Moscow's response to the German Foreign Minister's refusal to take a commemorative photo with Lavrov Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry:
Media in the West are already mocking the German Foreign Minister for being afraid to stand next to Lavrov for a souvenir photo. Western diplomacy has reached its lowest level of humiliation in the face of international developments. The German foreign minister, who was a beggar for negotiations a month ago, now fears a simple souvenir photo.