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Nebenzia

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“Brands Kehris to brief the Council today. It is clear that it is not at all convenient for her and her colleagues to criticize Ukraine against the background of the West’s anti-Russian frenzy. The Russophobia that is raging in Ukraine has many manifestations. Besides those that I have already mentioned, they include the war on Russian books, which are now being destroyed just as books were destroyed in Nazi Germany. There is also the shameful war being waged on monuments and geographical names related to Russia, and which our briefers discussed in detail. Repression in Ukraine can happen today for speaking a word of Russian, singing a Russian song, reading Russian news or getting a text message in Russian on a mobile phone.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“The Secretary of the of the National Security and Defence Council, Oleksiy Danilov, expressed the view that the Russian language should disappear from Ukraine, and he called Russian people “rats” who should be “poisoned” and “exterminated by any means possible”. What is currently happening in Ukraine is essentially a total ban on the Russian language. Since last fall, a total ban on studying Russian in schools, even as a foreign language, was added to the laws that I mentioned earlier. Our former Western partners, who promote the principles of diversity and the protection of national and cultural identity only at home, have not reacted at all to any of that. International mechanisms that are pro-Western or comprised mostly of Western representatives have also failed to react. One clear example of that attitude was the refusal of Ms.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“Those who did not want to do so, in particular the residents of Donbas, were intimidated by bombings and shelling or simply killed. I would also like to emphasize that those measures were not a response to Russia’s actions, but a proactive and deliberate attempt to destroy the Russian language and culture in Ukraine. The rights of the Russian-speaking population were therefore flagrantly violated. After February 2022, the fight against the Russian language in Ukraine took on grotesque proportions in the form of appalling evocations of Nazism. Ukrainian officials made no secret of their hatred for everything Russian and their intention to get rid of the Russian people and the Russian language. The country’s language ombudsman, Taras Kremin stated, “Ukraine for the Ukrainians”.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“In arming his country with Western help and preparing for war with Russia under the cover of the Minsk agreements — about which there is today no doubt thanks to the revelations by former French, German and United Kingdom leaders — he took a number of steps to eradicate the Russian language and everything Russian from the country. In 2020 and 2021, discriminatory laws on secondary education, the indigenous peoples of Ukraine and national-patriotic education were adopted. In September 2021, Zelenskyy called on all residents of Ukraine who considered themselves Russian to leave the country. He called that their personal choice. If you want to live in Ukraine and see a future for your children and grandchildren there, he said, you must become a Ukrainian and give up your Russian identity.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“Leave them alone. You should legally give them the possibility to speak Russian. Language will never divide our native country. I have Jewish blood. I speak Russian, but I am a citizen of Ukraine... Russia and Ukraine are truly brotherly peoples... We all understand one another very well”. Largely thanks to that position and his promises to bring an end to the civil war in Donbas, 75 per cent of Ukrainians voted for him in the 2019 presidential election. However, the new Head of the Ukrainian State very quickly showed that all such issues, which are of extreme importance for Ukrainians, were actually nothing more than empty sound bites. He quickly fell in line with Kyiv’s patrons, who did not intend to preserve peace in Ukraine and its good-neighbourly relations with Russia.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“Those measures were enacted in direct violation of not only documented international norms but also the principles enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine, which seek to protect the linguistic, educational and other rights of citizens and national minorities. I will not go into detail about the discriminatory processes currently under way in Ukraine in relation to the Russian language and Russian-speaking inhabitants. Both of the briefers whom we invited informed us about that in detail. I will focus only on the role of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who promised during his presidential campaign to review the language laws that had further divided an already-polarized Ukrainian society. I would like to cite his words on Ukrainian television before he became President, “People in eastern Ukraine and Crimea want to speak Russian.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“That is why the repeal of the law was temporarily delayed. When the Minsk agreements were signed, Kyiv even agreed to include the option of linguistic self-determination for Donbas. However, as we now know, the Kyiv regime never intended to honour those agreements. For nine years, the Ukrainian authorities systematically destroyed anything that might even be remotely related to Russia. In doing so, they undermined the foundations of a society whose culture and civilizational identity had been joined with our country for centuries. As the result of six legislative acts adopted under Petro Poroshenko, the Russian language was removed from every sphere of public life and strict language quotas were introduced in the media. Attempts to discourage the use of Russian through discrimination in everyday life also increased.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“One of the first decisions of the new regime was an attempt to repeal the law on the principles of the State language policy, under which the Russian language enjoyed the status of a regional language in 13 of Ukraine’s 24 oblasts. It was that decision that triggered the separation from Ukraine of the Crimea, the vast majority of whose population considers itself to be Russian. The menace of eradicating the native language and portraying Nazi collaborators and criminals as heroes was the key reason for the righteous protest of the residents of Donbas, where Russian was used in everyday communication by more than 80 per cent of the inhabitants. It is worth noting that even the Maidan authorities realized that the language issue was culturally sensitive and could lead to the collapse of the country.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“Just a few days after the bloody regime change, the leader of the extremist Right Sector, Dmitry Yarosh, declared that de-Russification was a completely just and necessary development. Russophobe and Verkhovna Rada deputy Iryna Farion called all Russian speakers mentally disabled. The Mayor of Dnepropetrovsk Boris Filatov said that, “We have to give those scum whatever promises and guarantees are necessary. We can hang them later”. I am quoting those words so that members of the Security Council can understand the rabid Russophobia of the new Government that Russian-speaking Ukrainians have faced since the 2014 coup d’état. The authorities were prepared to kill and burn them, as was clearly demonstrated when more than 40 Russian- speaking activists were burned alive in the trade union headquarters in Odesa in May 2014.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“As a result, an entire generation of Ukrainians were steeped in the doctrine of Mikhnovsky and Dontsov, learning that Russians were the enemy and that Ukrainians were a superior nation, from whom the Moskals stole everything, including their religion, language, literature and culture. History was rewritten as well, and those who served the fascists and committed terrible atrocities became heroes who had promoted an independent Ukraine. As a result of the 2014 anti-constitutional coup d’état, Ukraine definitively became anti-Russian ,and Russophobia was elevated to the status of State policy. The Maidan activists did not hide their misanthropic Russophobic views, and their foreign sponsors were well aware of that.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“According to the 2001 census, 17.3 per cent of the population — mostly living in the east and south of the country — considered themselves to be Russians. Almost 30 per cent of the population considered Russian to be their native language. But as the briefer mentioned, many more people spoke Russian at home and in other social situations. The fact that in 2004, 95 per cent of all books published in Ukraine were written in Russian shows how widespread the language was in Ukraine at the time of the events mentioned earlier. The then new nationalist Government immediately launched a brutal attack on the Russian language and everything else Russian. Through schools, education, movies and television, they planted the idea that everything Russian was foreign.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“Snyder, as well as Mykola Mikhnovsky and Dmytro Dontsov, who formulated the principles of integral Ukrainian nationalism. Incidentally, those principles are quite uncomplicated and based, like German Nazi doctrine, on the superiority of the Ukrainian nation over others. The main principle that they formulated was the notion that “Russkies, Hungarians, Polacks and Yids are the enemies of the Ukrainian people”. That is precisely the reason why Russophobia so easily became the core ideology for an independent Ukraine, a process that has accelerated noticeably since the so-called Orange Revolution of 2004, and especially since the anti-constitutional coup d’état of 2014. This has already been mentioned here, but I will repeat it without delving into the historical details.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“Snyder has long been known for his historical hoaxes aimed at proving that Russians supposedly never lived in Ukraine and that it has an independent, centuries-long if not thousand-year history. One can only feel for him, because those fables and attempts to rewrite history crumble easily in the face of historical facts. Ukrainians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were not a people but rather adherents of a particular ideology — that of opposition to Russia and Tsarism — and of course, for want of anyone else, ethnic Russians living outside the Russian empire lorded it over the political Ukrainians at that time. One such was Mykhailo Hrushevsky, whose pseudo-historical works have become canonical in Ukraine and today are actively promoted in the West for political reasons, particularly by Mr.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Kirill Vyshinsky and Dmitry Vasilets for their briefings. Each of them has a bitter personal experience of encountering Russophobia in Ukraine. They have seen with their own eyes and from the inside how that State was transformed into a Russophobic anti-Russia. I would like to hear Mr. Snyder provide examples of what he lied about so shamelessly today. Where did he hear those vile epithets on Russian television — whether State or non-State — with regard to Ukrainian and Ukrainians that he referenced in the hope that nobody would verify his claim? They simply do not exist and are nowhere to be found. Mr.”
2023-03-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9280 (2023) · source
“But it is in their interest to try to do something. So far, they are only making matters worse by continuing to pump weapons into the Kyiv regime and helping it on the battlefield. Meanwhile, they leave us no choice but to militarily eliminate threats to Russia from Ukraine’s territory. They should think about that when they come up with new anti-Russian initiatives within the United Nations and pass them off as evidence of global support for Ukraine.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“It was the Ukrainian people who paid the ultimate price for that, and whom the Kyiv regime was happy to sacrifice for Western geopolitical interests. We welcome sincere efforts towards peace, such as China’s proposals. The choice is up to our former Western partners, above all Washington. After all that we have learned about them this year, after the boundless and abhorrent Russophobia and attempts to abolish Russia, after the weapons supplied to the Zelenskyy regime that killed peaceful women, children and elderly people in Donbas, after their Ukrainian adventure through the attempt to create problems for us on our borders, it is clear that our relations will no longer be the same. We no longer trust their words, and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to regain our trust. It is not words, but deeds that matter now.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“One must coexist with them, and it is even quite possible to cooperate in our mutual interest, but on an equal and mutually respectful basis. The unipolar world is a thing of the past, and it is in our common interest to make the transition to a multipolar world with the least amount of turmoil. I would like to believe that the hot phase of that transition will limit itself to the the Ukrainian crisis alone. That in fact is what a real conversation about peace should look like, including perhaps within the United Nations, and the sooner it starts, the better. We tried to start it on the eve of the beginning of the special military operation, at the end of 2021, but the West arrogantly rejected all our proposals for such a dialogue.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Their bases are located on our borders in violation of key understandings that ended the Cold War era. Western leaders deceived us then, and they want to continue to deceive us now by positing NATO’s absolute right to expand unchecked and trying to bamboozle the entire world with tales of how much money they spend on the Sustainable Development Goals, as United States Secretary of State Blinken just did. I would like to recall that, since the Cold War alone, the United States has conducted 251 military operations overseas, inflicting tremendous damage on such countries. Even if one pays 100 times over, it will not make up for that damage. The collective West must accept the fact that there are other actors on our planet that have their own interests.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Then the golden billion can continue to enrich themselves at the expense of others, unchecked and with impunity, pitting countries against each other, managing their natural resources and exploiting their populations. That is called the rules-based international order, on which Russia has encroached by not being willing to put up with a Russophobic hornet’s nest on its borders. We want developing countries to have no illusions as to what this conflict is really about. Of course, the solution to this conflict is inseparable from issues related to a fair and indivisible Euro-Atlantic security system. It now only works for the United States and its NATO allies. They have appropriated for themselves the right to interfere in any international matters and the internal affairs of other States. Ukraine is a prime example of that.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“As we all now reliably know, it did not allow the Kyiv regime to make peace in March and April last year. Our Western colleagues are now happy: Russians and Ukrainians are killing each other, Western defence companies are making enormous profits and getting access to testing grounds for new weapons, and, by getting rid of old weapons, NATO is slowly rearming. At the same time, Washington is weakening its European rivals, which are showing an unprecedented degree of servility and impotence. We spoke about that in detail in this Chamber yesterday (see S/PV.9268). Most important, the West gleefully hopes that, by having weakened Russia and threatened China, it will maintain its monopolistic position in the world and remain the only flourishing garden on the jungle planet, in the words of Mr. Borrell.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Their slogan should therefore really be: if Russia stops the hostilities, the discrimination against and persecution of the Russian-speaking population, who do not want to break with Russia, the violation of their rights and freedoms and the glorification of Nazi criminals will continue in Ukraine. If Ukraine stops the hostilities, it will have a chance to rebuild itself as a normal, peace-loving, independent State and to save many thousands of human lives. That is why we have repeatedly stated that we are ready to negotiate on how the goals of our special military operation can be implemented peacefully. Of course, we will not even consider plans that involve other scenarios. This week, we have repeatedly said that it is only the collective West that is not interested in the cessation of hostilities.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Furthermore, a trite cliché bandied about this week, which appeared much earlier, was the assertion that if Russia stops hostilities, the war would end, but if Ukraine would stop fighting, there would be no Ukraine. It sounds nice, but it is completely false. Where, when and from whom did anyone hear that the goal of our military operation was the destruction of Ukraine, to de-Ukrainize it? We have never declared such a goal. We have always wanted to have what we had before — a friendly neighbour who does not threaten us, does not discriminate against anyone and is not trying to resurrect Nazism.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“We all recently heard the confessions made by François Hollande, Angela Merkel and Boris Johnson that neither France, Germany nor the United Kingdom ever took those agreements seriously, had no intention of urging the Ukrainian authorities to implement them and used the agreements only to buy time for Kyiv to prepare for war with Russia. Even if we disregard the moral side of the issue — and we have long had no illusions about the moral qualities of some of our Western colleagues — the point is that the leaders of those States, in fact, openly admitted that they knowingly violated resolution 2202 (2015), which enshrined the Minsk agreements. But that does not prevent the Foreign Ministers of those same States from lecturing other Member States here in the Council today.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“For us, it is obvious that Ukraine is not a victim, because if it had not gone to war against the inhabitants of Donetsk and Luhansk, with the consent of her and her colleagues, but rather heeded their aspirations, then there would have been no need for our special military operation. Crimea would have probably remained part of Ukraine, because the people of Crimea chose reunification with Russia only after they heard direct threats from the Kyiv authorities. I would like to take advantage of the fact that Ms. Colonna and Ms. Baerbock are participating in today’s meeting to raise another very inconvenient topic for our Western colleagues — the Minsk agreements.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“That is exactly what the Kyiv regime did in the summer of 2014, and it was then that the intra-Ukrainian armed conflict broke out. Does she think that we should have resigned ourselves to that situation? Let me remind the Council that NATO justified its aggression against Yugoslavia with the phrase “campaign of terror” and the need for the Kosovars to “live in security and enjoy universal human rights and freedoms on an equal basis”. These are quotes from a NATO statement issued on 23 April 1999. It turns out that she and her colleagues are denying Russian-speaking Ukrainians universal rights and freedoms if she presents the Kyiv authorities that attacked them as a victim. And she is silent about the campaign of terror unleashed against them.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“And it is those same goals that led to the formation on our borders of a hostile nationalistic Russophobic regime, which zealously rushed to solve the “Russian issue” in Ukraine. Yesterday, our British colleague, speaking in the General Assembly (see A/ES-11/PV.19), criticized the draft amendments proposed by Belarus to the draft resolution. She argued that the draft amendments equate the aggressor and the victim. Is she not concerned that the “victim” is up to its elbows in blood and Nazi tattoos? And what of the nine years of elimination of the Russian-speaking residents of Donbas? Why does she think it is normal for Ukraine to send guns and tanks against unarmed civilians in the east of the country and bomb them simply because they do not want to abandon their own identity?”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“We would suggest the following title for the conference: “Yet another missed opportunity for a peaceful resolution to the Ukrainian crisis.” That would be correct, because any expression using the word “peace”, used disingenuously, including today, by high-ranking representatives of Ukraine and Western countries, means something completely different in fact, namely, the capitulation of Russia and inflicting a strategic defeat on it, ideally followed by the disintegration of the country and the redrawing of its constituent territories. These true goals of Western interference in Ukrainian affairs, which most clearly manifested themselves, by the way, almost exactly nine years ago, on the day of the Maidan anti-constitutional coup of 21 February 2014, were laid bare from the very beginning.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Today is the end of a difficult week for the United Nations. It will be remembered by everyone for the information hype created by Ukraine and its Western sponsors on the anniversary of Russia’s launch of a special military operation in Ukraine. It would seem that this is exactly what Mr. Kuleba promised in January — to hold a peace summit in New York. We could, without exaggeration, dedicate an entire political science conference to analysing what our former Western partners have said this week. Perhaps that will happen in future, when people wish to cast a retrospective eye on the situation.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are on our feet to honour the memory of all the victims of what has happened in Ukraine, starting in 2014 — all of those who perished. All lives are priceless, and that is why we are standing, to honour the memory of them all. The members of the Security Council observed a minute of silence.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“That serves to confirm our belief that there is no added value in expanding the Council with Western countries, because they are turning the Council into the instrument for satisfying their whims.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Such an approach degrades the value of our debate and damages the Council’s reputation. Your British colleagues have already gone down in history as a bad-faith President of the Council when they rejected our request for a special emergency meeting of the Council — something unprecedented. We regret the fact that, time and again, the Maltese presidency has openly ignored the Security Council’s rules of procedures and practices and put its own national position and the EU common position over its responsibilities as President of the Security Council, which is supposed to be the guardian of the Council’s procedures and to adopt an impartial stance. We are forced to say that Malta is not up to the task.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“But that should be in strict accordance with the prevailing practice under rule 37, that is, delegations take the floor after the members of the Council. What we are seeing now is another attempt to give certain rights to a given country, whereby you, Sir, as a representative of the “golden billion”, openly give preference to Ukraine just because it is part of your geopolitical project. It would seem that the problems of the rest the world are of no concern to you. The same goes for the unprecedented number of delegations to be invited today under rule 37 — 12 European Union (EU) countries, in addition to High Representative Joseph Borrell Fontelles. It is obvious that all those countries, sharing the same EU position dictated by Brussels, will add no value the discussion.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Dmytro Kuleba himself spoke in the Security Council on 22 September 2022 (see S/PV.9135) after all the members of the Security Council. Not once did any Western delegation offer to hear representatives of African, Latin American, or indeed any other regions, except Ukraine speak before the members of the Security Council spoke at meetings that those regions are directly affected by. Do you understand, Sir, how it will look in the eyes of the rest of the world if you decide today to give Mr. Kuleba the privileged right to speak at the beginning of the meeting? I want to emphasize once again that we have nothing against the statement to be made by Mr. Dmytro Kuleba as such; we are ready to listen to him.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Abdoulaye Diop, also spoke after the members of the Council; the meeting held on 11 January on Colombia (see S/PV.9240), where the Vice-President — I emphasize, not even the Minister for Foreign Affairs but the Vice-President, Ms. Francia Márquez Mina — spoke after the members of the Security Council; the meeting held on 24 January on Haiti (see S/PV.9247), where the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Roberto Álvarez Gil, spoke after all the members of the Security Council. Similarly, Mr. Álvarez Gil spoke after the members of the Security Council at the meeting on Haiti held on 21 December 2022 (see S/PV.9233). The list of such examples can go on and on. If we talk about precedents, then Mr.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I would like to warn you, Sir, that the moment you strike the gavel, thereby formalizing your decisions, you will create an egregious precedent whereby the representatives of Ukraine in the Council are given the kind of privileges that are denied to representatives of other regions of the world. Let me give you some specific examples from recent practice: the meeting on the Central African Republic held on 21 February (see S/PV.9265), where Ms. Sylvie Valérie Baipo Temon, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic, spoke after the members Council; the meeting held on 27 January on Mali (see S/PV.9251), where the Minister for Foreign Affairs of that country, Mr.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): I would like to say a few words regarding a point of order. We would like to ask you, Mr. President, to please clarify the basis on which you propose to give the floor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Dmytro Kuleba, before the members of the Council speak. We have nothing against his statement, but the Council has its rules, which were established long before Malta became a member of the Security Council. You, Mr. President, should abide by them. I would like to get an answer to my question.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“For every dollar it invests, for every non-governmental organization or political fund it forms, they will then have to pay the price of independence and sovereignty, or even face direct interference in domestic affairs. It is important to remember the West’s violation of Ukraine’s independence and the unenviable fate of that State, which was turned into a blind and unwilling pawn in someone else’s game. I ask members to think of the Middle East burning to this day and of Yugoslavia being torn apart, and not to repeat these mistakes of others.”
2023-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9268 (2023) · source
“Just a week after the adoption of the document, European Union representatives took a direct part in the anti-constitutional armed coup in Kyiv, thereby setting, at the instigation of the Americans, a tough confrontation with Russia. That fateful decision was the starting point of the European Union’s degradation, its devaluation into an obedient tool of the Americans. Given the blatant hostility of the European Union in its present form towards Russia and its dwarfing independent importance, we are forced to be sceptical of all projects involving the European Union and on the United Nations platform. I would like to urge all developing nations to think seriously about that reassessment. Council members must accept that Washington stands behind Brussels.”
2023-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9268 (2023) · source
“At that time, the members of the Security Council, including us, being in a completely different paradigm of relations with the European Union, welcomed its assistance in stabilizing the Western Balkans, Mali, the Central African Republic, Afghanistan and Syria. Now, nine years later, the text of that document looks like someone’s cruel joke. After all, Western involvement has brought only instability, economic problems and suffering to those and many other regions. It makes no sense to single out the European Union from the pile of other structures that have been completely taken over by the United States. By a strange and almost mystical coincidence, the date of that statement separated the old Europe from the new one in many ways.”
2023-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9268 (2023) · source
“In the end, what is left of those European values? What are the achievements? All they have done is transform a woman into a man and a man into a non-binary person, into something that is neither male nor female and is completely indistinct, and making traditional families something unseemly. We recognize those so-called breakthroughs and do not intend to compete on that front. We ask that they stay away from us with their new values. The last and only Security Council document in recent years on cooperation with the European Union was the presidential statement of 14 February 2014 (S/PRST/2014/4).”
2023-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9268 (2023) · source
“But Europe is above all a union of values — those of proverbial freedom, equality, fraternity, democracy and human rights. That has always been its appeal. Alas, the European Union has also failed in that area. Having once accepted the Baltic countries with their Russophobia and apartheid attitude towards their own Russian- speaking population, instead of curing them of that disease, the EU became infected with it. Brussels has also long lost any measure of good sense with regard to media freedom, reducing it to strict censorship and a ban on dissent. In recent years, that was compounded by rapidly progressing blindness to neo-Nazism, which took practical expression not only in ignoring Nazi manifestations in Ukraine but also in voting against the annual resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism.”
2023-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9268 (2023) · source
“Let us not stoop to conspiracy theories, but one thing is clear — there has never been such impotence in the economic sphere and such servility to the United States in the history of Europe. It went so far that Brussels tacitly accepted the sabotage of the gas pipeline, paid for by European investors among others, by its closest ally. Brussels is now attempting to sweep all the inconvenient facts under the carpet so as not to displease Washington. What independent role of the EU and Europe, as a whole, can we talk about under such circumstances? In any case, one thing is certain — after such gross political and economic blunders, Europe’s chances of becoming one of the poles of the nascent multipolar world are close to zero. Some might say that we should wait.”
2023-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9268 (2023) · source
“Glad to be off the Russian gas needle, the European Union is now addicted to the hard drug — expensive American liquefied natural gas. To keep the economy of the European Union functioning in just the energy aspect alone, €710 billion was spent in 2022. In other words, European liberal market economies are now surviving on Government subsidies and grants. And yet Europe’s prosperity and economic power were based primarily on cheap Russian energy resources. Once they were gone, Europe became an economic colossus with clay feet, and energy-intensive industries were drawn across the ocean to the delight of big brother. Evil tongues say that that was exactly what Washington wanted from the very beginning of the conflict — to destroy its European competitor.”
2023-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9268 (2023) · source
“They essentially view the rest of the world as a hostile environment, which needs to be reformatted, using those same instruments — put succinctly, those same weed-infested jungles that Mr. Borrell sees us as. Someone might object that the EU was initially devised as an economic, not a political, bloc and the strength and appeal of the European Union was economic in nature. Perhaps one year ago that was true. But the situation has changed fundamentally since then. In the year that has elapsed — a year of completely severing ties with our country — the growth rate of “united” Europe’s gross domestic product is close to zero, while record-breaking inflation rates are now in double digits. Europe welcomes the fact that it has been disconnected from the Russian gas pipeline.”
2023-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9268 (2023) · source
“The provisions of the document about the secondary nature or, speaking in the language of NATO strategists, the complementary nature vis-à-vis the alliance of Europeans’ defence policy effectively invalidates any European Union claims to be independent in that area. For the European Union, that “new level of partnership” means complete support for the confrontational approaches of NATO and being dragged into playing a supporting role in geopolitical ambitions for a global domination. The joint declaration is yet another attempt to assert the philosophy of Western superiority. It bluntly claims that NATO and the EU will use all political, economic and military means to the benefit of their own 1 billion citizens.”
2023-02-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9268 (2023) · source
“Incidentally and parenthetically, in such cases we talk about the European Union as a single Europe, our closest and natural neighbours, but of course that is no longer true. From a military and political perspective, the European Union, before our eyes, is losing its own legal standing and becoming a spineless appendage of another military bloc, whose true goals, intentions and masters have long been known to us. The joint declaration of cooperation between the EU and NATO, signed on 10 January, essentially reaffirms the full subordination of the European Union to the goal set by the North Atlantic bloc.”
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“Today we understand perfectly well that all the tales about good-neighbourliness, partnership and common spaces were a mere smokescreen to orchestrate a confrontaiton with Russia, executed by our shared neighbours. The most pliant were Georgia and Ukraine, who were chosen as pawns in the geopolitical confrontation with our country. While Tbilisi was smart enough to minimize the damage in time, the Maidan- driven Kyiv Government, infiltrated with revived Ukrainian nationalism and neo-Nazism, simply lost its mind because of that new sycophantic role. As a result, the world today is on the verge of a suicidal conflict, which the EU, alongside the rest of the West, advances by leaps and bounds, increasing weapons deliveries to the Kyiv regime and becoming more complicit.”
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“However, those assertions are shattered by a simple fact: it was Russia, on the eve of the Ukraine crisis, that consistently proposed that the West sign an agreement on mutual security assurances, while putting forward suggestions on comprehensive and indivisible security in the Euro- Atlantic space. All of those were arrogantly rebuffed. Why indeed would the European Union need them when, through its Eastern Partnership programme, it has consistently promoted a completely different logic since 2009, insisting on the need to sever ties with Russia and making them choose — Russia or the EU? The logic was absolutely evident in the European Union-Ukraine Association Agreement, which triggered the Maidan coup d’état in 2014. That triggered the acute Ukrainian crisis. We are seeing the final phase today.”
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“Against a backdrop of measures aimed at cancelling Russia, its culture and its artistic and sporting achievements, we are getting a totally unambiguous picture of our European neighbours that makes us want to close the door entirely on them and, indeed, deadbolt that door until such obscurantism and Russophobia cease. Russia has been labelled the principal and essentially sole threat to European security. It has even become somewhat taboo to discuss the possibility of building a common security system with Russia — now only collective security against Russia is acceptable for discussion. The response to any related question in Brussels is that Russia has only itself to blame.”
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“We have also learned that the freedom of speech in the European Union is tantamount to a ban on alternative views. In addition, while we were of course aware of the Russophobia lying dormant in the depths of Europe, we had frankly no idea of its depth and scale, which is not limited to a maniacal desire to defeat Russia at the hands of Ukrainians on the battlefield. It goes far deeper — in favour of the most primitive, boorish Russophobes among the Poles and the Baltic States, we are witnessing events being held in European capitals and institutions on how best to dismember and destroy our countr.”
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