Snowden has right to fly in any direction - Foreign Minister
MOSCOW. June 26 (Interfax) - The Russian authorities have no grievances to former CIS employee Edward Snowden, he can freely fly from Moscow airport to any country on the globe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
"I cannot add anything to what President Vladimir Putin said and I said yesterday at a press conference following talks with my Algerian colleague. We proceed from the notion that Mr. Snowden, as the Russian president stressed, is a free man. We have no legal claims to make to him," Lavrov said answering a question from the press.
The answer is posed on the Foreign Ministry official website.
"He did not break the laws of the Russian Federation, did not cross the border. He is in the transit zone of the airport and has the right to fly to any direction pleases. And as the president of Russia said, the sooner this happens, the better," Lavrov said.