Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi took to the UN podium wearing a Russian brooch. Photo: press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi addressed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the UN General Assembly. She was wearing a pink blouse and a big black brooch. The same one that our minister gave him in August.
Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote about this extraordinary situation. At the end of July in Laos, Marsudi and Lavrov met on the sidelines of the ASEAN Council of Foreign Ministers. As she approached the room where the negotiations would take place, the Indonesian drew attention to the brooch of the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova.
A request was immediately made: “Can you give me the same?” Lavrov responded positively. Zakharova personally chose the gift for Marsudi in Moscow. As a result, it was decided to give two brooches in the shape of a red and black flower. Russian production.
“Precisely in the case when the phrase ‘first of all, it is beautiful’ is the most appropriate,” Zakharova commented especially for Komsomolskaya Pravda about Marsudi’s decision to bring a gift from Lavrov in her speech from the rostrum of the General Assembly of the UN.
