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Nebenzia

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first: 2017-08-02
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“We have already seen those same double standards laid bare with regard to the migration crisis in the European Union, as Ukrainian refugees are given all sorts of benefits and preferences on the basis of the fact that they are allegedly accustomed to that way of life at home, whereas refugees from Africa and the countries of the Middle East are kept in camps in inhumane conditions. Incidentally, yesterday a serious scandal broke out in Ukraine after Sergiy Leshchenko, an adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, published a video of his attendance in a nightclub in Kyiv filled to the brim with dancing young people. Ukrainians were outraged by this story from the point of view of the total mobilization taking place in parallel. But I want to ask the Council something else.”
2023-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9489 (2023) · source
“The first such issue is the blatant double standards of Western delegations regarding the Palestinian people. I will give a few illustrative examples. How many times have Western delegations requested Security Council meetings on Ukraine? The answer is at least twice a month. The United States and Albania are doing everything they can to express concern about the political aspects of the crisis, while France and Ecuador are positioning themselves as fighters to overcome its humanitarian consequences. How many times have those delegations requested Security Council meetings on the Middle East? The answer is zero. Why are my colleagues being so timid in that regard? Or is the fate of the Palestinian population is much less interesting to them, from a domestic political perspective, in their capitals?”
2023-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9489 (2023) · source
“We express our condolences over the dead and injured civilians in Israel and Palestine, including to the families of the deceased humanitarian workers. We are deeply grateful to all humanitarian workers who continue to risk their lives every hour to courageously fulfil their duty on the ground. As bitter as it might be to acknowledge, I will be frank in saying that their contribution to mitigating the consequences of this escalation for ordinary people is much greater than what the Security Council has managed to achieve. Now is the time to ask ourselves how that could have happened. In response to the generally correct calls made today for the unity of the Council, I would like to directly touch upon a number of awkward issues for our Western colleagues that are fundamentally important for understanding the current situation.”
2023-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9489 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are grateful to the Chinese presidency for holding today’s meeting. We highly appreciate Beijing’s contribution to multilateral efforts to resolve the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone. For more than two months, a conflict of biblical proportions has been raging in the Middle East. It is no exaggeration to say that it has become one of the deadliest regional conflicts in recent decades. The statistics of victims are setting monstrous records — in less than two months, 1,200 Israelis and 15,000 Palestinian civilians, half of whom were children, have died. A total of 1.7 million Gazan residents have become internally displaced — such numbers have not been seen since 1948. More than 111 employees of United Nations humanitarian agencies have died.”
2023-11-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9489 (2023) · source
“That draft resolution explicitly requests the Secretary-General, along with the resident coordinators and United Nations country teams, to monitor the impact of such measures on the affected countries, including their impact on trade and development. We warn that further silence by the Secretariat on this subject will indicate deliberate sabotage by the United Nations of the mandate of Member States and will undermine the reputation of the global Organization.”
2023-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9487 (2023) · source
“El-Mostafa Benlamlih, promised to the Security Council and that the United Nations country team in Syria has been preparing for more than a year has not yet materialized. That situation is absolutely unacceptable, given that sanctions are essentially blocking the work of the United Nations staff on the ground, depriving the Syrians of the real benefits of the United Nations presence. Given the adoption in the Second Committee of the General Assembly of draft resolution A/C.2/78/L.6/Rev.1 on unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries, we are of the view that the Resident Coordinator in Damascus now has the mandate necessary to prepare that report.”
2023-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9487 (2023) · source
“In that regard, we must note that, if our Western colleagues were to demonstrate the same zeal with which they approach cross-border access to Idlib to ensuring unimpeded, sustained and safe passage of convoys of emergency assistance to the blockaded Gaza Strip and to providing assistance to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians suffering from Israeli bombing, the work of humanitarians in Gaza would be much more effective. We also note that both the United Nations and the West remain silent with regard to the negative impacts of the illegal unilateral sanctions on the humanitarian situation and the socioeconomic development of Syria in general. The thematic report that the former Resident Coordinator ad interim in Damascus, Mr.”
2023-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9487 (2023) · source
“They continue to shamelessly cover for the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham terrorists who are blocking United Nations cross-line deliveries to Idlib. None of the Western delegations on the Council have even condemned the ongoing destructive conduct of those internationally recognized terrorists. At the same time, we know that the Bab Al-Hawa crossing point is being actively used by United Nations staff in Gaziantep for field missions to Idlib. We would like to ask Ms. Wosornu whether visits by United Nations staff to the terrorist-controlled enclave are coordinated with Damascus and whether they send the Syrian Government reports following those trips.”
2023-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9487 (2023) · source
“The Americans and Europeans are trying to whitewash the Security Council-listed terrorists of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, who control Idlib, by condemning Damascus and its allies for fighting them. With regard to the humanitarian aspects of the Syrian settlement, we fully welcome the goodwill shown by Damascus in authorizing the United Nations to continue using the Bab Al-Salam and Bab Al-Rai crossing points until 13 February 2024. That sovereign decision by the Syrian Government demonstrates Damascus’s focus on a constructive and responsible approach to addressing the humanitarian challenges in the north- western regions of its country. Unfortunately, the Western countries are simply unable to demonstrate the same constructive spirit.”
2023-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9487 (2023) · source
“In these circumstances, the silence of our Western colleagues is telling. They simply must understand the risks stemming directly from such reckless action. Regional interventions by Westerners, under the pretext of allegedly fighting terrorism, continue to play an extremely destabilizing role. It is under that banner that the United States of America and its allies have been illegally present in Syria since 2014. At the same time, Westerners have actually stopped combating Da’esh and Al-Qaida in the Arab country. They have long been using the fighters that they have nurtured exclusively for their own purposes, including for subversive acts against the Syrian Government forces.”
2023-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9487 (2023) · source
“In the most recent period, the Israeli air force has not only repeatedly attacked the international airports in Damascus and Aleppo, which are the main gateways for United Nations assistance into Syria, but also carried out strikes in the areas of Deir ez-Zor, Abu Kamal and the Golan Heights. The most recent Israeli air strike on Syrian territory took place on 26 November. The Israeli air force once again attacked Damascus International Airport, which had just resumed operations following the previous air strike on 12 October. As a result, the functioning of the country’s airport was again suspended indefinitely. We regard the continued strikes on Syrian territory as a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of that State and basic norms of international law. We firmly condemn those events.”
2023-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9487 (2023) · source
“At present, the dire situation on the ground in Syria is being exacerbated by the sharp escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The country, like a number of its neighbours in the region, is literally teetering on the brink of being dragged into a large-scale confrontation. The blatant double standards of Western countries are most clearly demonstrated in relation to the Syrian Arab Republic. While baselessly asserting that Israel — the occupying Power — has a certain right to self-defence with regard to the occupied Palestinian territory, they clearly deny that right to Syrians and the indeed Lebanese when Israelis arbitrarily attack their territories, thereby provoking new waves of internally displaced persons.”
2023-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9487 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank the Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Ms. Rochdi, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Wosornu, for their briefings. On the political track, we support the resumption of the work of the Constitutional Committee in the context of advancing a Syrian-led and -owned and United Nations-facilitated political process. To that end, Syrian representatives must agree on the relevant venue. We expect that the Special Envoy, in accordance with his direct mandate, will do everything possible to facilitate that and not fritter away his efforts on other initiatives not agreed upon by the Syrian parties.”
2023-11-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9487 (2023) · source
“We hope that the agreement will be strictly enforced by all parties and will contribute to the development of further contacts in the interest of addressing acute humanitarian issues. We also hope that it will be an important step towards a general de-escalation of the situation. For our part, we intend to contribute fully to that, in close coordination with regional stakeholders. We all know that addressing the current outbreak in Israeli-Palestinian violence, however serious it might be, should not let us lose sight of the search for a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian issue, and we look forward to a focused discussion of the issue in the Council meeting on 29 November.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“The Israeli leadership cynically calls casualties among Palestinian civilians inevitable collateral damage and is ready to consider isolated pauses in hostilities only through the prism of its own military interests. Yesterday we learned of an agreement reached between Israel and Hamas on a four-day pause and an exchange of some of the hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails. One must be clear that those important agreements, the implementation of which will dictate the fate of thousands of people, was possible not following resolution 2712 (2023), but rather thanks to the effective mediation efforts of Qatar and Egypt in their contacts with the Hamas leadership.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“Immediately following the adoption of resolution 2712 (2023), the Israeli air force attacked the Al-Fakhoura and Tal Al-Zaatar schools, run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), as well as the Al Shifa and Al Ahli Hospital complexes. In a context where more than 200 bombings were taking place per day, according to the UNRWA Commissioner-General, Mr. Lazzarini, there are no safe places left in Gaza in which to shelter civilians. Even United Nations facilities, the coordinates of which are known to West Jerusalem and which are flying blue flags, are becoming targets. The United Nations rightly calls such actions blatant violations of international humanitarian law and a total disregard for humanity.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“Unfortunately, the Israeli leadership took full advantage of the United States- induced rift in the Security Council and did not hesitate to call the adopted resolution meaningless, declaring their intention to ignore it and continue clearing out the Gaza Strip. The question is still in the air as to how long the Council would tolerate such an attitude towards its own decision, which runs counter to article 25 of the Charter of the United Nations. Under no circumstances can we allow resolution 2712 (2023) to remain only on paper. Now that the resolution has been adopted, the Secretary-General must provide the Council with the proposals asked of him by the resolution, in particular regarding its monitoring mechanism.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“The absolute moral and humanitarian imperative to end hostilities was reduced to a vague and undirected call for some kind of pauses, which are not backed by Israel’s relevant obligations under international humanitarian law, or by monitoring or implementation mechanisms. At the same time, there is no doubt that no humanitarian pause can change the current unacceptable situation. An immediate ceasefire in the conflict zone is necessary. Only that will make it possible to avoid new casualties and ensure that the necessary humanitarian assistance is provided to those in need, particularly children.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“Unfortunately, that resolution was watered down and did not contain a demand for a ceasefire; neither did it provide for practical measures to ensure broad and unhindered access to those in need and to provide assistance to the victims. Russia therefore abstained in the voting, yielding to requests from the Palestinians and Arab countries themselves not to prevent the Council from finally being able to adopt at least some kind of product on the conflict for the first time since 2016. At the same time, the resolution left out Israel’s violent raids on the West Bank, the arbitrary air raids on Syria and the growing tensions along the Blue Line with Lebanon, which create a risk of the crisis spreading out further throughout the Middle East region.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“We are also concerned about West Jerusalem’s and Western States’ violations of the rights of those who express disagreement with Israel’s actions, which includes violations of the freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and the persecution of human rights defenders. We believe that, given those circumstances, the Council should make it a rule to invite representatives of Palestinian civil society, including women, to its meetings in order to obtain first-hand information on the situation in the occupied territory. All that the Council has managed to achieve against that completely unacceptable backdrop is to adopt, on 15 November, resolution 2712 (2023), submitted by Malta and concerning the humanitarian situation in the enclave, focusing on the impact of the conflict on children specifically (see S/PV.9479).”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“As a result, more children have died in Gaza over the past month than in all other conflicts over the past few years combined. Every day, dozens, if not hundreds, of children are killed or maimed in Gaza. Three children were killed by Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon. Palestinian children’s right to life is at stake, and our common task is to save those lives. The Secretary- General’s sobering words stating that Gaza has become a graveyard for children came nearly three weeks ago, yet children continue to die. We asked the Secretary- General and his Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflicts to keep the situation in Gaza under particular scrutiny and to inform the Council of the measures being taken.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“The mass killing and maiming of children committed by the Israeli army in the course of its operations, as well as attacks on schools and hospitals that have claimed innocent lives, are of the utmost concern. The strikes are also targeting other civilian sites — mosques, churches, refugee camps and the United Nations facilities where the women and children of Gaza seek refuge from the bombing — in blatant violation of international humanitarian law. We have heard allegations of Hamas command posts and bunkers being located in such facilities, but we have yet to see any convincing evidence of that. We would particularly like to stress the unacceptability of denying humanitarian access to children, which is an absolute priority given the appalling conditions in Gaza.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“At the same time, Israel is depriving the international community, including Russia, of the opportunity to provide the necessary humanitarian assistance to Gaza. The Gaza Strip remains cut off from steady and sufficient supplies of water, food, medicines and fuel, which Israel has allowed to trickle in selectively only one month after the start of the blockade. Such a situation is absolutely unacceptable, including in terms of protecting women’s rights and ensuring the implementation of numerous Security Council resolutions, including resolution 1325 (2000), on women and peace and security. Israel is obliged to take measures to comply with those documents, especially given that it has incorporated resolution 1325 (2000) into its national legislation and has declared its commitment to the subject.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“However, Israel’s subsequent retaliatory action against the Gaza Strip, including the ground operation, has resulted in bloodshed on an unprecedented scale in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in Gaza, where a veritable humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding. We have heard new statistics today that vividly illustrate its scope. The number of Palestinians killed in less than two months — around 14,000, half of them children — is staggering. The unprecedented number of internally displaced persons since 1948 — 1.6 million — is also appalling. In short, the worst predictions of a disaster of near-biblical proportions are coming true, and the Palestinians are facing it before our very eyes.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We fully support the convening of this emergency Security Council meeting on the situation in the Gaza Strip, with a focus on the protection of civilians, especially women and children. We thank the Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Sima Sami Bahous, the Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Catherine Russell, and the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, Ms. Natalia Kanem, for their briefings on the situation in the Palestinian enclave. Since early October, an increasingly tragic situation has unfolded in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone. The killing and violence to which Israeli civilians have been subjected cannot be justified. All terrorist acts against civilians, including hostage-taking, warrant categorical condemnation.”
2023-11-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9484 (2023) · source
“It does not matter how long we hear, in this Chamber, about the so-called revolution of dignity — no one mentioned that today, by the way, even though today is its 10-year anniversary — and the strengthening of Ukrainian independence. It is clear that 10 years ago, Ukraine lost its dignity and independence, and it has not regained it because it has not yet overcome the original sin of the Maidan. And when it does, it will stand as a shameful black page in the history of Ukraine and the world as a whole and as a grim reminder of what it costs to reject one’s own interests and fully subordinate oneself to the West.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“I hope the Council understands how two-faced, pathetic and inadequate that looks. I would like to think so. The tragic experience of Ukraine should serve as a warning for all countries where in recent decades the West planted its networks, consisting of tame non-governmental organizations and agents of influence, getting ready to use them for their narrow geopolitical purposes. We can see that having launched this clockwork mechanism — which remains dormant for the time being — the United States and its allies will stop at no crime and spare no victims. They will turn a blind eye to any, even the most heinous, human rights violations and continue to apply an egregious double standard.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“I would like my colleagues on the Council to think about this: they prefer to return from Israel, where, as Council members understand perfectly well, it is much safer than in the Gaza Strip, which is currently being flattened right before our eyes. But that is a situation that our Western colleagues prefer not to notice because of their double standards. So let me repeat my question to you. It is the same question that I posed at the previous Council meeting on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine (see S/PV.9464) — how many meetings on the humanitarian situation in Gaza has the Council convened? Let me answer that question: not a single one. It is easier to push forward lies and fabrications about alleged Russian attacks against civilians in the country to which, I repeat, refugees from Israel want to come.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“Every day, we come closer and closer to achieving those goals, with all the accompanying ramifications for Ukraine. I would like to respond to the remarks of all those who today repeated the hackneyed mantra that Russia supposedly is striking against civilian infrastructure in Ukraine — while in reality those are strikes against military or related infrastructure — making life in this country unbearable. In that regard, I would like to draw the Council’s attention to a recent piece of news in Israeli mass media and Agence France-Presse. The article speaks of 4,000 refugees from Israel with Ukrainian passports who decided to return to Ukraine because, according to them, it is safer there.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“After the resounding failure of the so- called summer counter-offensive, with colossal losses, the using up of military equipment and the waste of hundreds of thousands of NATO munitions, Kyiv is now concentrating on launching strikes against peaceful citizens. And for that, the long-range munitions from the West are very good. The Kyiv regime is using the terrorist methods of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham and is bragging about it. And in the absence of any readiness by Zelenskyy, his accomplices and Western puppeteers to talk about how we can get to a scenario where Ukraine is no longer anti-Russia and becomes a good neighbour with civilized development, we will continue pursuing the goals of our special military operation using military means.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“Unfortunately, a full-fledged discussion on those and other issues will probably not begin within Ukraine for as long as the Kyiv regime there feels the unconditional support of West, which continues to see the Ukrainian project as the best opportunity to weaken Russia, and for as long as the newly fledged dictator, Zelenskyy, continues to arrest or jail anyone who disagrees with him or even tries to get access to alternative news, let alone ask these questions. Therefore, the only thing we see on the ground thus far is a frenzied desire by the Kyiv regime to continue with its doomed attempts to inflict defeat on my country.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“Why are all the key decisions on defence, economy, foreign policy being made by the external sponsors instead of Ukrainians, and why are the country’s fertile lands being bought up by foreign corporations? Why are Western defence companies making tremendous profits by supplying Ukraine with armaments, while Ukraine is being supplied with old cast-offs that NATO countries, in any event, wanted to get rid of? Why is the President of the country almost sending the elderly and the children to the front lines, while trying to hold on to power at any price by tightening the screws and intensifying represssions against any kind of dissent or opposition?”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“We can see that the Ukrainian people are emerging from that intoxication, realizing the disastrous nature of the choice made on their behalf and starting to ask the authorities the right questions. For example, why is the canonical Orthodox faith of millions of people in this country being prosecuted and destroyed, while the schismatic church created and backed by the current authorities is being imposed? Why is the Russian language, native for most Ukrainians, being artificially ousted from the Government and public sphere, whereas in Western civilized States — and Ukraine thinks itself one — the rights of minorities, including linguistic rights, are being strictly and rigorously upheld?”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“Today there is no doubt that, 10 years ago, Maidan became an event that divided the history of Ukraine into a before and an after, splitting the entire Ukrainian society. It was not a choice between archaic Russia and the progressive West, as Kyiv and Western capitals are now trying to present the matter, but a choice between civilizational identity on the basis of a historic affinity among Slavic peoples on the one hand and the complete loss of national identity and transformation into a puppet of the West, devoid of its own opinion and thoroughly riddled with corruption and monstrous manifestations of nationalism on the other. Today more and more Ukrainians are becoming aware of that, regardless of Western and Ukrainian propaganda seeking to keep them in the dark.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“Ukraine has missed the chance for peace at least twice already: once in the case of the Minsk agreements and again in March and April 2022, during the course of the special military operation. At that time, owing to pressure from the United States and Great Britain, the Zelenskyy regime refused to continue peace negotiations with Russia and chose the path of senseless war, down to the last Ukrainian, in a futile attempt to inflict a strategic defeat on a nuclear Power to please the West. But we also remember another Ukraine, pre-Maidan — a country with which we are united by close historical, cultural and family ties. They are a people with whom we share a common religion and traditions, as the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church once again reminded the Council at the meeting we convened on 17 November (see S/PV.9481).”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“Even after being pushed back and signing the Minsk agreements, the Kyiv clique missed its chance to restore the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, thereby sabotaging the implementation of that document. As we know, for Kyiv and its Western backers, the Minsk agreements became a smokescreen for preparations for war with Russia and accelerated armament. After all, as we also already know very well, Maidan was conceived solely as a means of weakening Russia in the interests of the West. The Ukrainians, as well as the European ambitions of some of them, were cynically exploited in order to prepare the scenario we are currently witnessing in the country, which pertains in no way whatsoever to actual Ukrainian interests.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“The war criminals and collaborators Roman Shukhevych and Stepan Bandera, who were responsible for the massacre of Jews, Poles, Russians and Ukrainians themselves during the Second World War, were named heroes of Ukraine. Ukrainian nationalists today are not even bothering to hide why exactly they revere their Nazi idols. The leader of the ultra-right-wing Svoboda party, Oleh Tyahnybok, sang their praises for having “fought the Muscovites, the Jews and other evil creatures who wanted to take our Ukrainian State from us.” As a result, Crimea split from Ukraine. After people living in the south and south-east of Ukraine refused to submit to the new anti-popular regime, Kyiv launched a punitive operation against the civilian population of Donbas.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“Neither have there been investigations of such incidents as the burning alive of activists who disagreed with Maidan in the House of Trade Unions in Odesa on 2 May, or of the massacre of civilians in Mariupol on 9 May 2014. We will certainly continue to do everything we can to ensure that the perpetrators of those crimes — many of whom do not even have to think about hiding under the current Government in Kyiv — receive the punishment they deserve. Intoxicated by its own impunity and unlimited Western support, the Maidan junta began persecuting Russian-speaking Ukrainians, their rights and historical values, and set a course for the glorification of Nazi henchmen.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“There were also instances of political fraud: the very next morning, the opposition disavowed the agreement on a transition period with Viktor Yanukovych, which had been signed with guarantees from Germany, France and Poland, and removed him from power in violation of the country’s Constitution. Meanwhile, they also took over government buildings. We will provide an opportunity for participants in those events to talk in more detail about what happened during a special Arria Formula meeting of the Council, which we will hold on 8 December. Our Western colleagues turned a blind eye to that lawlessness, thereby becoming accessories to that original sin, due to which Ukraine is slowly but surely sliding into the abyss. Needless to say, the bloody provocation of Maidan has yet to be investigated.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“Essentially, that was blackmail by a small yet loud and highly active and motivated minority that enjoyed unlimited support from the United States and its allies. I will not go into details now about how radical nationalists, page by page, acted out the scenario of the Maidan coup prepared by the West. I will only say that its most important element was a criminal provocation of the radical opposition, which included the shooting of protesters in Maidan and resulted in the death of more than 100 people. It is well known today that those people were not killed by law enforcement officers.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“One of the architects of the Maidan coup, Victoria Nuland, admitted in an interview with CNN in 2014 that the United States has allocated $5 billion for that purpose since 1991. It is clear that the loss of such an investment was not part of Washington’s plan. In the evening of 21 November 2013, so- called activists waving EU flags began to gather in Independence Square in Kyiv. Even a week prior to those events, on 13 November, a well-known figure in the Orange Revolution of 2004 — the first unsuccessful attempt to establish a pro-Western regime in Ukraine — by the name of Yuriy Lutsenko called on the opposition to unite and take mass action in case their demands for European integration were not met.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“In addition, signing such an agreement created objective difficulties for trade and economic interaction between Ukraine and Russia and other States members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. All of that became obvious after the draft text of the Agreement, which had been developed behind closed doors, was published. The fact that the Government, guided by national interests, made the decision not even to cancel but to simply postpone that decision, which had far-reaching consequences, causing a sharp and coordinated reaction on the part of radical right-wing Ukrainian forces. Moreover, non-governmental organizations funded by the United States and its allies for many years became significantly more active.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“Since we have gathered here today, we deem it relevant to dwell on the events of that time in more detail. As we all recall, the formal reason for the start of protests on 21 November 2013 was the sovereign and perfectly legitimate decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to suspend preparations to conclude an Association Agreement with the European Union (EU). That decision was not made under pressure, nor was it in the interests of Russia, as Maidan historiographers are trying to claim, but rather with the aim of ensuring Ukraine’s national security. The country’s leadership realized that it was objectively impossible to modernize the economy in a limited time in order to maintain its competitiveness with European manufacturers.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We would like to sincerely thank Albania and the United States for convening this meeting — I say so without any irony whatsoever. Frankly, we ourselves were considering convening a meeting of the Security Council on Ukraine today, 21 November, because it is a symbolic day for the ongoing Ukrainian tragedy and a milestone in the context of the Ukrainian conflict. It was on this day 10 years ago that anti-Government protests in Kyiv began. Three months later, those protests resulted to a bloody anti-constitutional coup and an entire chain of subsequent tragic — not to say fateful — events for Ukraine. The outcome was a systemic crisis of the State, which today poses an acute threat to international peace and security.”
2023-11-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9483 (2023) · source
“As for the Russian Federation itself, one of the main objectives enshrined in our Government’s policy framework in the area of international development assistance is facilitating the elimination of existing potential sources of tension and conflict. Guided by that approach, we prioritize the transfer of technology and expert capabilities to the poorest and most vulnerable countries without preconditions for the development of industry and critical infrastructure. Russia is involved in projects in areas such as industrialization, digitalization and agriculture. We continue to assist with electrical power generation, including in the field of nuclear energy. We are also expanding our practice of providing Government grants, and we encourage our colleagues to follow our example.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“It diverts attention and resources away from the actual objective of promoting development as such and reduces the significance of that agenda within the United Nations system. We see a risk in using development issues to introduce certain universal indicators that could be used to justify preventive steps in the field of conflict prevention and be exploited as tools for interfering in the domestic affairs of undesirable States and putting political or financial and economic pressure on them. The appearance within the United Nations of ratings of countries’ conflict potential is unacceptable. Similar politicized practices already exist among individual rating agencies in the United States, including based on development. We emphasize the importance of refraining from such stereotyping.”
2023-11-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9482 (2023) · source
“In the global context, I would especially like to note the clear growth in the authority and appeal of the BRICS group — whose members are Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa — within which countries with different political systems are setting an example of a multipolar diplomacy aimed at reaching agreement on equitable and effective forms of trade, economic, investment and humanitarian cooperation, and in turn making a meaningful contribution to promoting development without external diktats. It is also important to emphasize that peace in and of itself does not guarantee development, nor vice versa. The growing popularity of making thematic links between various development and security elements, such as climate or access to water resources, is a cause for concern.”
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“There is increasing interest in the formats of South- South cooperation and trilateral interaction, which are designed to contribute to breaking the vicious circle of poverty, instability and inequality in development and to promoting the principle of effective ownership of national development strategies and enhancing the impact of individual and collective efforts.”
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“That process could be expedited by harnessing multilateral platforms that work on an equitable basis and with a constructive agenda. We see good prospects in exploiting the potential of associations operating in the Eurasian space, including the Union State of Russia and Belarus, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Gulf Cooperation Council. We also note the constructive and large-scale potential of Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative. Harmonizing their respective programmes of work will help to create a greater Eurasian partnership and find ways to ensure security and progressive economic development.”
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“At the United Nations, we often hear that approximately $4.2 trillion is needed annually to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. However, funding alone will not be enough. It is important to fundamentally alter the approach to assisting developing countries. We must also be realistic. It is unlikely that Western ruling circles will abandon their destructive policy of maintaining their dominance in the foreseeable future. However, the world is undergoing radical change, and there is a demand for alternative methods of ensuring global stability through the establishment of security mechanisms beyond the control of Washington and its satellites, as well as through the establishment of zones of pragmatic cooperation and development in various regions of the planet.”
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