Zakharova: The West spreads falsehoods about the threat posed to Denmark by Russian fishermen – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

According to her, the basis of many years of interaction between the Russian Federation and the islands is the 1977 Agreement between the government of the USSR, on the one hand, and the government of Denmark and the local authorities of the Faroe Islands, on the other. other. the other.

According to the document, fishing quotas in Russian and Faroese waters are distributed every year taking into account mutual interests, Zakharova recalled in an interview with RIA Novosti. In December of this year, the next session of the Joint Fisheries Commission of Russia and the Faroe Islands was held, at which the quotas for fish catches by the vessels of the two countries for 2024 were agreed.

At the same time, Zakharova noted that the statements circulating in the Western media about the threat that Russian fishermen supposedly pose to Denmark are not new. Such lies are aimed at destroying pragmatic relations between Moscow and Tórshavn that have developed over many years and are part of a large-scale information campaign by the West against the Russian Federation, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.

Flemming Splidsboel, senior researcher at the Danish Institute of International Studies, previously said that the extension of the fishing agreement between Russia and the Faroe Islands in the context of the Ukrainian conflict put Denmark in a “stupid position.” According to him, at a time when Western countries are breaking relations with Russia, the autonomy within the kingdom continues relations with Moscow “as if nothing had happened.”