Austrian ex-Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl is currently attending the Eastern Economic Forum in the Russian city of Vladivostok. There she again complained about the ill-treatment in her home country, which forced her to emigrate. She jumped into Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskow, who spoke of a “hunt for Kneissl”. The ex-politician also explained why she did not move to Russia but to Lebanon.
“I couldn’t move to Russia, although I speak a little Russian,” Kneissl said on the fringe of the economic forum. But she speaks better Arabic, knows Lebanon and has friends there who only know her as “Karin”. That is very important, said the Austrian foreign minister between 2017 and 2019, who was also a member of the supervisory board of the Russian Rosneft group after the end of her political career.
“Outside the Law”
She was “out of the law” in her home country and left Europe for not participating in “this peculiar communication,” Kneissl said, according to Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency. She pays a high price for this. What “communication” was specifically termed as remained open in Russian media reports.
The Russian government has a negative view of the “hunt for Kneissl” and considers it an “indicator of an unhealthy society,” Kremlin spokesman Peskov said. Kneissl will participate in a discussion on Tuesday about a Russian export route in the Arctic Ocean. Peskow did not want to rule out Monday that President Vladimir Putin and Kneissl would also meet on site.
Conversation with Putin possible
“That is not on the president’s agenda for the time being. If necessary, a conversation can take place,” Peskov responded to questions from journalists about a possible meeting between Putin and the Austrian. In any case, the Russian president himself will give a speech at the Eastern Economic Forum on Wednesday.
Source: Krone
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