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Lavrov

lines on the record: 2,533
first: 1994-09-23
most recent: 2023-09-20
sittings or episodes: 322
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“Therefore, today it is not a question of submitting to some rules-based world order, but of fulfilling all the obligations we assumed when signing and ratifying the Charter of the United Nations in their integral and interconnected nature.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“To start with, everyone needs to recognize their responsibility for the fate of our Organization and for the fate of the world, based on historical context, rather than guided by parochial, short-sighted arrangements for the upcoming national elections of some Member State. Let me recall once again: nearly 80 years ago, having signed the Charter of the United Nations, world leaders agreed to respect the sovereign equality of all States — large and small, rich and poor, monarchies and republics. In other words, even then, humankind recognized the need for an equitable, polycentric world order as a guarantee for the sustainability and security of its development.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“It is also important that sanctions regimes adopted by the Security Council be time-bound, as their open- ended nature deprives the Council of flexibility in influencing the policies of the sanctioned Governments. The so-called humanitarian limits of sanctions must also be considered. It would only be right that any draft resolutions on sanctions introduced to the Security Council should be accompanied by assessments of their consequences for civilians by United Nations humanitarian agencies, rather than by demagogic exhortations by Western colleagues that “ordinary people will not suffer”. Evidence suggests that there is a deep crisis in international relations and the West’s lack of desire and will to redress the situation. However, I hope that a way out of this situation exists and will be found.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Another egregious example of that is the decision just adopted by the national legislative bodies of Berlin, Paris and London to extend restrictions against Iran that were set to expire in October, and which are subject to a legal termination, in accordance with resolution 2231 (2015). In other words, European countries and Great Britain declare that , the Security Council ruling is no longer valid, but that makes no difference to them, because they make their own rules. This makes it all the more relevant to consider making it a rule that, after the Council adopts any sanctions resolution, no State Member of the United Nations would have the right to devalue it by introducing their own illegitimate restrictions against that same country.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Why should the General Assembly not consider the reasons for that, for example, with regard to the Security Council resolutions on Palestine, the whole range of issues related to the Middle East and North Africa, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and, naturally, resolution 2202 (2015), which approved the Minsk Agreements on Ukraine? The issue of sanctions regimes is also worthy of attention. It is now the norm: the Security Council, after protracted negotiations, in strict compliance with the Charter of the United Nations, adopts sanctions against a particular country, and then the United States and its allies impose against the same State additional unilateral restrictions, which were not approved by the Council and are not included in its resolution as part of the agreed upon package.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Besides, the use of the veto is an absolutely legitimate instrument provided for in the Charter of the United Nations to prevent the adoption of decisions that coulod potentially divide the Organization. But since there is a procedure for discussions in the General Assembly on the use of the veto, why not also consider why Security Council resolutions that were adopted without a veto, including those that were adopted many years ago, are not being implemented despite the provisions of Article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Speaking of the principles of the Charter, there is a question regarding the relationship between the Security Council and the General Assembly. For a while now, the team of Western States has been aggressively peddling the theme of the abuse of the veto right and, by quite improperly pressuring other States Members of the United Nations, have managed to secure the decision that, after each exercise of veto, the General Assembly will consider the matter. That is not a problem for us at all, because Russia is open about its approaches to all agenda items, we have nothing to hide, and it is not difficult for us to expound on our positions yet again.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Its opening invocation of ‘We the peoples’ reflects the fundamental source of legitimate authority: the consent of the governed.” It is useful to compare that premise with the track record of the Kyiv regime, which unleashed a war against a huge part of its own people —against those millions who did not consent to be governed by neo- Nazis and Russophobes who have illegitimately seized power and buried the Security Council-approved Minsk agreements, thereby undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Those who, contrary to the Charter of United Nations, divide humankind into democracies and autocracies better try to respond to the question of which category they place the Ukrainian regime in. I will not wait for an answer.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“According to him, had it not been for the war, that would have taken years, and now there is a need and the chance to do so without respect for any criteria. Serbia, Türkiye and others can wait, but the Nazis can skip the queue to enter the ranks of the EU. Incidentally, at the same Summit for Democracy, the Secretary-General proclaimed: “Democracy flows from the United Nations Charter.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“That in and of itself affirms the entrenched nature of the colonialist mentality and the attitude of its initiators to the principle of “effective multilateralism” that is on our agenda today. In parallel we saw the propagation of a narrative about the European Union as the ideal of that very multilateralism. Now there are calls from Brussels to expand the membership of the EU as soon as possible to include specifically the Balkan countries. The loftiest statements, however, are not about Serbia or Türkiye, which have been in hopeless talks about their entry for decades now, but rather about Ukraine. Josep Borrell Fontelles, who seemingly aspires to be the chief ideologist of European integration, recently said that the Kyiv regime should become a member of the EU as soon as possible.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“It is noteworthy that all those statements were made at the so-called summit for democracy convened by President Biden outside the United Nations framework, whose participants were selected by the United States Administration on the principle of loyalty — loyalty not so much to Washington but to the ruling Democratic party in the United States. Attempts to use such forums among allies to discuss global issues are a direct contravention of Article 1, paragraph 4 of the Charter, which enshrines the importance of ensuring the role of the Organization as “a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends”. Contrary to that principle, many years ago France and Germany proclaimed a so-called alliance of multilateralists, to which once again only the obedient were invited.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“In that regard, we have serious questions about the Secretary-General’s remarks on 29 March that “autocratic leadership is not a guarantor of stability; it is a catalyst of chaos and conflict”, [while] “strong democratic societies are places that are capable of self-correction — and self-improvement. They can enable change — even radical change — without bloodshed and violence”. One cannot help recalling the so-called changes brought about by the aggressive ventures of such so- called strong democracies in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and many other countries. António Guterres went on to say that democracies “are centres for broad-based cooperation, rooted in the principles of equality, participation and solidarity”.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“In that connection, I would like to remind the Council that it is not only Member States but also the Secretariat of our Organization that is required to strictly comply with the Charter. In accordance with its Article 100, the Secretariat is obliged to act impartially and shall not receive instructions from any Government. We have already mentioned Article 2, and I want to draw attention to its key paragraph 1, which says, “The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members”. The General Assembly, building on that principle, reaffirmed in the Declaration of 1970, which I cited earlier, that “every State has an inalienable right to choose its political, economic, social and cultural systems, without interference in any form by another State”.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“That is pure neocolonialism, scorning the sovereign equality of States and the work of “upholding the principles of the Charter of the United Nations through effective multilateralism” that is the subject of our debate today. In an effort to prevent the democratization of international relations, the United States and its allies are ever more openly and unceremoniously privatizing the secretariats of international organizations, circumventing established procedures in order to push through decisions creating mechanisms under their control and mandates that lack consensus while claiming the right to blame anyone whom Washington does not like for whatever reason.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“As we can all see once again today, the reason for the arrogant position of the United States and its allies is their unwillingness to have any kind of dialogue on an equal footing with anyone. If NATO had not rejected the CSTO’s proposals for cooperation, it might have been possible to avoid the many negative processes that led to the current European crisis, resulting from the fact that Russia has been either ignored or deceived for decades. Today, when at the proposal of the Council presidency we are discussing “effective multilateralism”, we should not forget the numerous instances of the West’s ingrained rejection of any form of equitable cooperation. Consider Josep Borrell Fontelles’ pearl of wisdom that Europe is a flourishing garden surrounded by jungles.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“In line with that principle, Russia, together with its allies, has consistently advocated for establishing contacts between the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and NATO in order to facilitate the practical implementation of the decisions I just mentioned of the OSCE summits on the indivisibility of security, which stipulate, among other things, that “no State, group of States or organization can have any pre-eminent responsibility for maintaining peace and stability in the OSCE area or can consider any part of the OSCE area as its sphere of influence”. We all know that that was exactly what NATO was doing, attempting to establish its total superiority in Europe and now in the Asia-Pacific region. However, numerous appeals from the CSTO’s highest bodies to NATO were ignored.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Having disrupted their implementation, the West bears direct responsibility for the collapse of Ukraine and for inciting civil war there. Among other Charter principles where respect for them could have prevented the security crisis in Europe and helped to agree on confidence-building measures on the basis of a balance of interests, I would point to Article 52 of Chapter VIII, which enshrines the importance of developing the practice of peacefully settling disputes with the help of regional organizations.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“We get the definite impression that Western representatives fear professional discussions that would expose their demagoguery. While uttering incantations about Ukraine’s territorial integrity, the former colonial centres of empire are silent about the United Nations resolutions on the need for Paris to return the so-called French island of Mayotte to the Union of the Comoros or for London to withdraw from the Chagos archipelago and begin talks with Buenos Aires on the Malvinas Islands. Those so-called champions of Ukraine’s territorial integrity now act as if they do not remember the aim of the Minsk agreements, which — I will remind them, concluded with the reunification of Donbas and Ukraine while guaranteeing respect for fundamental human rights, and above all the right to one’s mother tongue.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“I would like to remind the Secretary of State that President Zelenskyy has signed a decree prohibiting the conduct of negotiations with Mr. Putin’s Government. If the United States is so interested in negotiations, I think that it would not be very difficult to give the order that Zelenskyy’s decree be lifted. In our opponents’ rhetoric today we have heard only slogans about invasion, aggression and annexation, but not a word about the root causes of the problem or the years spent nurturing an openly Nazi regime that blatantly rewrote the outcomes of the Second World War and the history of its own people. The West has avoided any substantive discussion based on facts and respect for all the requirements of the Charter. It clearly has no arguments for an honest dialogue.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“And since 2015 we have insisted on seeing the unconditional implementation of the Minsk agreements, which were concluded as a result of negotiations. All of that was done in full compliance with the Charter of the United Nations, which requires the establishment of: “conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained”. Our Western colleagues were trampling on that principle too when they signed all those documents while fully aware that they had no intention of complying with them. Speaking of negotiations, we are willing to have them even now, and President Putin has talked about that repeatedly, including very recently.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“That declaration was also endorsed by the Security Council and subject to implementation in accordance with Article 25. However, that obligation undertaken by Germany and France’s leaders was also an empty promise and yet another violation of the principles of the Charter. Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Union’s legendary Minister for Foreign Affairs, repeatedly pointed out that 10 years of negotiations were better than one day of war. Following that precept, we negotiated for years to reach agreements on European security, we approved the NATO-Russia Founding Act and adopted at the highest level the 1999 and 2010 declarations of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the indivisibility of security.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“I would like to remind the Council that in the Minsk agreement package the leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine signed a declaration in which Berlin and Paris pledged to do a great deal, including helping to restore the banking system in Donbas, but did not lift a finger. They merely stood by and watched as, contrary to all those obligations, Poroshenko announced a trade, economic and transport blockade of Donbas. In the same declaration, Berlin and Paris pledged to help strengthen the European Union-Russia- Ukraine trilateral agreement in order to find a practical solution to trade issues of concern to Russia, and also to promote the establishment of “a joint humanitarian and economic space from the Atlantic to the Pacific”.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Putin — I am referring to Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko — publicly, and even joyfully admitted, that, when they signed the document, they had no intention of implementing it. They were simply looking to play for time in order to strengthen Ukraine’s military capability and pump it full of weapons to be used against Russia. For all these years the EU and NATO have directly supported the sabotage of the Minsk agreements and pushed the Kyiv regime to use force to solve the so-called Donbas problem. That has all been done in violation of Article 25 of the Charter, according to which all members of the United Nations are obliged to “accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council”.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“High-ranking officials have officially declared that the spread of information about the possibility for local students to take Russian remote-learning programmes should be considered as a virtual threat to national security, which must be addressed by law enforcement agencies. Returning to Ukraine, the conclusions of the February 2015 Minsk agreements were endorsed by a special Security Council resolution, resolution 2202 (2015), in full compliance with Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Charter, which supports “any procedures for the settlement of the dispute which have already been adopted by the parties.” In this case, it concerned Kyiv and the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. However, last year, all the signatories of the Minsk agreements, except for Mr.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Are they familiar with the statements made by the Ukrainian leadership in terms of what they intend to do with the residents of the territories concerned. At the official level, threats have been repeatedly made concerning their physical or legal annihilation. The West has not been only refraining from deterring its protégés in Kyiv, but has been encouraging such racist policies. Incidentally, in the same manner, EU and NATO members have for decades encouraged the actions of Latvia and Estonia in stripping the rights of hundreds of thousands of Russian-speaking residents, who have been designated as non-citizens. Now they are seriously discussing criminalizing the use of their native language.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“The adoption of racist laws banning everything Russian — education, media, culture — the destruction of books and monuments, the banning of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the seizure of its property that followed the coup d’état during the years of Poroshenko’s and then Zelenskyy’s rule was a defiant violation of Article 1, paragraph 3, of the Charter on respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, gender, language or religion. It goes without saying that those actions directly contravened the Constitution of Ukraine, which sets forth the State’s obligation to respect the rights of Russian and other national minorities. When we hear calls for the implementation of the peace formula to return Ukraine to the 1991 borders, the question arises as to who is calling for that?”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“The fact that the Ukrainian neo-Nazis who seized power in Kyiv in a coup d’état did not represent the population of Crimea and Donbas requires no proof. And the unconditional support of Western capitals for the actions of the criminal regime in Kyiv is nothing less than a violation of the principle of self- determination, following a gross interference in internal affairs.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Western diplomats and politicians are turning a blind eye to this important norm of international law with regard to Ukraine in an effort to reduce the entire background and essence of what is happening to the inadmissibility of violating territorial integrity. In that regard, I would like to recall the 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, adopted by consensus, enshrines the tenet that the principle of respect for territorial integrity is applicable to: “States conducting themselves in compliance with the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples... and thus possessed of a government representing the whole people belonging to the territory” (General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV)).”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“The principle of non-interference in internal affairs had been repeatedly trampled on. Immediately after the coup, the putschists announced that their top priority was to suppress the rights of the Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine. And the residents of Crimea and the south-east of the country who refused to accept the results of the anti-constitutional seizure of power were declared terrorists. A punitive operation was launched against them. In response, Crimea and Donbas held referendums on their independence, in full compliance with the principle of the equality and self-determination of peoples, as enshrined in Article 1, paragraph 2, of the Charter.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“At that time, a slew of Western leaders directly encouraged participants in anti-government demonstrations to engage in acts of violence. Victoria Nuland herself discussed with the United States ambassador to Kyiv the composition of the future Government, which would be shaped by the putschists. At the same time, she pointed out to the European Union (EU) its real place in world politics, as Washington sees it. We all remember her obscene two-word curse. Notably, the European Union decided to let it pass. In February 2014, the actors chosen by the United States became key participants in the brutal coup organized — I will recall — one day after the agreement reached through the mediation efforts of Germany, Poland and France between the legitimately elected President of Ukraine, Mr. Yanukovych, and the opposition leaders.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Therefore, the topic of today’s meeting, proposed by the Albanian presidency, is very fitting, as it enables us to re-establish the chronology of events, specifically with regard to the relations among the main actors responsible for the implementation of the purposes and principles of the Charter. During the period from 2004 to 2005, in order to bring a pro-American candidate to power, the West authorized the first coup d’état in Kyiv, forcing the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to adopt the unlawful decision to hold a third round of elections, not provided for by country’s Constitution. Even more cavalier interference in its internal affairs was demonstrated during the second Maidan coup from 2013 to 2014.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of independent States in its place, the United States of America and its allies have egregiously and openly interfered in Ukraine’s internal affairs. As United States Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland publicly and even proudly admitted, at the end of 2013, Washington had spent $5 billion on cultivating Kyiv politicians loyal to the West. All the facts pertaining to the engineering of the Ukrainian crisis have long been known, but they are trying to silence them in every possible way and suppress the narrative leading up to 2014.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“The West today selectively refers to the Charter’s norms and principles on a selective case-by-case basis, strictly in line with its parochial geopolitical interests. That has inevitably led to undermining global stability, exacerbating existing tensions and igniting new ones. The risks of global conflict have also increased. In order to manage and resolve events peacefully, Russia urges that all the provisions of the Charter be respected and applied not only in a non-selective manner, but holistically, including the principles of the sovereign equality of States, non-interference in their internal affairs, respect for their territorial integrity and the right of peoples to self-determination. The actions of the United States and its allies demonstrate a systematic violation of the balance of obligations enshrined in the Charter.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“Mr. Lavrov (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The existing international order was built on the ruins, and following the colossal tragedy, of the Second World War. Its foundation was the Charter of the United Nations, the cornerstone of modern international law. Thanks mostly to the United Nations, a subsequent world war that could have ended in nuclear catastrophe was averted. Unfortunately, after the end of the cold war, the collective West, led by the United States, single-handedly designated itself as the master of the destiny of all humankind and, driven by its exceptionalism complex, began to increasingly disregard the legacy of the United Nations founding fathers.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source
“We have presented a massive body of facts that show how Ukraine was preparing to play the anti-Russia role and act as a staging ground for creating and executing threats against Russian security. I can assure everyone that we will never allow that to happen.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Incidentally, more than 3,000 reports of crimes against residents of Donbas have been sent to the Court, and there has been no reaction. The leadership of this so-called judicial body has now clearly received the order from above to turn up the heat. We no longer have any confidence in it. We have been waiting in vain for eight long years to see the fight against impunity begin in Ukraine, and we no longer count on seeing justice from the Court or a number of other international institutions. The time for expectations is over. Everything I have said today confirms once again that the decision to launch the special military operation was inevitable, as we have discussed more than once.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“I believe it would help everyone to get to the bottom of that episode. Of course, we have also noticed the increased activity of international justice with regard to Ukraine. Various so-called efforts are being touted to investigate crimes committed in Ukraine and ascribed to the Russian military. We can see very well that that is all being done to order. I want to point out once again that neither the bloody coup d’état of 2014, nor the tragedy in Odesa on 2 May of the same year, nor the shelling of peaceful towns in Donbas, nor the bombing of Luhansk by the Ukrainian air force on 2 June 2014, or many other crimes — none of them have led to any kind of discernible reaction from the International Criminal Court.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“I want to draw the Council’s attention to the fact that immediately after that staged event, our Western colleagues had went hysterical and introduced a new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation and falsely accused us of killing innocent civilians. Once this had produced its propagandistic effect, the only people who have mentioned Bucha since then are us. In the presence of the Secretary-General and Foreign Ministers of the world, I ask everyone to request that the Ukrainian authorities take the simple step of publishing the names of the people whose bodies were shown in Bucha. I have been asking for that for several months now. No one is listening, and no one wants to respond. I would like to ask the Secretary-General to please use his authority for that purpose.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“More than 220 people, including representatives of the high command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and military unit commanders, have been found to be complicit in shooting innocent civilians. We are conducting criminal investigations into citizens from Great Britain, Canada, the United States and the Netherlands for working as mercenaries and committing crimes in Ukraine. I can promise that regardless of their nationality, all perpetrators will be brought to justice. Once again, I want to draw Council members’ attention to the fact that at the end of March, a few days after Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Istanbul had practically reached an agreement on Kyiv’s proposed parameters for a settlement, the tragedy in Bucha occurred. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that it was staged.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“There is ample evidence of their ill-treatment, including extrajudicial killings, in violation of international humanitarian law. I am sure that anyone interested in the reality of what is going on in Ukraine has seen the video of the Ukrainian Nazis’ extrajudicial killing of Russian prisoners of war being thrown to the ground with their hands tied behind their backs and shot in the head. Has anyone from the countries represented here commented in any way on that crime? We have a great amount of evidence of those and other criminal acts of the Kyiv regime, which have been happening since 2014. Russia’s law-enforcement bodies, in concert with their colleagues from the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, are thoroughly establishing and investigating the facts of those crimes.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“I should point out that the IAEA mission’s visit to the plant was artificially delayed even though by 3 June all the details of the visit had already been agreed on and the mission could easily have set off. Then a very unseemly situation developed when the United Nations Department of Safety and Security refused to okay the itinerary that Russia and the Agency had agreed on. It subsequently announced that the IAEA would define all the parameters of its mission independently. That somewhat underhand ploy delayed the Agency’s visit to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant for almost three months. We are also very concerned about the fate of Russian soldiers who have fallen into the hands of Ukrainian nationalists.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Even the Western human rights organization Amnesty International, which can hardly be suspected of being sympathetic to Russia, has been severely criticized and branded an agent of the Kremlin merely because in its report it confirmed the well-known fact that Kyiv is establishing combat points and deploying heavy weapons at civilian sites. The criminal shelling by the Kyiv regime’s militants of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant also continues to go unpunished, creating the risk of a nuclear disaster, despite the fact that representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been continually present at the plant since 1 September and that it is not hard to identify the party responsible for the shelling.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Such outrages have become possible and continue to go unpunished because for the past eight years the United States and its allies, with the connivance of international human rights institutions, have been systematically covering up the crimes of the Kyiv regime, based on the well-known American principle that “while of course Mr. Zelenskyy may be a son of a bitch, he is our son of a bitch”. The inconvenient truth tarnishing Ukraine’s shiny image as the victim of so-called aggression is assiduously suppressed and sometimes openly erased.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Their accuracy is exactly what we need.” And yet no military or strategic targets were hit in the towns that were shelled. It is the civilians of Donbas who are suffering. The Ukrainian forces have been remotely mining the centre of Donetsk and its environs with banned “petal” anti-personnel mines since the end of July. Their use is a gross violation of the 1997 Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention, which Ukraine ratified, as well as Protocol II to the Geneva Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which bans non-self- destructing mines.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“In real time and using modern systems, planes, ships, satellites and strategic drones, NATO is supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine with intelligence, goading them to believe that Russia should be crushed on the battlefield — official representatives of the European Union have openly and publictly stated that — and stripped of sovereignty as punishment. That is no longer latent racism — it is overt racism. Against a backdrop of the massive shelling of settlements in the Donbas, Mr. Zelenskyy rejoices in the effectiveness of Western weapons. The cynicism of the leader of that State entity is apparent in a recent remark. “At last we are feeling the power of Western artillery, the weapons we have received from our partners.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“The goal is obvious, and they make no secret of it — to prolong the hostilities as long as possible, despite the victims and destruction, in order to exhaust and weaken Russia. Through that approach the Western countries are directly involving themselves in the Ukrainian conflict and becoming party to it. The collective West’s deliberate fomenting of the conflict has also gone unpunished. And of course the West will not punish itself. We have no illusions about the fact that Russia’s armed forces and the militias of the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics are opposed not only by the neo-Nazi formations of the Kyiv regime but also the war machine of the collective West, as I said.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Elena Berezhnaya, a prominent Ukrainian activist who has often spoken at the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the growth of neo-Nazism in Ukraine, is languishing in the dungeons of the Ukrainian security services. Ukraine has unquestionably become a completely totalitarian State in the Nazi mode, where the norms of international humanitarian law are flouted with impunity. It is not surprising that the Ukrainian armed forces and nationalist battalions are employing terrorist tactics and using civilians as human shields. Against that backdrop, the position of the States that are pumping weapons and military equipment into Ukraine and training its armed forces is particularly cynical.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Go to Russia, he said, and I think the decisions that the residents of a number of Ukrainian regions have taken to hold referendums are a response to his wishes. Under the guise of combating so-called Russian aggression and separatism, Ukraine is stepping up its persecution of dissidents. In March, 11 political parties were banned on a pretext of their so-called ties to Russia. The leading Russian-language opposition television channels were shut down long ago, and websites that the Government objects to are blocked. Journalists are being persecuted for attempting to present alternatives to the official view. Ms.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Danilov stated: “In towns where the Ukrainian armed forces enter, residents will undergo Ukrainization without consideration of their views. This will apply to representatives of other nationalities as well as Russian. If you want to study in any other languages, such as Romanian, Polish or Hebrew, do so by all means, but not at the expense of our State. You can improve your education at your own expense.” Needless to say, all those Russophobic assertions have gone entirely unpunished. And we are not talking about just Russophobia, as he was referring to representatives of other ethnic groups living in Ukraine. Of course, the ultimate was an interview on 5 August of last year with Mr. Zelenskyy, in which he advised all who feel that they are Russian to get out and go to Russia for the sake of their children and grandchildren.”
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“Today officials from Ukraine no longer try to hide their Nazi sentiments; they openly and with full impunity call for the killing of Russians. To give just a few examples, Mr. Vrublevsky, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Kazakhstan, who is now in Kyiv, just one month ago declared in an interview: “We are trying to kill as many Russians as possible. The more we kill today, the fewer our children will need to kill. That’s it.” Did anyone notice that statement? In April, the mayor of Dnipro, Mr. Filatov, said something similar: “The time of cold rage has come. Now we have a full moral right to calmly and with a clear mind to kill these non-humans around the world — as long as possible and as many as possible.” On 13 September of this year Mr.”
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