The allegations Trump
had exerted pressure on Zelensky to persuade Kiev to indirectly help him secure
re-election for a second term in 2020 triggered a row in Washington.
UNITED NATIONS,
September 27. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has slammed allegations
about Russia’s involvement in the scandal around the telephone conversation
between US and Ukrainian presidents, Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky, as
manifestations of paranoia.
"When either new
sanctions or new accusations of more and more deadly sins appear evey day, if
not every hour - today [US Congress House of Representatives Speaker] Nancy
Pelosi even said that Russia is behind the incident around the telephone
conversation between Presidents Trump and Zelensky, that it was Russia that had
played this trick, I think it is paranoia, it is obvious for all," he said
on Friday at a news conference after his speech at the 74th session of the
United Nations General Assembly.
The allegations Trump
had exerted pressure on Zelensky to persuade Kiev to indirectly help him secure
re-election for a second term in 2020 triggered a row in Washington. Trump’s
opponents claimed that the US leader sought to exert pressure on Ukrainian
President Vladimir Zelensky to launch an investigation of Hunter Biden, whose
father, former US Vice President Josef Biden, is now Trump’s most probable
rival at the upcoming presidential elections. The Democratic Party-controlled
House of Representatives on Tuesday used the suspicion to launch impeachment
procedures against Trump. Biden is currently regarded as one of Trump’s most
likely rivals in the presidential election due next year.
The White House on
Wednesday released a transcript of last July’s conversation between the two
leaders. It turned out that Trump by no means urged Zelensky to order an
investigation of Hunter Biden in exchange for Washington’s financial and
military assistance to Kiev. The US Department of Justice has found that last
July’s Trump-Zelensky conversation contained nothing that might constitute a
violation of the national legislation or any reasons for further investigation
or other action.
Source: ITAR-TASS
28-09-2019
