american embassy, ​​i so i understood, moscow, that moscow is preparing terrorist attacks in its own country, that is, well, we have many manifestations , for example, the seizure of the zaporozhye nuclear power station, you forgot about it, somehow it all went into the shadows, that is, i think that it is necessary to turn now to talk about insisting that the united states accepted it decision, there is a decision that the us and the administration can make unexpectedly, when there will be a package, this saga that has changed. here's a soap opera, it's going to continue , it's going to end there, it's not going to be a package cut on certain different terms, but it's going to be, i think the chances of that have increased now after the supreme court decision, when donald trump is actually, well, allowed to in fact, he should enter this campaign, that is,

the wrong word will allow, but certain moments were removed, so i think that the recognition of russia, precisely as a sponsor of terrorism, as a country sponsor terrorism, this will be a sign, not a gesture of recognition. the so-called russian elections and a clearer position and work in this regard with other partners, it will also be useful, direct military aid there, where it is possible to allocate from the existing needs, well, still, it would be a strong move, but for me it is strong the move would be after this statement, the invitation of ukraine to the nto, at the anniversary summit in washington, joseph biden would make exactly such a decision for... will remain in history, i am not saying right away that this will lead to membership in nato, but it would be a powerful a signal to the kremlin, that, in principle, all decisions have been made about the victory of ukraine, this would be a signal, well , let's see how the decision will be, you already asked about donald trump, he

said in his post on twitter, or not on twitter, in his social network trash social, that biden betrayed ukraine and called him putin's puppet. and xijin ping, to quote what trump wrote. he said i kowtowed to the russian leader, he gave them everything, including ukraine, i took nord stream 2, he gave it to them, he was a puppet for putin and xi and pretty much everyone another leader - wrote trump. at the same time, the former president of the united states of america emphasized that russia invaded ukraine only because putin does not respect biden. according to him , this would never have happened with the administration. trump, well, trump probably forgets that the war has been going on for 10 years, and in principle, some of his statements about biden and about what he did not give there, and his flirting about xi jinping and north korea and other countries that are in one

way or another, they are now putin's allies. i would not comment on all of these internal the situation, including the statement, the following is much more important to us: there was an option that we could be like this, well, outside the campaign, and the issue of ukraine, we did not avoid this, so, in principle, it might be good, because donald trump actually pushed there joseph biden, if you can say so politically, in the issue of ukraine in the campaign, now the issue of aid to ukraine has become the subject of the election campaign, so here... it's not so bad, it will be more difficult, of course, to work in this regard, but it will already be attention is paid by the whole society americans, and you know what this means , it means that the voters are also paying attention to it, traditionally in america, foreign policy in general is about the 20th issue there, and

now it is not even an issue of the middle east , not even an issue of china, which is further south asia sounded, but the question of ukraine came up again. into a discussion, into a debate at the highest level, this is a platform for powerful ukrainian work, that is, we can use it, well, without crossing red lines, and... from the point of view of domestic american politics, this is a new challenge, and i think that it must be remembered that it is not up to us, let's say, to choose the president, it is the business of the american people, but i will say that, well, that's also, you know , just look at the statements, i look at the result, i look at the result, and joseph biden is doing a lot now for to help, but we want... well, to have a slightly different strategy, and we are looking for such a solution

together with allies, and donald trump still made a political decision to provide lethal weapons to ukraine, let 's be honest, before that the administration democrats did not make such a decision, though we showed the same thing to them and explained how it is wrong, it should not be done, under donald trump it was done, i was at those negotiations, i was present. directly together with the president of ukraine and the minister of foreign affairs, that is, there was this conversation and it was the lethal weapons, this unspoken embargo , that was overcome precisely by the decision of donald trump, no matter how much he might there and did not want it right away, so you know, let's not put some there are stamps, and joseph biden for some reason started to be written off by everyone there, well ukrainian commentators, that's donald trump. why? i generally believe that the outcome is completely unpredictable. moreover, let's look at the congress, the elections on november 5 -

the house of representatives is completely reshuffled, a third of the senate, and without the senate, without the approval of positions, no president can implement his foreign policy or serious matters in the field of international communication, that is, there is a lot questions, and i assure you that there will be a lot of changes. we will wait elections really, because we already had experience in ukraine is such that some comments, which were not acceptable for one of the parties in the race, then they simply responded badly to us, and this should also be remembered, let's talk about emmanuel macron, because emmanuel macron has been demonstrating the ability over the last month, or let's say the desire to be one of'. new europe, or the leader of the european continent, and he

talked a lot about the fact that russia threatens europe, he gathered the leaders of 20 european countries and talked about what is happening now on the european continent, what is happening in ukraine, but at the same time, macron met with the heads of french political parties, and today the french press writes that... they discussed with the french president the possibility, or his words that the french military contingent could be in ukraine, what the press writes, referring to fabien roussel, the leader of the communist party in france, says that he says that emmanuel macron has mentioned a scenario in which he can initiate an intervention, in particular the advance of the front to the side. odesa or in the direction of kyiv, that is, judging by what i told

fabien roussel, macron does not rule out the intervention of the french army on the territory of ukraine if the russians attack odesa and kyiv. that's what macron's latest public statements mean, that is, you can't the president of france casually mention about sending a military contingent. then in some different speeches in different places, that is, he clearly has some kind of position, he just hints about this position to putin? i will tell you that it was not a secret for me, i think that what was clear to us was that the countries of the european union, nato, could face russian provocation and even an attack. their territory, and even though the war with ukraine continues, we, our heroic soldiers,

men, women, are holding back this influx, but i believe that it is a great advantage, and not for 3-5 years, as their intelligence there or the ministry of defense they say, much faster, and maybe even during such a positional war , such conditions can be created for russia's enemies to show the inability of the country itself. nato and the european union to respond to the eastern flank, so the sagging is certain america, and here is the signal that we heard a long time ago, not now, but somewhere in october, another month, what will happen... they heard the delay in europe immediately and immediately asked questions, then serious conversations took place behind closed doors, let's say , not public, also about how to react, and here we are already seeing the political consequences of those conversations of experts, that is, now in these political conditions, the first has already been actually accepted as a consensus that there is such a threat,

it is very serious and may very well be in the coming years, this... this is the first thing from russia, the second thing is that europe's responsibility is growing, therefore europe must wake up and take concrete steps in the field of defense, and the production of weapons, and aid, well, in this case , aid to ukraine, well, its own, to increase arsenals, and so on, that is, first of all , allocations, first of all, how much money is allocated for this, and thirdly, it is competition, well , is it such a good competition for the leadership of countries. and political figures precisely in this sphere, that is why emmanuel macron took such a step ahead of the curve, gathered, just in paris, 26 on february 7, the heads of state will be there, and on march 7 it will be precisely the defense ministers of these 28 countries plus, as i understand it, the secretary of nato and the head of eu foreign policy, jose borel, and they,

with the participation, by the way, of the ukrainian side, they want to speed up, activate. efforts and a lot indeed . politically, emmanuel macron is now taking a lot of such measures before his visit to ukraine, so i hope that olaf scholz will not lag behind in this regard, and we do receive his leadership decision to provide ukraine taurus rockets. the bundestag accepted such a proposal, the military, as i understand it, also do not see such cardinal pro... answers, so the question is for him, for the chancellor of germany, and it should not be the traditional competition between the historical and france, germany, which in principle , it continues somewhere, but they are together allies in the eu and in nato, but this is the competition to really achieve leadership in security in europe, because the russian war against

ukraine is not only about ukraine, unfortunately, in it happens to us, but it is with an ultimatum europe, an ultimatum. nato. and the last thing, why is this happening: euro-atlantic competition. also, don't forget that france , at one time, somewhere out of some of nato's military instruments, tried to be one of the active founders of the western european union, there was such an organization that had to, well, in fact, become an alternative to nato on the european continent. it did not get to this without the usa and canada, this organization has not existed since 2011, so i think that the second stage is precisely the conversation between emmanuel macron and joseph biden, i have no information about plans for such a visit or meeting, but i have no doubt that after in the near future, i

think that such a meeting, it is absolutely logical, because chancellor scholz was. in washington, and it is possible that new transatlantic points will be considered there, because the ramstein format without additional packages of the us military is a little, frankly, it is a little, not so bright now, because they always started with american aid, well, but alternatives he will not be either, because without of the united states, without their power and volume of armed species. they won't be able to do it either, but that's all, all these leadership statements are a good sign. you mentioned olaf scholz and the bundestag's decision on long-range taurus missiles, but at the same time the minister of defense of the federal republic of germany, boris pistorius, says that long-range missiles will not be decisive for the conflict in ukraine, and germany is not

going to cross that line, and it seems that pistorius and scholz are being pushed to such a position these are the intercepted conversations of the german military thrown out by the russians discussing a possible taurus missile attack on the crimean bridge, or does this story, a spy story with intercepted conversations, with notes on germany's position and how much they will restrain themselves in handing over taurus missiles to us? it would be strange if this one. the story influenced the position of germany, rather it influenced the dialogue between the allies to ensure the secrecy of information, that is, the possibilities of russian intelligence. and others to remove this information, this is the main thing happened after there was a shower of this conversation, and the second point, which is very positive, that they

are there, if it is true, if this conversation is true, then there are very correct specific some things they say it is purely technical in nature, now regarding if they say that the missiles taurus can be used there in the crimea, sorry. and what? in our country, ukraine observes all export control regimes, it is a sovereign country, has the right to receive weapons from other countries, the more so the right to be provided by the un charter, which germany is a member of, that is, ukraine also supports an even greater role for germany, so these missiles, when they or other weapons that become ours in ukraine, they become our own. they are not the property of germany, so if there are concerns about providing some kind of technical support there, it can

be solved by education, trainings, this is firstly, secondly, sorry, again, there were several arguments, then something will fly around moscow, then then they said that let the americans provide atakams, the americans provided atakams, well, i hope now they will think and do more package where there will be more. then just what questions do you have, you are afraid of russia, you are afraid, well, they will come to you, if you continue to pull, then it will be missiles, daggers, that's all, not the nuclear weapons that they scare, scare moscow, no, but all these drones will fly to you and these rockets are flying, which are now hitting sumy, kharkov, odesa, zaporizhzhia, kherson, that is, you want to avoid this, you don't... you have a unique opportunity now to concentrate efforts for ukraine on its territory, this a tragedy for us, but we have every right to do it and at least no one forbade us

, not even that in our territory, we can respond to attacks from outside, well we don't, we didn't say anywhere and they know it very well , that ukraine is not trying to seize moscow, will not try to advance there to leningrad, no, but, excuse me, but i... if you do not support us now, that is such a cynical, very cynical position, and i do not agree with the minister here defense of germany, which is possible by the missiles themselves some will not change, but if there are several hundred atakams, a hundred taurus, there will be f16s, there will be all the means and there will be motivation of ukrainians to defend not only ukraine, but europe, and if not, then sorry, you will have them... i don't i want to publicly say what these countries will face then, that is, they understand it very well, that is why politicians lag behind their development very seriously, they lag behind with a certain lag, and

germany needs to leave this absolutely phantom fear in the past. mr. valery, against the background of how europe is trying concentrate, now regroup and give answers to the questions that obviously... very soon may appear before them, china's special representative for eurasia lihui, he came and made a tour, and he was in europe, he went to kyiv, he spoke with ukrainian officials, and spoke , including, about the future of ukraine and russia, they have this peace plan, with which they always, always articulate, but on... the day of this visit to kyiv, the chinese foreign ministry announced the strengthening of russia's friendship with china and said about it

head of the ministry of foreign affairs of china wang yi and he said that we are ready to create work to create new driving forces of cooperation. let's hear what he said. as a key conductor. countries of the world and permanent members of the un security council, china and russia have developed a new paradigm of relations between major countries, which differs from the outdated approach of the cold war. based on non-aligned, non-confrontational and non-targeting of any third party, china and russia strive for long-lasting good-neighborliness and friendship, deepening comprehensive strategic cooperation. china is ready to cooperate. with russia for further development, creating new driving forces for cooperation and steadily strengthening the basis of friendship between the two peoples. does it mean?

statement, mr. valery, that china is still ready to support russia, which is waging an aggressive war against ukraine. there were several statements, the position was clear, uh, i just don’t know, well, how can you act as a mediator there with such a position, it is difficult to understand here, because after all , there is an obvious imbalance in the attitude towards russia and ukraine, even from the same messages in kyiv. "when did the representative for eurasia, china meet, and exactly who is involved now , as you said in all these trips, that is , the ukrainian crisis sounds in the official reports, well, that is, well if, let's start at least with a phrase of recognition of the fact, that, what is happening, and then we can talk about something further, because if china will say that it is the ukrainian crisis and ignore the dead

children of ukrainian women from russian missiles, then i'm sorry, but then what can we talk about? i think that our there to the participants of this conversation it was hardly possible to change china's position, maybe china just made a completely different decision, is ukraine ready to give up its position? in the interests of precisely china, and it is very difficult now, because china, unfortunately, uh, does not change this line, although ... constructive is to prevent this rattling of nuclear weapons by russia and threats, i i don't know why you can't talk about the issue in this way, well, it was talked about, but still achieving a result on the zaporizhzhia plant is absolutely the capture of a nuclear facility, it's what that china does not tolerate absolutely, and it would be a huge step forward if russia were forced by joint efforts

not to use just that. captured nuclear plant in europe for such military purposes, so in principle i do not expect a change in china's position yet, but as the situation on the front changes and ukraine's capabilities increase and russia's decreases, i am sure that china will also be forced to adjust its position. you mentioned another statement by wang. you probably meant peaceful perego. now we will also listen to what the minister said of china's foreign affairs regarding possible peace talks, as he says, between ukraine and russia. in the ukrainian issue, china has always maintained an objective and fair position and has repeatedly sent special envoys to mediate. the president of the people's republic of china xi jinping personally held in-depth communication with the leaders of various countries,

including. russia and ukraine. everything we have done is aimed at one goal: to pave the way and build bridges to end hostilities and hold peace talks. here wanyi says what is official beijing started talking with the beginning of the great war about the fact that there are two sides, and they should sit down at the table for negotiations, but there was no statement from the chinese side that russia should leave the territory of ukraine and... this is the mediation that they suggest what it is connected with , why they do not want, they do not want to quarrel with russia, they want russia to be exhausted in the war with ukraine and with, well, with our western partners who help us, that is, why china reacts so passively on this? well, look, this is a very deep topic, i will not be for china

to answer, i will only... i will say one thing, if someone thinks there in china, and elsewhere, that they will pressure ukraine so that ukraine is forced to give up part of the territories to russia, which russia has declared to be theirs, well, captured and currently occupied there, and to make peace on this, as they say, then it frees the hands, in many respects, not only for china, to decide. the conflicts that china has, including, are not yet military, but they are a forceful method, if we assume that in this way it will be recognized that it is possible to force a sovereign country by various there by forceful military efforts, just such a violation of all the rules and the un charter, well, in fact, annexation is possible.