Russian foreign minister tells US to behave "like grown-ups"

[brotherplanet]

I love the hypocrisy of our own government. I mean, how many Soviet defectors did we allow into our country throughout the years?




Russian foreign minister tells US to behave 'like grown-ups'



The chill in relations between the US and Russia grew still frostier yesterday as President Vladimir Putin's foreign minister told the White House to start behaving like "grown-ups".


Sergei Lavrov chided the US administration two days after President Barack Obama scrapped a summit with Mr Putin when Russia granted asylum to Edward Snowden, the fugitive US spy.

"We need to work as grown-ups," he told a press conference in Washington alongside John Kerry, the US Secretary of State. "This is what we do. And we hope that this will be reciprocal".

Mr Obama reacted furiously this week to Russia's approval of temporary asylum for Mr Snowden, a National Security Agency contractor who gave secret documents to the media.

Accusing Moscow of a "slip back into Cold War thinking", the president pulled out of a planned bilateral meeting with Mr Putin in Moscow before the G20 summit in St Petersburg next month.

Mr Lavrov and Sergei Shoygu, the Russian defence minister, kept to a scheduled visit to the US capital yesterday for meetings with Mr Kerry and Chuck Hagel, the US defence secretary.


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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... n-ups.html

[Danzig in the Dark]

I love the hypocrisy of our own government. I mean, how many Soviet defectors did we allow into our country throughout the years?

A bunch more than they let in from the US. Anyway, Snowden is not a defector.