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Nebenzia

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“It is in those negotiations that the parties must work out solutions to all the fundamental issues pertaining to the final status of the illegally occupied Palestinian territory. The stagnation in the peace process, compounded by provocative unilateral steps such as we are currently witnessing, could detonate the situation on the ground at any moment, leading to a new cycle of violence. We reaffirm Russia’s principled and consistent position, as reflected in the relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, in support of a comprehensive and long-term settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in accordance with the principle of a two-State solution. The outcome of that process should be the realization of the legitimate national right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent State within the 1967 borders.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9107 (2022) · source
“Against that background, we were relieved and pleased to note the agreement reached on a cessation of hostilities in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone. For our part, from the very outset, we have engaged in energetic efforts in the interests of a ceasefire and maintained intensive contacts with key regional partners. We note in particular the mediation efforts of the Egyptian and Qatari leadership, which ultimately made it possible to reach an agreement on a ceasefire. The United Nations, including Special Coordinator Wennesland, also made an important contribution to resolving the situation. The recent exacerbation of the situation is the result of a combination of factors, primarily the absence of a direct negotiation process between the Palestinians and Israelis.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9107 (2022) · source
“As we have heard today, according to the latest information at least 44 Palestinians were killed, including 15 children, with more than 300 injured, as a result of Israeli attacks. We would like to express our condolences to the families of all those killed or injured. We strongly condemn the use of force and exhibitions of violence against the civilian populations of both Palestine and Israel. We are deeply concerned about such events, which could lead to a resumption of a full-scale military confrontation and a further deterioration in the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. We call on all the parties involved to exercise maximum restraint, uphold the norms of international humanitarian law and work to prevent a new escalation of hostilities.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9107 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on the developments in the Middle East. We are grateful to the Chinese presidency for convening today’s meeting to consider the worsening crisis in Palestinian-Israeli relations, the danger of which is not limited to the region. We are very concerned about the rapid deterioration of the situation in the conflict zone, which resulted in an armed confrontation and numerous human casualties. The latest escalation was provoked by Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip on 5 August, in response to which Palestinian groups launched a large-scale indiscriminate shelling of Israeli territory.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9107 (2022) · source
“Of course, in order to hide their guilty consciences, they say absolutely nothing about the negative effect that the illegal unilateral sanctions on Russia — a vital supplier of food and fertilizers — are having on the food market, disrupting established financial, transport and other supply chains, while claiming that agricultural products and chemicals are not subject to sanctions. At the same time, they slyly gloss over the fact that those transport, financial and insurance chains are a key object and factor in the export of agricultural products and fertilizers. Meanwhile, they are travelling around Africa to dissuade Africans from cooperating with Russia and threatening them with secondary sanctions if they do.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“We hope that the Russia- Africa summit planned for next year will enable us to discuss current areas of cooperation in depth and aim at developing our cooperation on a friendly, equal and forward-looking basis. We constantly hear Western countries making the same accusations that Russia is, to coin a phrase, exporting hunger. These utterly groundless allegations represent their attempt to dress up the real reasons for rising food prices, which are the results of the coronavirus disease pandemic and stupid policies, including those related to Western countries’ currency issuance and their own channelling of commodity and food flows towards themselves.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“We are working on the possibility of cooperating with the African Centre for Study and Research on Terrorism in Algiers, which is affiliated with the African Union, and we are ready to continue sharing our experience in that area. We continue to devote considerable attention to training the continent’s personnel. Police officers and military personnel from African countries, including future peacekeepers, are trained in Russian educational institutions every year. We also provide substantial support for civilian specialties. Approximately 27,000 African students are currently studying in Russia, including more than 5,000 whose expenses are paid through Russia’s budget.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“We do not impose anything on anyone; we do not instruct others and we do not force them to be friends against anyone. We are satisfied that our assistance is highly appreciated by the countries of the continent. At the same time, we believe that African States have the sovereign right to choose their partners. Moreover, the diversity of those partners makes it possible to strike a political balance in many regions and break the often- enslaving dependence on former colonial Powers. Given the increasing terrorist threat, we believe that it is important to develop the potential for cooperation with African partners on counter-terrorism issues, both in a bilateral format and in regional and international forums.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“However, it is important to emphasize that the key to the success of regional efforts is a common assessment by the countries of the region of the existing threats and ways to overcome them, a genuine readiness to bear the risks of addressing them and the establishment of a well-coordinated command-and-control system. As far as funding modalities are concerned, whichever is appropriate, it is important that host countries have room to make their own policy decisions on countering the threats. In that regard, agreeing on a common African position on the modalities for financing their operations and the use of the African Union Peace Fund is key. Russia has always supported African States, and today we continue to contribute to their capacity- building.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“At the same time, as a pretext, distrust of African efforts is often mentioned, or special demands are put forward related to human rights and the like. There is no need to look far for examples of the active role of Africans in maintaining peace and security on their own continent. The African mission in Somalia continues to operate. The joint actions of Mozambique, the Southern African Development Community and Rwanda in countering terrorist threats in Cabo Delgado, the African Union regional effort to eliminate the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda and the fight against Boko Haram have all worked well.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“We believe that it is justified for African countries to raise the issue of providing material and financial assistance for the maintenance of international peace and security, including through the partnership between the United Nations and the African Union. We agree that it is important to enhance predictability, reliability and flexibility in terms of funding for African operations and joint missions. As a matter of principle, we do not object to considering the possibility of expanding United Nations participation in such missions, and we are ready for further constructive dialogue in that regard. However, we note that this discussion has been going on in the United Nations for many years, and it is well known which countries oppose the adoption of significant decisions.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“Recently, there has been a growing understanding that regional efforts are preferable, and in some cases irreplaceable. Africans, as a rule, have a better and deeper knowledge of the local context. Unfortunately, we have seen many examples of African mediation efforts being sidelined or deliberately thwarted by external actors. That includes Libya, South Sudan and many other files. In the recent past, there was an unwillingness to take into account the clear position of the African Union and subregional organizations on lifting the arms embargo on South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. Those steps are long overdue, as they prevent national security forces from effectively stabilizing their own States.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“If we talk about the United Nations as a whole, the main focus in helping to strengthen States should be on socioeconomic assistance, creating favourable conditions for the development of society, building effective national education and health-care systems and preventing a brain drain. At the international level, it is important to achieve concrete results in eliminating financial and technological distortions, overcoming discrimination and double standards in the provision of funds through the institutions of the Bretton Woods system. Without a qualitative breakthrough in those areas, fragmented State-building and peacebuilding efforts cannot produce sustainable results. In speaking about stability in Africa, one cannot avoid the question of silencing the guns.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“We invariably proceed from the fact that African States have their own historical and cultural paths and that many contemporary problems are linked to a colonial past, arbitrarily drawn borders and a complex ethnic, tribal and religious structure. Under such conditions, the imposition of third-party, primarily Western, State and economic models on them may prove counterproductive. In most cases, prescriptive actions are limited to pressure and the threat of sanctions. In accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, legitimate restrictive steps can be applied by the Security Council only to curb threats to international peace and security, primarily to end violence. But those tools should not be used to ensure political dominance, and it is all the more unacceptable for them to be supplemented by economic blackmail.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“At the same time, African issues still account for more than half of the Security Council’s agenda. For our part, we are convinced that effective assistance to Africans can be carried out only on the basis of mutually respectful dialogue, with strict respect for their sovereignty, political independence and territorial integrity. Yet we very often hear views in this Chamber, and they are expressed in an admonitory tone, that African States need democratic transitions, timely elections, reform and the strengthening of State institutions. In many cases, that is true. However, the question arises as to what extent those issues are the business of the Security Council and what exactly it can do in order to help effectively.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“In a number of cases, the well- being not only of individual countries but also of entire regions has been dealt a particular blow by external foreign intervention, as was the case with the events in Libya in 2011. Despite that, we cannot fail to pay tribute to the efforts being made by the Africans themselves in terms of the sustainable development of their political and social systems and strengthening the institutions of the African Union and subregional organizations. The African Agenda 2063 was adopted; the African Continental Free Trade Area was launched; work is under way to implement the flagship initiative of the African Union to end armed conflicts on the continent; and a continent-wide Peace and Security Architecture is being developed.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are grateful to Mr. Bankole Adeoye, African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security; Ms. Cristina Duarte, Special Adviser on Africa to the Secretary-General; and Mr. Muhammad Abdul Muhith, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh and Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their informative briefings. We particularly thank our Chinese colleagues for organizing an open debate on such a topical subject, especially for our African friends. There is no doubt that African States need international support to build national capacities to resolve the problems of the continent. There are many of them: ongoing armed conflicts, the increase in terrorist threats, the weakness of State institutions, poverty and epidemics.”
2022-08-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9106 (2022) · source
“We maintain regular cooperation with the de facto authorities, which have consistently focused on key issues facing the country, including the terrorist and narcotics threat, political inclusivity, humanitarian assistance and human rights, including those of women and girls. The Afghan issue is also at the centre of our efforts in the context of the Moscow format and other regional mechanisms, as well as the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. We intend to continue to provide to the Afghan people and the de facto authorities of the country every possible means of support so as to mitigate the consequences of the socioeconomic crisis in the country.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“Russia, as a friend and neighbour of Afghanistan, has traditionally provided humanitarian assistance through the relevant United Nations agencies. Also bilaterally, we have been providing humanitarian goods, including food, warm clothes and medicine. We deeply regret the fact that the unlawful sanctions against our country are affecting, inter alia, our cooperation with humanitarian organizations, severing logistical and financial links. If necessary, we will stand ready to provide assistance to Afghanistan through grain supplies. We stand ready to continue to contribute to the advancement of a peaceful settlement and national reconciliation in Afghanistan.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“We attribute tremendous significance to the efforts of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. We trust that the Mission will continue to focus closely on the tasks specified in the mandate, namely, coordinating humanitarian assistance and facilitating post-conflict recovery in Afghanistan. At the same time, it will be crucial for the Mission to have a constructive, trust-based dialogue with the de facto authorities; to provide assistance in capacity- building in order to create the conditions necessary to effectively resolve problems in a manner that takes account of regional and cultural specificities and that is based on the best practices of regional neighbours, including the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“Destabilization will benefit only the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other groups, including the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Jamaat Ansarullah. The creation of additional hotbeds of tension will play into their hands. We all are well aware of ISIL’s plans to create a caliphate and to expand its influence in the Central Asian region and then to the Russian Federation. There are persistent acute issues related to narcotics production and smuggling. Afghanistan remains the world’s leading opiate supplier, and we are aware of certain steps by the de facto Government authorities to curb that threat. However, those efforts alone cannot suffice. Clearly, Afghanistan requires comprehensive assistance from the international community to develop alternative agricultural crops.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“We urge Western donors to stop capitalizing on the Afghan issue, to return the country’s resources and to begin to provide comprehensive assistance to normalize the socioeconomic and humanitarian situations without reservations or preconditions. Ultimately, those States bear the main responsibility for the outcomes of their 20-year presence in the country. The maintenance of stability in Afghanistan is central to regional efforts towards a peaceful settlement. We believe that that needs to be the overriding priority for the entire international community, as any inaction now will have even greater negative global consequences in future.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“However, unfortunately, what we have seen is that a number of countries continue to misinterpret its content to justify the unilateral restrictions. The already precarious humanitarian situation is exacerbated by the Afghan economic collapse and the complete paralysis of the banking system. Against that backdrop, we deem outrageous the attempts by certain States, under any pretext, to halt the resumption of work between Afghan financial operators and international banking systems and to indefinitely delay efforts to unfreeze Afghan assets. Such actions cast doubt on the sincerity of colleagues’ statements about their interest in the stabilization of the situation in Afghanistan.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“We value certain steps taken by the international structures and financial institutions, including the World Bank, to alleviate the humanitarian situation. Unfortunately, those measures remain insufficient to improve the lives of ordinary Afghans in a lasting way. Humanitarian assistance from abroad has a limited effect on mitigating social tensions. In December 2021, resolution 2615 (2021) was adopted. It was designed to provide a window of opportunity to step up immediate humanitarian assistance through all channels. The provisions of that resolution are a response to the oft-asked question about ways to provide unimpeded assistance under the sanctions regime pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011).”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“We take note of the selfless efforts of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other humanitarian agencies and their contributions to assist Afghanistan. We welcome the fact that humanitarian workers now can access regions that they were unable to prior to 15 August 2021. We understand, however, that certain challenges remain. It will take time and patience to overcome them. At the same time, a number of problems have remained unresolved for decades in Afghanistan. We are confident in that connection that the commitment of humanitarian agencies to maintain active dialogue with the de facto authorities will help to make significant progress in that regard.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“Therefore, what seems hypocritical are attempts by our United States and NATO colleagues to shift responsibility to the international community as a whole for the current crisis situation in Afghanistan and for the recovery of the country, as well as attempts to force the destitute Afghan people to pay for the 11 September attacks, which they had nothing to do with. Back in the times of the Soviet Union, more than 140 facilities were built in Afghanistan to form the backbone of its economy and, in the 20 years of NATO’s presence in Afghanistan, not a single enterprise was built, with the Afghan economy directly relying on international financing. We appreciate the efforts of those representatives of humanitarian agencies who are working on the ground.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“Quality of life indicators have dropped by a third. The population of the country has been enduring one of the fastest- growing humanitarian crises in the world and is literally on the brink of survival. The country is beset by starvation, destitution and unemployment. Production and manufacturing are in decline. The agricultural sector is suffering from drought, and there are acute shortages of seeds, foodstuffs and fertilizer. The spread of the coronavirus infection has also had devastating consequences first and foremost for the most vulnerable population groups, including women and children. Against that backdrop, unfortunately, the donors conference on Afghanistan held on 31 March under the auspices of the United Nations did not rise to expectations.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“They should be aware of the realities on the ground, and they should be enduring those difficulties alongside the people. We are pleased that representatives of the countries of the region have once again been given the floor to discuss this issue, which is of great importance to them. We wish to voice our genuine condolences to the de facto authorities and the people of Afghanistan in connection with the devastating earthquake, which claimed the lives of a thousand people. We closely read the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in the country (S/2022/485). Six months have elapsed since the most recent comprehensive discussion of the Afghan issue in the Security Council (see S/PV.8954). Unfortunately, during that time, the humanitarian and socioeconomic situations have continued to deteriorate.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We wish to thank the Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Martin Griffiths, and the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, Mr. Ramiz Alakbarov, for their assessments of the situation in Afghanistan. Since August 2021, they have undertaken tremendous efforts on the ground which, we are confident, have saved the lives of millions of Afghans. We have also closely listened to the briefings by the civil society representatives. At the same time, we wish to note the following. Traditionally, we proceed from the following premise. If the Security Council invites representatives from civil society, then these people should be from Afghanistan.”
2022-06-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9075 (2022) · source
“Millions of Ukrainians are waiting to be liberated from it, as the attitude to Russia’s army of the people in the liberated territories shows. Our special military operation will be completed and its aims will be fully realized.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“And if they do not feel that way, why are they supporting the Cancel Russia boycott campaign launched by Ukraine’s political technocrats against Russian writers, musicians, artists and sportsmen and women? Is that not hate speech and policy? Incidentally, we regularly hear that from the representative of the Kyiv regime in Security Council meetings, who with Western countries’ support insults our country and our President and spews threats at Russian diplomats. And none of Kyiv’s Western supporters restrain him. But however hard they try, the agony of the criminally Russophobic and neo-Nazi Kyiv regime can only be prolonged, not stopped. The regime was doomed in 2014 when it launched its criminal war on its own people.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“Each of those countries has a direct responsibility for prolonging the Ukrainian crisis and for the death of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers, shoved to the front by corrupt Ukrainian officials as cannon fodder. Those countries are spending billions on a proxy war with Russia till the last Ukrainian standing, which is in itself a true incitement to violence. They also pander to rampant Russophobia in their own countries, thereby indulging the Poles, Czechs and Baltic peoples who have participated in that for so long. There are anti-Russian posters in some of their shops and bars saying that they will not serve Russians. How is that different from racism if we replace the word “Russians” with the words “black people” or “Jews”? Why are they so uncomfortable with those kinds of associations but not when it comes to Russians?”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“Furthermore, the West has been providing Ukraine with weapons, even long-range artillery, for targeted strikes on Donbas and the destruction of the Russian- speaking civilian population. The United States, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Türkiye, Sweden and the Baltic countries are not even the entire list of the main suppliers of military equipment, worth billions of dollars, to the Ukrainian regime. Just last week, European and American weaponry aimed at Donbas killed six civilians and injured more than 30.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“What we want to cauterize in Ukraine is its burgeoning neo-Nazism and nationalism, which has steadily turned the country into the anti-Russia and into a direct threat to us and the inhabitants of Donbas. And regrettably, our Western colleagues are directly involved in that Ukrainian tragedy. What we are seeing is genuine incitement to violence and Russophobia in Ukraine. Western sponsors pulled the Kyiv negotiations team out of the diplomatic dialogue aimed at finding solutions and began competing with one another to convince themselves and the whole world that a solution could be found only on the field of battle with Russia. The originator of one of those phrases, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, spoke last week in the Council (see S/PV.9065).”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“In conclusion, I want to underscore that, despite the surge of primitive Russophobia and racism in Ukraine — behaviour that our African colleagues also experienced as they tried to organize the evacuation of their students during the first few days of our special military operation — our positive attitude to the Ukrainian people, culture and language has not changed. Ukrainians are our brothers and friends. It is just that Ukraine’s current leaders have been implementing someone else’s geopolitical agenda that is foreign both to us and to the Ukrainian people. Today we heard accusations that we deny the Ukrainian people their identity and want to obliterate Ukraine and cauterize everything Ukrainian. That is absolutely not the case.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“I will just share some of the most recent Russophobic steps taken by Ukrainian authorities — a ban on receiving an education in Russian, on imports of Russian books and on studying Russian literature, even as foreign literature, in Ukrainian schools and universities. Some members will say that Russia has only itself to blame. However, in the light of what I have already said, those steps look like a logical continuation of the policy that the Ukrainian authorities have consistently followed since the Maidan coup d’état. It is just happening faster now.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“The Ukrainian authorities, encouraged and goaded by our Western colleagues, had no intention of stopping there. On the eve of the start of our special operation, we received reliable information that Kyiv had completed preparations for a new large-scale offensive in Donbas. Those plans were thwarted. We could speak at length about Ukrainian nationalism and its hateful rhetoric. We decided to save time and prepared a selection of statements by representatives of the official authorities of Ukraine and well-known and popular public figures there. We will distribute them shortly as an official Security Council document so that members can understand what real hate speech is in Ukraine today and how it is used to justify violence against the Russian-speaking population.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“The world learned from Petro Poroshenko’s recent revelations that Ukraine never intended to implement the package of measures for implementing the Minsk agreements, which the Council has been trying to achieve for seven years based on its resolution 2202 (2015), but simply used it to gain time to make military preparations against Donbas and Russia. And it did so with the patronage of our Western colleagues, using the time to put together new Russophobic actions and projects, including a totally discriminatory law on the Russian language, the persecution of the Russian- language media and the pursuit and murder of Russian- speaking politicians, journalists and public figures, hundreds of whom have suffered all over Ukraine during the post-Maidan years.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“For example, in May 2019, Semen Semenchenko, a former Verkhovna Rada deputy and participant in the punitive Donbas operations, said, “As I see it, Ukraine needs a strategy for depopulating Donbas”. And once again, that call was not just on paper. It is being implemented by nationalist neo-Nazi groups such as the Azov Battalion, the Aidar Battalion and others when they shell civilian neighbourhoods in Mariupol, Kharkiv and Severodonetsk, to which there are hundreds and hundreds of witnesses. The only way one can act like that is if one hates the people of Donbas, and Russians generally, with all one’s heart — just like the politicians I mentioned.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“Following in his leader’s footsteps, Mykhailo Podolyak, Adviser to the President of Ukraine, said that the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics are inhabited by “dirty, worthless individuals”, “bandits and tiny dwarfs who are a complete waste of space”. In April 2019, Andrei Reva, Ukraine’s Minister of Social Policy, said about the citizens of Donbas, “I feel no pity whatever for any of them. I feel pity for the soldiers and officers with families who died there for that scum.” I would like to point out that those are not statements by some kind of marginal radicals. They are members of the country’s senior leadership and prominent politicians. Like their idols in the Third Reich, Ukrainian nationalists see the solution to the Donbas issue as freeing up living space.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“With her call to “destroy Moscow”, Iryna Farion, as a member of the Freedom party in the Verkhovna Rada in 2014, stated the main goal of this war: “This is what we live for and why we came into the world, to destroy Moscow, not just the Moskals on our lands” — meaning Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens — “but the black hole in European security that should be wiped off the world map.” Speaking at a concert for fighters in the nationalist battalions participating in Kyiv’s punitive operation against Donbas, then-comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy cried out in ecstasy, “Guys, hats off to you for protecting us from that scum.” His rhetoric remained the same when he became President, and in November 2021 he declared, in reference to the people of Donbas, “There are representatives of people, but not all representatives of people are human beings — there are other species as well, I believe”.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“In 2014, first Oleksandr Turchynov and, subsequently, President Poroshenko, instead of launching a dialogue about the place of Russian culture and language in Ukraine, attacked their own people, the Russian-speaking population of Donbas, ordering air strikes and bombing peaceful cities. Poroshenko made clear the fate that was in store for the residents of Donbas when he said, “We will have jobs; they will not. We will have pensions; they will not. We will have support for people, for children and pensioners; they will not. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens; theirs will be sitting in basements. [...] That is how we will win this war”.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“In August 2014, the pro-Maidan journalist Bogdan Butkevich called the residents of Donbas “superfluous people.” He said, “Donbas is not just a depressed region. There are a massive number of useless people there. [...] There are about 4 million people in the Donetsk region, and at least one and a half million of them are superfluous.” The story again did not end with calls to “slash the Moskals” and “waste the Russkies” — I apologize for the unsuitable language, but I am quoting. With the support of the West, the Kyiv authorities decided to put those words into action.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“One example was Borys Filatov, a Verkhovna Rada deputy and later mayor of Dnipro, who in March 2014 in his capacity as an official in the Dnipropetrovsk administration said, “In my opinion, there is nothing terrible in expanding Crimea’s autonomy and making Russian one of the official languages. It will help to avoid an escalation of tensions and safeguard Ukraine. [...] We have to give these scum these kinds of promises and guarantees and make whatever concessions are necessary. Then we hang them. We hang them later”. Those were not empty threats either. Suffice it to recall the more than 40 Russian-speaking activists who were burned alive in Odesa in May 2014. The inhabitants of long-suffering Donbas are also well aware of that.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“A series of laws infringing on their rights were enacted. In the post-Maidan years, with the help of Russophobes such as Iryna Farion, whom I just mentioned, the Kyiv authorities cultivated and institutionalized as State policy a hatred of everything Russian, including its culture, language and civilization itself, along with those who embodied it, including Ukrainian citizens. Kyiv called anyone who opposed the unlawful Maidan authorities terrorists, separatists, puppets and inhuman. Intolerance accompanied by violence became the Kyiv regime’s calling card.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“Following the Maidan anti-constitutional coup, this Russophobe, who as it happens was in charge of language and humanitarian issues in the Ukrainian Parliament, complained in an interview, “Fourteen per cent of Ukrainians say that Russian is their native language. That means we have 5 million degenerate Ukrainians who must be saved, even if we have to isolate those who do not speak Ukrainian”. I am citing this to explain how Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine were treated following the Maidan coup in 2014. The Kyiv junta’s very first steps were a direct incitement to violence against the Russian-speaking population. The entire population of the country was divided into first- and second-class citizens. Everyone who identified either as an ethnic Russian or simply a Russian speaker fell into the second category.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“As a result, the new statehood of once-multicultural Ukraine was modelled according to Western bidding on a foundation of primitive Russophobia, and therefore imbued with the ideology of hatred from the very start. Against its own national interests, Ukraine chose the path of becoming an anti-Russian geopolitical project instead of genuine sovereignty. That was not easy to achieve in the essentially Russian and Russian-speaking south- eastern region of Ukraine. The vain attempts of a well-known Russophobe and multi-term Verkhovna Rada deputy, Iryna Farion, who repeatedly declared that all Russians were mentally retarded, are a case in point.”
2022-06-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9069 (2022) · source
“However, given the fact that when Ukraine became independent, Russians and Russian speakers made up at least 60 per cent of the population, the Ukrainian authorities had to postpone the realization of their Russophobic agenda. The denial and soon the denigration of the historical past they shared with Russia, and the hatred of everything Russian, were introduced into society gradually, year by year. It is important to point out that the United States and its Western allies were very interested in the establishment of this Russophobia-based Ukrainian nationalism, which they saw as an excellent opportunity to sever the historical ties between Ukraine and Russia in the service of their geopolitical needs.”
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“One of the ideologues of Ukrainian nationalism, Mykola Mikhnovsky, monuments to whom can be seen all over Ukraine, left to posterity his concept of “Ukraine for Ukrainians,” whose essence he himself articulated as “All people are your brothers, but Moskals, Polacks, Romanians and Yids are the enemies of our people”. And those were not empty words. For example, during the war the militants of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army murdered hundreds of thousands of Poles, Jews and Russians, with a level of cruelty that apalled even the country’s Nazi occupiers. Is it any wonder that antisemitism, racism, and Russophobia are currently flourishing in today’s Ukraine?”
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“We just want to say that one of its founding fathers, Dmytri Dontsov, put together the theory of integral nationalism, which he borrowed from Charles Maurras, the Frenchman who in 1899 set up a unit of nationalists. I shall not go into detail here, but I will just say that this theory is based on the ideology of hatred and favours a caste-based society, the immoral achievement of aims through brutality and cruelty, the dominance of an active minority over and the overall majority and the superiority of the Ukrainian race. Of course, all that is leading to hatred towards Russia as the “kingdom of darkness” and towards the Russian people. But we will still find a way to alert members to all the details of Ukrainian nationalist theories.”
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