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Nebenzia

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first: 2017-08-02
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“Another factor complicating the humanitarian situation in the country is the ongoing occupation of the resource-rich Trans-Euphrates by the United States. This glaring violation of international law does not bother Washington, which is accustomed to lecturing others. On 4 March, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Armed Forces Mark Milley, accompanied by journalists, paid a visit to the Rumeilan American base in north-eastern Syria, showing once again that abiding by the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria is not part of the United States’ plans. Since Syria is pursuing an independent policy, the United States and its satellites deny it the right to develop independently.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“I would like to recall that in addition to receiving international humanitarian flights, that airport is also used by the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service to transport all necessary humanitarian supplies, including medicines, to the rest of the country. Because of those Israeli strikes, aircraft arriving from third countries have to be rerouted to airports in Damascus and Latakia for some time. Humanitarian aid was then transported from those areas by road to the same province of Aleppo. Against the backdrop of the growing fuel crisis in what was once a self-sufficient country, including in oil resources, such additional costs have dealt a serious blow to the logistical capabilities of humanitarian workers, while the needs of the population continue to increase.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“Pedersen’s work to resume regular meetings of the Constitutional Committee, without any linkage to a specific location. We believe that principled decisions on the modalities for future rounds of intra-Syrian consultations should be taken by the Syrians themselves. The humanitarian situation in and around the Syrian Arab Republic is determined to a large extent by the consequences of the earthquake that occurred on 6 February. Regrettably, there have been reports this month that Israel repeatedly inflicted additional damage that compounded the humanitarian situation. On 7 and 22 March, Israeli fighter jets fired missiles at the Aleppo international airport, which is the closest airport to the areas hardest hit by the earthquake, along the Syrian-Turkish border.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Acting Director Talahma for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Syria. We have consistently supported the Special Envoy’s mediation efforts to promote a Syrian-led and Syrian- owned settlement that is based on resolution 2254 (2015), while respecting the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria, without external interference. In that regard, we believe it is important for the Special Envoy to adhere strictly to the mandate established by the Security Council, which has at its core the promotion of intra-Syrian dialogue, including within the framework of the Constitutional Committee. In that regard, we note Mr.”
2023-03-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9291 (2023) · source
“By all indications, the ICC has indeed gone down a path towards self-destruction, above all where its international authority and credibility are concerned. We are not alone in that opinion. Allow me to end with a surprising quote from John Bolton, former United States National Security Advisor, in 2018: “We will let the ICC die on its own. After all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead”.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“In conclusion, with regard to the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) that has been mentioned here today, that biased, politicized, incompetent international judicial body has once again demonstrated its flawed nature. The ICC is a puppet in the hands of the collective West, always ready and willing to deliver pseudo-justice to order. It is particularly cynical that the legally null decision was unveiled on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Iraq, where the ICC had jurisdiction but did absolutely nothing to hold the perpetrators to account. The Russian Federation is not a party to the Rome statute and the ICC has no jurisdiction over Russia or its citizens. We consider any documents issued by it to be legally null and void.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“In that connection, on 13 March, pursuant to paragraph H of the tripartite agreement, we officially notified the Turkish and Ukrainian parties that we do not object to the extension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative operations for 60 days from 18 March, that is, until 18 May. Further steps will depend on progress in resolving the issues we have identified. Finally, if Washington, Brussels and London genuinely desire the continuation of food exports from Ukraine along the maritime humanitarian corridor in their interests, they have two months to exempt from their sanctions, with the assistance of the United Nations, the entire chain of operations supporting Russian agricultural exports. If not, we fail to understand how the Secretary-General’s package concept within the framework of the Istanbul agreements will be able to function.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“No one cares about the fact that it is extremely beneficial for developing countries. At the end of the day, the United Nations, via the Secretary-General’s spokesperson, had to admit that the Organization does not have the leverage to exempt Russian agricultural export operations from Western sanctions. I want to emphasize once again that the situation is having a negative impact not on Russia, whose economy is developing steadily in spite of our adversaries, but on the developing world. Given that the concerns expressed by our Western colleagues about it are mere empty words and that the persistent efforts of the Secretary-General have been fruitless, we will not put up with it either.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“In the past 10 years, the area that is now under foreign control is now more than 4 million hectares, or over 10 per cent of all fertile land in Ukraine. And yet the attempts continue to hide all these processes from the international community behind the traditional mantras of Russian aggression and blaming our country for creating a food crisis and increasing food prices. Of course that is all a complete lie. Even the European Parliament’s resolution of 16 February on the availability of fertilizers in the European Union explicitly states that the high prices in the agricultural sector have been seen for the past two years. However, that has not prevented Brussels from creating additional risks for the food security of poor countries thanks to its new anti-Russian restrictions. The Russia-United Nations memorandum is simply not working.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“We are talking about the so-called big four — the United States companies Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Cargill, and the Dutch Louis Dreyfus Company — which account for 75 to 90 per cent of global trade in the agro-industrial complex. In 2022, Cargill alone saw its sales increase by 23 per cent to $165 billion, with a record net profit of $5 billion. How can we even talk about bonuses for developing countries? By the way, we should not forget that as a result of uncontrolled exports of food from Ukraine, that country is at risk of a real famine, as many experts have said in so many words, and that has nothing to do with Russia. And in that context is another acute issue, which is Western companies’ seizure of chernozem arable land in Ukraine.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Contrary to what has been said today in this Chamber, the world’s poorest countries have received not 66 or 65 per cent of supplies but a mere 3 per cent. More specifically, according to data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, despite the fact that food prices have come down from their record highs at the beginning of last year, they are more than 20 per cent short of their 2021 levels. And depreciating local currencies, including against the backdrop of a stronger United States dollar in 2022, are exacerbating domestic problems in developing countries as well. And who do you think is profiting from the situation? The main beneficiaries of rising food prices and destabilized food supply chains are the giant Western agricultural corporations.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“The second, agreed on between Russia and the United Nations Secretariat, was on promoting the export of Russian foodstuffs and fertilizers to world markets. Our Western colleagues refused point blank to acknowledge the second agreement and avoided any mention of it in Security Council drafts. And it has not been implemented in any way. We and many others also have a lot of questions about the implementation of the so-called Grain Initiative, whose purpose is to facilitate the export of grain from Ukrainian ports. The main question is why a humanitarian initiative suddenly became a commercial one. The statistics are a clear demonstration of that. Its impact on global food prices is also highly controversial.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“In order to end speculation on the issue, which has become a popular subject with Kyiv and Western propagandists, we will be organizing an informal Arria Formula meeting of the Council about it in early April. Many speakers have today touched on the topic of the Black Sea Grain Initiative — more accurately a package deal — whose 60-day extension could be approved tomorrow. I would like to conclude by elaborating on our position on the matter. On 22 July last year, two packages, or interconnected agreements, were signed in Türkiye. One of them — signed by Russia, Türkiye and Ukraine for the export of food and fertilizer through three Black Sea ports — was designed at the time to deal with the immediate humanitarian task of supplying food to starving people all over the world.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“As at 27 February 2023, approximately 4.5 million people, including about 690,000 children, had been evacuated to the territory of the Russian Federation since the start of the special military operation, with the vast majority of the children accompanied to Russia by their parents, relatives or guardians. In that connection, the numerous speculations about the arrival of large numbers of unaccompanied children are puzzling. Throughout our bilateral cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross, we have provided reliable information on the measures we have taken to prevent violations of international humanitarian law where children are concerned.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Preparations are under way to launch and establish a full-fledged international tribunal rooted in international law, not the rules-based order that the States of the collective West are devising based on their own interests. The shots fired at Russian children in Bryansk oblast are a clear example of the Kyiv regime’s attitude to children. Even before the start of the special military operation in February 2022, in view of the Ukrainian authorities’ irresponsible and aggressive policies the leaders of the Donetsk and Luhansk peoples’ republics had decided to evacuate civilians, including children, to Russian Federation territory.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“The documents, maps and other information that he handed over confirm that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have directly coordinated actions on the battlefield with members of United States military and intelligence agencies. That evidence will form the basis for a legal assessment of the degree of involvement and complicity of foreign officials in the crimes perpetrated by the Kyiv regime against the civilian population. Mr. McIntyre recounted the horrific torture of prisoners of war by Ukrainian armed formations. Our opponents, who vividly imagine that Russia is committing war crimes, simply disregard that and other evidence. However, Ukrainian and Western sadists and criminals will not go unpunished. An international public tribunal has already been established in Russia to collect and document witness testimonies.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“If the West is willing to support a regime that commits such egregious acts, then there is probably no crime that the West will not be willing to cover up in its maniacal and vain desire to defeat Russia on the battlefield. In general, we have obtained increasing evidence that Western States are directly involved in the conflict, not only by pumping weapons into Ukraine but also through the direct participation of their military specialists. For example, John McIntyre, a former American soldier who enlisted in Ukraine’s so-called foreign legion and the Carpathian Sich nationalist battalion, gave revealing testimony to Russia’s law enforcement agencies.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“However, the leader of the sabotage group said that the act had been coordinated with the Kyiv regime and carried out with its direct assistance. Incidentally, that individual is a well-known neo-Nazi and racist, including in Europe, who is banned from entering the European Union. It is not surprising that, like others with similar views, he felt at ease in Ukraine and committed his crimes with impunity and with the approval of the Kyiv leadership. It is not clear what the Kyiv authorities seek to achieve by means of the cold-blooded murder of children. Do they believe that it will increase the level of Western support?”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“That is exactly how Ukrainian nationalist battalions fire at the Russian-speaking people in the towns of Donbas, attempting to pass off their actions as crimes of the Russian army. Our investigative bodies have already gathered plenty of evidence of that kind. The attack was a planned, deliberate attack on civilians in villages in which there are no military facilities. In other words, the Bryansk attack was a true terrorist attack. Its perpetrators are members of a so- called Russian Volunteer Corps, which is a subdivision of the foreign legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and acts on orders from the military leadership of Ukraine. Zelenskyy’s regime even tried to deny that subversive attack, since such crimes are so blatantly abhorrent.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“For my part, I note that in the past month, we have once again witnessed the terrorist and inhumane nature of the Kyiv regime. On 2 March, the Ukrainian armed formations perpetrated a terrorist attack in two villages of the Bryansk region of Russia, during which they attacked a vehicle that was taking three children to school, murdering the driver and wounding an 11-year- old boy named Fedor. He was nevertheless able to climb out of the vehicle and helped two first-grade schoolgirls out as well. Fleeing the terrorists, the three children then began to seek shelter in a nearby wooded area. The wounded boy proved himself beyond any doubt to be a real man. The same cannot be said for the Ukrainian fighters, who, in a cynical attempt to leave no witnesses, fired at the backs of the children as they fled into the woods.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Acting in that particularly cynical manner, Ukraine has not only violated all the existing provisions and norms of international humanitarian law but also demonstrated a disregard for the fundamental principles of humanity, decency and mercy. Moreover, both the residents of the people’s republics of Donbas and the residents of territory that had been controlled by Kyiv before the start of the special military operation have been subjected to neo-Nazi hatred. The information I have just provided was part of the briefing that Daria Morozova was supposed to deliver, which is effectively a direct statement from the residents of Donbas, whom the West stubbornly seeks to ignore — it was in order to save their lives above all that the special military operation was launched a year ago.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“As a result of those terrorist acts, the supply of water to the territory of the republic from the main artery, the Seversky Donets-Donbas Canal, was cut off completely, so that today most towns in the Donetsk People’s Republic have only a centralized water supply, through which only utility water is supplied once every three days for just a few hours. People are forced to buy drinking water or receive it in the form of humanitarian aid. Cases of mass torture and execution of prisoners have also been recorded in Ukraine. Civilians in Kyiv-controlled territories are subjected to political persecution and repression on ideological grounds by the security services.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Since July 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have employed “lepestok” anti-personnel mines — known as “butterfly mines” — against the civilian population of the republic. Ukraine has planted those mines remotely in densely populated residential areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic, thereby injuring more than 90 civilians, including nine children; one of the victims died in hospital as a result of his injuries, and many others suffered traumatic limb amputations. In its attempts to generate a humanitarian disaster in the region, Kyiv has committed terrorist attacks and provocations targeting key infrastructure in Donbas, in particular targeting water supply and energy infrastructure.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“When the Ukrainian army retreated, it deliberately destroyed civilian infrastructure facilities and residential buildings that had survived the fighting. In the year of the special military operation, more than 15,500 instances of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine were recorded within the borders of the Donetsk People’s Republic that had existed before the special military operation was launched, more than 15,000 of which involved the use of heavy artillery. The enemy fired more than 100,000 munitions of various calibres into the Donetsk People’s Republic, including 39 Tochka-U missiles, more than 220 HIMARS missiles, 250 BM-27 Uragan missiles, 13,000 122-millimetre multiple-launch rocket system missiles and 21,500 155-millimetre shells.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Kyiv was preparing for a full-scale military operation in Donbas, which it had planned to launch in early March 2022. That had become clear from the significant escalation and increase in the military activity of Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zone. Since the beginning of the special military operation that was the result of the described events, when the cities of Donbas were liberated, increasing evidence of large-scale war crimes committed by the Ukrainian authorities has emerged, and its volume is increasing as the front line advances. Numerous testimonies of civilians have been recorded, confirming that the Ukrainian armed forces prevented civilians from evacuating combat zones. People were used as human shields, for example, in the cities of Mariupol, Volnovakha and Soledar.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“In the week that preceded the announcement of mass evacuations in Donbas alone, in violation of the ceasefire agreements, Ukrainian armed formations fired nearly 100 shells — which had been prohibited under the Minsk agreements — into the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic. In addition, Ukrainian soldiers received a direct order from Valery Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, to open fire at will and at their own discretion. The use of drones carrying improvised explosive devices to launch strikes against civilians has been established as a fact. On the eve of the special military operation, Ukraine had begun reinforcing its positions on the front, not only in terms of manpower but also in terms of the accumulation of weapons of mass destruction.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“The official representative of the Donetsk People’s Republic in the Trilateral Contact Group with responsibility for humanitarian issues, Daria Morozova, has assured us that the representatives of Kyiv did not focus on implementing any agreements whatsoever. Moreover, they sabotaged any progress that could have stopped the bloodshed — and I would add in my own capacity that their Western patrons encouraged them to do so. Given the absence of peaceful objectives in the negotiation process at the beginning of 2022, tensions grew along the line of contact, and there were blatant provocations by Kyiv.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Around 850 educational centres, 350 health-care facilities and 800 housing and utility service facilities that had supplied consumers in Donetsk with gas, water, heat and electricity had been destroyed. Between 2017 and 17 February 2022 alone, more than 339,000 pieces of ammunition of various calibres were fired into the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic. The international community did not provide an objective response to the actions of the representatives of Ukraine aimed at sabotaging the Minsk process. Over the past few years, through the fault of Kyiv, not a single clause of the Minsk Protocol or the Minsk package of measures was implemented.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“In December 2014 and March 2017, the socioeconomic restrictions regarding the region were enacted into law, by which Kyiv legalized its measures against its own population. Those steps have had irreparable consequences. Since the beginning of the conflict and as of 24 February 2022, 4,374 people, including 91 children, had been killed as a result of Ukraine’s armed aggression in the Donetsk people’s republic. Almost 8,000 civilians had injuries of varying degrees of severity, including 323 children, at least 27 of whom were disabled as a result. By the time the special operation began, fire from Ukrainian armed groups had destroyed more than 23,000 private homes and approximately 5,000 apartment buildings. Some residential areas were wiped off the face of the earth.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“The disbursement of all social benefits, including pensions, and banking services for personal and business accounts was stopped. There was a food blockade, with supply logistics for delivering food, medicines and essential goods blocked, and a transport blockade. There was an information blockade, with genuine information on what was happening in Donbas replaced by nationalist propaganda on a massive scale. On top of that, Ukraine terminated the work of all Government bodies, agencies and organizations in the region, depriving local residents of basic Government services, social assistance and the issuance of vital documents such as passports and birth and death certificates, which meant that they were completely unable to obtain confirmation of their status as citizens.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Its justification for its war crimes was that it was conducting a so-called counter- terrorism operation, a decree for which was signed on 14 April 2014 by a person who was illegally granted constitutional presidential powers. However, during the entire conflict in south-eastern Ukraine neither of the Luhansk and Donetsk people’s republics had been officially recognized as a terrorist organization, and therefore did not fall under the international criteria that would have designated them as such. As early as 2014 the International Committee of the Red Cross recognized the conflict in Ukraine as an internal one, that is, a civil war. In addition to open hostilities, Kyiv began its brutal repression of the civilian population by instituting socioeconomic restrictions. The region was subjected to an economic blockade.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“It would have been easier for her, as a native of Donbas, to do, but she has asked us to share with Council members some of the themes from the briefing she prepared. Mass peaceful protests in majority-Russian- speaking regions became a natural response to the new authorities’ unconstitutional measures. People took to the streets in the hope that they would be heard. All they asked was to meet with Kyiv’s representatives. Instead, in violation of article 17 of Ukraine’s Constitution, which prohibits the use of its armed forces and illegal armed groups to restrict the rights and freedoms of its citizens, the Kyiv regime sent the army to suppress the peaceful protests with its air assets, artillery and massively lethal weapons.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“What is important is ensuring that developing countries understand the true goals of Kyiv and its Western partners as they once again attempt to mobilize support for new anti-Russian initiatives in the General Assembly. At the same time, the Western countries continue to ignore the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s systematic and deliberate shelling of civilian objects in Donbas, which has gone on for nine years. We therefore believe that in order to show the full picture, our job today is to focus on what our Western colleagues will not say. Daria Morozova, our briefer today, the prospect of whose statement so frightened our former Western partners, had planned to provide a retrospective of the devastating internal Ukrainian conflict and the subsequent humanitarian crisis provoked by the anti-constitutional coup d’état in Kyiv in February 2014.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Of course they are not interested in ending hostilities, and the politicians are slavishly serving their interests. Only yesterday, when asked about the Chinese peace plan for Ukraine, the United States Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said that a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine “would be another continued violation of the Charter of the United Nations”. But at the beginning of March, Secretary Danilov of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine complained that more and more people in his country were advocating peace talks with Russia. In other words, the Kyiv regime is upset that Ukrainian citizens want peace with our country. As they say, no comment is necessary.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“The Western countries emphasize the destruction of Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure while ignoring the fact that if the Kyiv regime had complied with the norms of international humanitarian law, particularly those regarding refraining from positioning heavy weapons and air-defence systems in residential areas, civilians would not have ended up in strike zones, since our army exclusively targets energy and transport infrastructure with high-precision strikes. We are doing that to degrade Ukraine’s military potential, which the collective West is doing everything in its power to strengthen by resupplying it with weapons. We have already held more than one meeting in which the staggering profits that Western arms corporations are making from supplying weapons have been discussed.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Thanks to our former Western partners’ shameful and cowardly action preventing a briefer from Donbas from speaking, today the Council will have to listen to a statement by us that will be longer than usual. Our discussions at the Security Council on the humanitarian aspects of the Ukrainian crisis have invariably followed the same script.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): After listening to that passionate statement by our Albanian colleague regarding the presence of Serbia during meetings under resolution 1244 (1999), I wish to state that we have nothing against that. However, I would like to ask him a question, and perhaps he will venture to respond to it here in this Chamber, which is whether he views Kosovo as a territory recognized by the United Nations.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“We will take our American colleagues’ principled position on the matter into consideration, because otherwise we will see yet more double standards from the United States. We regret that the Council’s work has once again been taken hostage by the unscrupulous conduct of Western delegations openly seeking to advance their own opportunistic interests.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“I want to underscore that we have never stooped that low. We did not object when our Western colleagues proposed a briefer for the meeting that we convened on Russophobia (see S/PV.9280), even though his so-called briefing was a pack of lies and traditional Western narratives and the upshot was that he did not contribute constructively to the discussion in any way. What has happened today with Ms. Morozova is reason for us to think about how we should consider our colleagues’ requests under rule 39 in future. Our United States colleague said that hearing briefers from unrecognized territories is unacceptable and constitutes a violation of Council resolutions. However, in that case, inviting representatives of Kosovo to the Council, for example, constitutes is a clear violation of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We deplore the fact that a number of delegations today voted against our proposed briefer. We see it as a display of egregious hypocrisy and double standards when representatives of Donbas, which for nine years has suffered thanks to the war unleashed on it by Kyiv, are denied the right to address the Security Council on far-fetched pretexts. It only confirms the fact that these members do not consider the residents of Donbas to be human beings and do not give a damn about their suffering. Our Western colleagues are afraid that if the voices of truth make themselves heard, all their efforts to whitewash their clients in Kyiv will be in vain. In attempting to avoid that they resort to procedural tricks in a petty, unscrupulous game. To be frank, it looks disgraceful.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“We propose that she be heard in her personal capacity as a humanitarian activist. We call on the members of the Council to support the proposal to invite Ms. Daria Morozova to participate as a briefer in today’s meeting. Contrary to the assertions made by Western delegations, members’ support will in no way imply a recognition of any international legal realities whatsoever — those issues are completely unrelated. This is also a matter of freedom of speech. At the moment, we are talking merely about the invitation of a competent briefer to further advise the Council on the humanitarian situation, in line with rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure. Otherwise, today’s meeting will become yet another one-sided Western event that ignores the root causes of the Ukraine crisis.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“The briefer we proposed is a native of Donbas who has lived her entire life in that region and since 2014 has been engaged in active humanitarian work, helping those fellow countrymen and women who have suffered from Kyiv’s aggression. She has been engaged in prisoner exchanges and previously participated in the work of the Trilateral Contact Group on the implementation of the Minsk agreements, among other things. Her experience and expertise are unique. Daria Morozova engages with ordinary people in Donbas on a daily basis and is willing to share her observations, which would give the Council an overview of the real situation on the ground. We believe that our briefer fully meets the criteria set out in rule 39 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We insist on the participation of the briefer we have proposed to invite to today’s meeting. Our delegation introduced the proposal to invite Ms. Daria Morozova based on the sole consideration of giving the Security Council an opportunity to receive first- hand information about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the region of Donbas, which is inextricably linked to the humanitarian situation in Ukraine. Since 2014, the residents of Donbas have been forced to survive shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces, enduring such deprivation in the absence of any reaction whatsoever on the part of the international community. Our Western colleagues have scrupulously sidestepped that issue, in line with their policy to whitewash any crimes by Kyiv, regardless of how heinous they may be.”
2023-03-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9286 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I am not going to engage in a dispute with Professor Snyder. That is because, first, he did not respond to the questions that I asked. He simply gave another briefing. By the way, I want to let Professor Snyder know that I have read Serhii Plokhy’s books. But once the record of our meeting is ready, I will note the questions that he refused to answer and his remarks that not only puzzled me but also revolted me when I first heard them. Let us not turn this into a dispute between me and Professor Snyder. We will find a different way to answer Professor Snyder.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“We are not defending ourselves or diverting attention, as was said earlier. We are not worried about ourselves, but about the Ukrainians, and are trying to explain what the current criminal Kyiv regime has brought about for them. That happened long before February 2022. I hope that the members of the Security Council will not equate the opinions of political analysts with the statements of Ukraine’s top leadership and its official representatives — the President, the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, the leaders of foreign policy organizations, the diplomats and the governors. If we were to look closely at the statements made by Ukrainian political scientists and experts, what we could cite would hardly be permissible in this Chamber owing to their vile and hateful nature.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I would like to make a few brief comments with regard to what we heard today. Some of our colleagues made an energetic but unconvincing attempt to cite examples of hate speech about Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Russian media. The emotional statements of some of our political scientists are, first, their personal position, and secondly, they do not apply to Ukrainians in general but to nationalists and neo-Nazis and are a response to their Russophobic views. The references and citations do not apply because they do not refer to Ukrainians but to the Kyiv authorities. I would like to ask: when has there been a single call by Russia or by Russian officials for the de-Ukrainianization of Ukraine or its disappearance from the map? No one has heard such a call today.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“I hope that today the members of the Council can make an honest assessment of their actions. They will never be able to build long-term, sustainable peace in Europe on Russophobia, and I want them to realize that. I also hope that today they will spare us their arguments claiming that it is we ourselves who are to blame. As we were all able to understand today, the Russophobia in Ukraine began evolving long before 24 February 2022. In defending their Kyiv protégés’ despicable acts and presenting them as a response to ours, they are not only stooping low themselves but devaluing their own vaunted high standards and values and risking dragging their societies down to Kyiv’s level. We would very much like to believe that they can still avoid that scenario.”
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“The rampant Russophobic campaign there unleashed by Zelenskyy and his clique is a direct threat to international peace and security, because in the circumstances peace and good-neighbourly relations with Ukraine are impossible in principle. What we have always wanted and continue to want from our Ukrainian neighbours is no more than the respect for elementary rights and freedoms that our Western colleagues so zealously pursue at home. But for some reason they apply different standards for Ukraine. I have a question for our Swiss neighbours. In order to be Swiss, do people have to renounce their Italian, French or German identity? Does that threaten the integrity of the Swiss nation? And if not, where is their criticism of what the Kyiv authorities are doing to Russians?”
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“Vyshinsky spoke about it today, and we had a recent Security Council meeting on the topic that I believe many members will recall (see S/PV.9245). The situation has only deteriorated since then. On top of the raids and seizures of Orthodox churches and parishes all over Ukraine, the Zelenskyy regime is now planning to seize the country’s most important shrine, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, on 28 March. That step brings with it the threat of an unprecedented intra-Ukrainian fratricidal confrontation, and I wanted our Western colleagues to hear about it from us today. It is still not too late to reprimand the Kyiv regime, and they have it in their power to do so. In conclusion, I would like to stress that we did not convene today’s meeting to talk about Ukraine’s domestic problems.”
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“It is a true linguistic inquisition and obscurantism because of which completely innocent people are suffering and dying. And all of that is happening before the eyes of our Western colleagues, who incidentally have also not taken such a big step as they start to ban everything Russian. We can see that perfectly well and can ascribe it to their carefully concealed hatred for our country, language, religion and culture, because no condemnation of our special military operation can explain the rampant Russophobia in their countries. One more issue that I want to draw the Council’s attention to today is the Kyiv regime’s ongoing war on the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which has no formal relationship to Russia itself. Mr.”
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