Paulo Rangel stated, “I should neither comment nor should I comment on the President of the Republic’s declarations,” when questioned about Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s statement last Wednesday, referring to the U.S. counterpart Donald Trump as a “Soviet asset.”
The Foreign Minister emphasized that “the definition of Portuguese foreign policy is the responsibility of the Government.”
“This is how our international partners, all of them, should understand the relationship with Portugal. Given this context, I believe no further comment is necessary,” he added, during a meeting of foreign ministers of European Union (EU) countries, as part of the Danish presidency of the EU Council, in Copenhagen.
On Wednesday, the Portuguese head of state remarked that the U.S. leader functions as a “Soviet asset.”
Speaking at the ‘PSD Summer University,’ a youth training initiative held in Castelo de Vide (Portalegre), the President discussed the new geopolitical balance and described something “peculiar and complex” about Donald Trump.
“The top leader of the world’s largest superpower is objectively a Soviet, or Russian, asset. He functions as an asset,” he declared.
The President underlined that the relationship between Republican Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is not “an alliance based on friendship, economic complicity, ideological or doctrinal ties.”
“I am stating that, objectively, the new American leadership has strategically favored the Russian Federation,” he asserted.
