Lavrov ”Olympic Committee ‘Discredited Itself Entirely’ over Israel”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. (Photo: Mueller / MSC, via Wikimedia Commons)
“Whatever fits the interests of the West, mainly the US, they support and look for formulas to make it work,” the Russian foreign minister said.
The International Olympic Committee’s position that Zionist athletes aren’t responsible for the actions of their government is “outrageous” given the IOC’s blanket ban on Russia on those very grounds, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday.
“The IOC has discredited itself entirely,” Lavrov told reporters, accusing the body of “demonstrating its political activism time and again.”
“Whatever fits the interests of the West, mainly the US, they support and look for formulas to make it work,” the Russian foreign minister added.
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