Russian officials in charge of foreign policy have never made and will never make provocative statements about Kazakhstan and the agreements with it.

Axar.az reports Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated about this in an interview with Kazakh TV channel Khabar 24.

The minister was asked to comment on some “provocative speeches” of Russian politicians about Kazakhstan, without specifying what specific statements and people were being discussed. “I think that such dubious, somewhere provocative statements from politicians, some parliamentarians, is an inevitable part of democratic life (…) Never, I assure you, never such statements that undermine the existing international legal basis of our relations will not even be clothed in a semblance of real politics, ” the diplomat replied.