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FILE PHOTO: Britain s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wears a protective mask during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Brussels, Belgium April 14, 2021. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool
LONDON (Reuters) -The Group of Seven richest countries will look at a proposal to build a rapid response mechanism to counter Russian propaganda and disinformation, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Reuters.
Speaking ahead of a G7 foreign ministers meeting in London, the first such in-person meeting for two years, Raab said the United Kingdom was getting the G7 to come together with a rapid rebuttal mechanism to counter Russian misinformation.
The Group of Seven richest countries will look at a proposal to build a rapid response mechanism to counter Russian "propaganda" and disinformation, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Reuters.
Moscow denies it is meddling beyond its borders and says the West is gripped by anti-Russian hysteria. It s time to think of why the countries that are sick to the core with propaganda, and which used it more than once to justify armed intervention and toppling of governments … accuse our country of their own sins, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on social media.
China says the West is a bully and that its leaders have a post-imperial mindset that makes them feel they can act like global policemen.
Britain has identified Russia as the biggest threat to its security, although it regards China as its greatest long-term challenge, militarily, economically and technologically.