Maria Zakharova: Russia embraces the strategy of peace

Russia will do everything to prevent war. This statement was made on the 10^th of December by the foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at the press conference with journalists, who arrived at the international circumpolar congress “Arctic Media World”, in Salekhard.

Zakharova answered the question of a correspondent of the news agency “Sever-Press”, whose neighbor liking political talk shows asked the same question: will there be a war?

Maria Zakharova said that majority political scientists, historians and her friends were interested in this issue.

“I am often asked: is it all over or is there still a chance? I want to say that everyone, from the President to the military men, knows the history and understands the responsibility entrusted to our country. Russia will do everything to prevent this from happening. Russia embraces the strategy of peace”, Maria Zakharova said.

The program of the media congress consists of three plenary sessions devoted to ecology, preservation of traditions of indigenous peoples of the North and socioeconomic development of the Arctic. The Congress was initiated by the Union of journalists in Yamal and is supported by the Union of journalists of Russia, the Ministry of foreign affairs and the government of Yamal. More than 200 representatives of media communities, scientists, politicians, experts from all arctic territories of Russia and 24 circumpolar and other countries became the participants in the event.