Channels with north korea until any of the terrorists was speaking at the u. N. Security Council Meeting on. The secretary of state Rex Tillerson says hell continue to pursue a diplomatic resolution with north korea but the military remains at the ready but we are not going to accept preconditions you heard others have called for freeze for freeze we do not accept a freeze for freeze as a precondition to talks we do not accept any relaxing of the sanctions regime as a precondition of talks we do not accept a resumption of humanitarian assistance as a precondition of talks so we are not going to accept preconditions for these talks but as i indicated in my remarks our communication Communication Channels remain open north korea knows there are open they know where the door is they know where to walk through that door when they want to talk. Free people have been killed and hundreds of others injured in demonstrations in gaza and the west bank against u. S. President double trumps decisi
What i felt as a former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland but they were mothers postings. I felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society to say look we are being fed. Bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what were being told about. I want to go and i want to see what its like and my process of disenchantment from the western Propaganda Machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events new crime and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. You mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country its a very complex society its sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism its loving russia is its a bit like caring for
Time surfing and i know its a typical but i think its a nice mental picture to get you through the long russian winter but i suspect when you say russia and theres trial and contacts. The associations are probably not so positive are they. They can be quite negative unfortunately weve been fed a diet of cliches about russia. Russia is still very much seen through a post soviet lens. Of success the state to the soviet union and somehow or other. Of starvation in the countries of extreme cold discomfort of. The kinds of things that unfortunately still linger and you wrote the whole book to address some of those negative stereotypes and i think you have a very unusual take for western. Im a western diplomat. When it comes to russia because. I think theres a lot of understanding theres also a lot of compassion in your book and i really appreciate that but i will want to ask you whether you ever felt that you are giving this country an easy pass i dont think so i think that the majority of
Interest thousand and fourteen with the events new crime and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian events a little bit later on into the program but. You mentioned the this negative image of russia and russia is definitely not an easy country its a very complex society its sometimes a very contorted country and i think we the russians are the first to you know and experience that and i think that actually goes to the very notion of russian patriotism and loving russia is its a bit like caring for the disabled loved one you know the disability you hate them but you love the person all the more because of that and that is actually i think the most moving part of your book for me that you accept disability rather than the typical western scolding that russia is not good enough but what i find even more troubling is that thats called thing that irritated russians a lot if you years back now it seems acceptable because it essentially dick rest in
Ask you whether you ever felt that you are giving this country an easy pass i dont think i think that the majority of the content of my book deals with the sometimes very disagreeable parts of russias history ive got a chapter on the leg museum ive got a chapter on the Jewish Museum of tolerance and i talk very frankly in those two chapters of some of the black spots in russias history and i think what i felt as a former professional diplomat for thirty years and i was an ambassador to poland and. That we must postings. I felt i had a certain responsibility to my own society to say look we are being fed. Bad fantasies about russia the real russia is not what were being told about. I want to go and i want to see what its like and my process of disenchantment from the western Propaganda Machine against russia it really began pretty much in interest thousand and fourteen with the events in ukraine and the way in which they were being reported now i hope we will go into the ukrainian event