Russia is ready to answer for its stance and always conducts negotiations in such a way so it "has nothing to be ashamed of afterwards," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday, commenting on Paris having made public the confidential talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
"Essentially, we always hold talks in such a way so that we’ll have nothing to be ashamed of ever. We always say what we think and are ready to be held responsible for our words and clarify our position," he said at a press conference following talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son in Hanoi.
"I think that diplomatic ethics, of course, does not provide for such a unilateral leak of a recording," the Russian top diplomat noted.
