
Moscow - Russia reiterated today the calls for unity and a united front in the fight against international terrorism, following the massacre in Nice, southern France, where another terrorist attack killed 84 people, with over 150 wounded.
According to preliminary information from the Union of the Tourism Industry, a Russian tourist died and another received wounds during the attack. The representative Irina Tyurina said the Russian diplomatic authorities verified that information.
In a comment on her Facebook wall, the official spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, expressed condolences to the French people and to the families of the victims, and called to join in the fight against terrorists.
We will fight together, not against hybrid threats but real ones. It is time to put aside our differences and join in the face of tragedies like the massacre in Nice, said Zakharova.
From Mongolia, during the opening of the Eurasia Cooperation Forum, Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev expressed that the tragedy in French forced to find collective responses to such threats and challenges from international terrorism.
After the attack in Nice, the international community must react to such challenges in a joint manner, said Medvedev after expressing condolences to the French people.
In Moscow, hundreds of Muscovites went to the French Embassy since dawn to place flowers and lit candles in demonstration of solidarity for the victims of yesterday's terrorist attack, during the celebrations of Bastille Day, a national holiday.
