PARIS/LONDON, May 7 — The United States and most European Union nations will boycott a Kremlin ceremony to swear in Vladimir Putin for a new six-year term as president on...
Russia n President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government in Moscow, Russia May 6, 2024. — Sputnik/Alexander Astafyev/Kremlin via Reuters picPARIS/LONDON, May 7 — The United States and most European Union nations will boycott a Kremlin ceremony to swear in Vladimir Putin for a new six-year term as president on Tuesday, but France and some other EU states were expected to send an envoy despite a plea by Kyiv.
Britan and Canada said they would not send anyone to attend the ceremony, which comes a day after Russia on Monday announced it would hold tactical nuclear weapons drills that it said it hoped would cool down “hotheads” in the West.Putin won a landslide victory in a presidential election in March just weeks after his most prominent opponent, Alexei Navalny, died in jail. Western governments condemned the re-election as unfair and undemocratic.
An EU spokesperson said the bloc’s ambassador to Russia would not attend the ceremony, in keeping with the position of most of the bloc’s member states. The source said France had previously condemned the context of repression in which the election was held, depriving voters of a real choice, as well as the organisation of elections in Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia, which France considers a violation of international law and the United Nations Charter.
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