The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Netherlands admitted that he lied about meeting with Putin in 2006 The foreign Minister of the Netherlands Halbe Zijlstra admitted that he lied about meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2006. This was stated on Monday the Minister who worked at that time in the company Shell, whose words are quoted by the newspaper De Volkskrant. Previously, Zijlstra said that he was present at the meeting at Putin’s dacha, during which the Russian leader allegedly said that he considers Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic States as part of the “great Russia”. In his statement, the Minister admitted that he was not at the meeting, and was in the next room and heard this story told by someone else as a joke. “I decided that this is an important geopolitical story that can have serious consequences, he said. — So I decided to
