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Nebenzia

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“The reason for that remains the same: the aspirations of the so-called Pristina authorities to establish full control over the Serb-populated northern part of the province. In April, Pristina installed its proxies in four non-Albanian municipalities through staged elections that were boycotted by the Serb population. Despite the meagre 3.47 per cent turnout owing to the Albanian minority in those municipalities, the United States and the European Union (EU) acknowledged the elections as valid. As a direct consequence, the new so-called mayors, with the support of Kosovo special forces, took control of administrative buildings, which led to the serious surge in violence that occurred at the end of May.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Caroline Ziadeh, for her briefing on the situation in the province and for the insights she provided. We welcome the participation of Prime Minister Ana Brnabić of Serbia. We have heard the views of Ms. Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu. We were particularly amused by her insistent but — as was previously the case — clumsy attempts to implicate Russia in current events in Kosovo. Her attempts to present Kosovo as a beacon and model of democracy against the gloomy background of surrounding autocracies is worthy of sarcasm. During the six months since the previous Security Council meeting on Kosovo (see S/PV.9312), the situation in the province has significantly deteriorated.”
2023-10-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9450 (2023) · source
“Regional organizations can in principle make a very significant contribution to the maintenance of international peace and security. The key to their success lies in their efforts to resolve emerging problems through political and diplomatic methods, in compliance with the norms of international law, in which the United Nations plays the leading role, on the basis of the principles of the indivisibility of security, mutual respect and non-interference in the internal affairs of States. We are ready to engage in constructive cooperation with all regional organizations and members of the international community that are interested in working within that positive coordination system.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“Today that organization, which to a large extent consists of members of the European Union and NATO, has unfortunately lost its compass. The efforts undertaken by last year’s OSCE Chair, Poland, and this year’s Chair, North Macedonia, to promote the West’s agenda are blatantly flouting the OSCE’s fundamental rule of consensus and the principle of the sovereign equality of States. They have been imposing a Ukrainianization of the entire agenda. As a result, the organization is now paralysed and risks completely losing its role as a backbone in the European space. Addressing that crisis will require serious work and a return to the roots of its structure. To date, we have not seen a readiness to do that on the part of our opponents.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“For many years now, the alliance’s activities have focused on the strategic defeat of Russia. That aim is stated explicitly in NATO’s current doctrine documents. Much like the European Union, NATO today pays particular attention to Ukraine, which has become the main springboard for opposing Russia. Moreover, what has recently become noticeable is the alliance’s desire to expand its activity to the Asia-Pacific region to contain another country identified by Washington and Brussels as a strategic adversary — China. In the context of the confrontation pursued by the West, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which initially had a unique toolkit for conflict prevention and the peaceful settlement of disputes, has significantly deteriorated.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“As a result, each new round of negotiations ends in failure time after time and another escalation of violence in the region. The list goes on and on. It is clear that Brussels is motivated solely by geopolitical ambitions, the desire to develop new spheres of influence and to recolonize politically and economically vulnerable States. As a result, the EU’s involvement in international efforts to maintain peace and security leads only to violence, chaos and disorder. A similar neocolonial approach is being taken by the North Atlantic bloc, which is an obvious remnant of the Cold War. NATO operations have resulted in numerous civilian casualties, destroyed infrastructure, caused significant economic damage and led to the de jure or de facto collapse of States.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“For years, the EU has been consistently preparing Ukraine for confrontation with Russia, turning a blind eye to all the phenomena happening in that country which would be unthinkable in its own member States. By debasing its own values, the EU is supplying Ukraine with offensive weapons and military equipment, violating its own standards with regard to the unacceptability of the supply those kind of resources to conflict zones. The EU has not made a constructive contribution to the process of normalization between Armenia and Azerbaijan, rather it has only increased the divergences between those neighbouring States. During negotiations under the auspices of the EU in the framework of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, the EU went from being a neutral broker to openly supporting Kosovar Albanians.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“There is also great potential for strengthening regional stability through other regional organizations, such as the League of Arab States, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. That is more needed than ever given the efforts under way to resolve the Palestinian- Israeli conflict and the national reconciliation process in Myanmar. We deem the contribution to international peace and security of the European Union (EU) to be highly questionable. We are compelled to note that in recent years that organization has produced mainly destructive initiatives imbued with the logic of a zero-sum game and its own narrow self-interest.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“We welcome the strengthening of the authority of the African Union as a leading continental organization in international affairs, as reflected in Africa’s growing global role and influence as one of the most important pillars of the multipolar world. We commend the effective work of the African Union in countering threats posed by terrorist organizations, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Al-Qaida, Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab. We advocate the discussion of effective measures to increase the predictability, reliability, sustainability and flexibility of financing African peace operations under the auspices of the Security Council, in particular through assessed contributions to the United Nations budget.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“We commend the more than five decades of effective functioning of the Treaty of Tlatelolco, the first international legal instrument establishing a nuclear-weapon-free status for the vast and densely populated region of Latin America and the Caribbean. We stand ready to engage in productive cooperation with the States in the region on strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime. Despite the suspension of our country’s observer status within the Organization of American States, where we used to enjoy productive cooperation, in particular through the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism and the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission, we are ready to continue our specialized cooperation with some partners in Latin America and the Caribbean that continue to express interest in doing so.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“The work of the Eurasian Economic Union also provides significant opportunities to develop international mutually beneficial cooperation. With regard to the Latin American region, we can note the great potential of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA). CELAC brings together 33 countries from across the continent and is aimed at strengthening the political and socioeconomic unity of the region. It allows States with different interests and approaches to find common ground and joint solutions. ALBA is inspired by the Bolivarian principles of solidarity, justice and cooperation. The organization actively promotes the integration of the peoples of the region, based on respect for national sovereignty and the independence of each country.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“We intend to continue to contribute to the strengthening of the CSTO and to enhancing its capacity and authority on the international stage. We support further development of cooperation between the CSTO and the United Nations, including on peacekeeping, in accordance with Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations and based on the 2010 Joint Declaration. Cooperation on the maintenance of international peace and security is also a priority in a broader format — within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). That imperative was once again reaffirmed in the CIS leaders’ statement on international relations in a multipolar world, signed at the summit in Bishkek on 13 October. We also fully support the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s contribution to conflict prevention.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“Regional and subregional organizations often have a deep understanding of local realities and cultural, economic and social characteristics. Those organizations can serve as a bridge between national and international initiatives, ensuring more targeted and efficient conflict resolution. At the same time, mutually respectful and equal cooperation among Member States within those structures and in their relations with other members of the international community is also important. In that context, we would like to refer to the positive example of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which has genuinely contributed to regional stability for more than 20 years. Work is continuously being undertaken to counter common threats and challenges, including those stemming from the territory of Afghanistan.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We would like to thank Mr. Khaled Khiari; Ms. Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile; Mr. Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa; and Ms. Josefina Echavarría Álvarez for their briefings. We are grateful to Brazil for taking the initiative to discuss such an exceptionally important topic as the contribution of regional arrangements to the prevention and peaceful resolution of disputes. As we know, Chapter VI of the Charter of the United Nations give Member States the opportunity to avoid the use of force and to achieve sustainable and long-term solutions to conflicts based on mutual understanding and cooperation. The role of regional and subregional organizations in that context is undeniable.”
2023-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9448 (2023) · source
“Assuming that the Security Council has not been able to come up with an appropriate response to these challenges, we will initiate the resumption of the tenth emergency special session of the General Assembly on the protection of the Palestinian civilian population in order to have a comprehensive discussion of the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone and ways to settle it. A letter to the President of the General Assembly on this matter has already been written and will be dispatched forthwith.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“In that connection, we condemn attacks on diplomatic missions of foreign States. This is all happening while the Security Council sits idle. The Council is paralysed by the self-serving interests of some countries whose unilateral actions have not only failed but also triggered a widespread escalation of violence in the Middle East region. We are extremely concerned about the unprecedented scale of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza and the high risks of conflict spillover.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“The humanitarian blockade of the Gaza Strip is pushing the entire population — a population that is being sacrificed before our eyes — to the brink of survival. We call on the Israeli side to prioritize international humanitarian law, which has at its core the lives of Palestinian citizens and already fragile critical and medical infrastructure. Humanitarian access must be provided without delay. We call for an immediate ceasefire, an opening of corridors for the delivery of urgent humanitarian assistance to the affected areas of Gaza and to evacuate civilians, and for an immediate cessation of violence against civilians regardless of where they live. In a number of Arab and European States there have been outbreaks of large-scale unrest against the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing missile attacks.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“Against that worrisome backdrop, United Nations agencies, such as the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund, unanimously condemned the attack on the Al Ahli Hospital and called for immediate effective protection of civilians and medical infrastructure. At a briefing on the situation in Gaza yesterday, the deputy head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Joyce Msuya, noted that the number of victims in the current escalation in the Palestinian-Israel conflict, which has gone on for 11 days, has already exceeded the number of victims killed during the hostilities in 2014, which lasted more than seven weeks before a ceasefire was reached. That is truly horrifying. Humanitarian workers are dying as well. Approximately 1 million people have been forced to leave their homes in Gaza.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“In Palestine, the number of deaths is more than 3,500, and 10,000 people have been injured. Today those figures are even higher. According to United Nations reports, approximately 450 children have died in Gaza, 750 more remain under the rubble of the buildings destroyed during the air raids. More than 2 million people in Gaza still have no access to water, food, medical care, fuel or electricity. The only crossing on the border with Egypt — the Rafah crossing — is again coming under missile fire and has not been opened to let in humanitarian goods or to allow civilian evacuations. Some 1,000 Russian citizens and members of their families have become de facto hostages of the Gaza military blockade.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“The Council failed to send a clear, strong and collective signal calling for an immediate, lasting and observable humanitarian ceasefire. Today we are reaping the bitter fruit of that failure. Once again, it has become clear that the position of Washington and some other Western capitals did not make it possible for a natural and logical decision to be taken. Given the current circumstances, that was an absolute humanitarian imperative and a moral duty of all conscientious members of the international community. Furthermore, humanitarian considerations, the norms of international law and the root causes of the failure to settle Palestinian question, which we have repeatedly and insistently pointed out for years, clearly do not matter for them. In Israel, the number of deaths stands at 1,400 people, and 3,900 people have been injured.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“Our document outlined a number of specific urgent measures designed to stop the violence and civilian suffering, release the hostages, prevent the impending humanitarian disaster in that part of Palestine and avert the spreading of the conflict to other countries in the region. Given the extremely tense situation, it was necessary to act without delay. That is why the draft resolution we submitted did not contain any political elements or views or references to any party to the conflict, which could have complicated the process of reaching an agreement on it. Despite that, in full view of the international community, the Security Council, the primary body for the maintenance of international peace and security, was not in a position to take a decision that could have prevented the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“The air strike on the hospital, according to the most recent reports, resulted in more than 800 dead and wounded. We are calling for an objective investigation of this crime to be undertaken and for the perpetrators to be prosecuted. This is the price of the inertia of Council members, many of whom have procrastinated for the past 11 days since the escalation surrounding Gaza began. We warned the Council about this on Monday, when a number of Council members, guided by supposedly purely humanitarian considerations but in reality purely political considerations, did not support draft resolution S/2023/772 on a ceasefire submitted by the Russian Federation.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Together with the delegations of the United Arab Emirates and China, we initiated today’s emergency Security Council meeting in view of the tragic events in the Gaza Strip. Yesterday the Al Ahli Hospital in central Gaza City was destroyed as a result of air strikes. We are deeply shocked by what happened. The Anglican hospital was one of the 20 in northern Gaza that had received evacuation notices from the Israeli military. However, it was impossible to comply with that requirement, as Mr. Griffiths already stated, given the prevailing unstable situation, the critical condition of many patients and the shortage of ambulances, staff, hospital beds and alternative shelters for the displaced persons.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9443 (2023) · source
“The point is that we need to further develop our military industrial complex, which should account for more than 2 per cent of our gross domestic product. There are conflicts that need to be resolved with weapons, and we are prepared to provide those weapons.” We have no comment. That is the very essence of the United States policy — from the Middle East region to Ukraine and the Asia-Pacific region. We hope that, after today’s vote, our international partners will have no illusions about that.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9442 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We have just witnessed yet another demonstration of the hypocrisy and double standards of our American colleagues. While not opposing in principle the idea of adopting a humanitarian resolution in the Security Council, they were not genuinely interested in it and simply hoped to put enough pressure on Council members to have the draft resolution collapse without needing to veto it. As their attempt failed, they had to take their masks off before us today. I am not going to waste Council members’ time by belabouring this point. I think what has happened is crystal clear. However, I would like to refer to what the head of Lockheed Martin, James Taiclet, said yesterday when speaking with the American media. “It makes no sense to restrain Israel from military action. What is the point?”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9442 (2023) · source
“Those colleagues have made their choice, and they will have to bear responsibility for that choice before the citizens of their countries, as well as of the countries in the region and the millions of civilians who are living under that deadly threat.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9442 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): The voting on the amendment contained in document S/2023/776, to be inserted before operative paragraph 1 of draft resolution S/2023/773, on an immediate ceasefire, and on the amendment contained in S/2023/775, to be inserted after operative paragraph 2 of draft resolution S/2023/773, on a condemnation of the attacks against civilians, which were proposed by Russia, has made everything crystal clear. The delegations that either abstained in the voting or voted against those amendments were essentially against the cessation of the bloodshed in the Middle East. There can be no other explanation. Of course, colleagues in this Chamber will use formal excuses, such as claiming that the language of the amendments were not balanced, but those will all sound pathetic — it is as simple as that.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9442 (2023) · source
“The second amendment (S/2023/776) adds a new paragraph to the operative part of the draft resolution, calling for an immediate, sustainable and respected humanitarian ceasefire. If the amendments we have proposed are not included in the text of the draft resolution, it would not contribute to correcting the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. On the contrary, it would only deepen the divisions among members of the Security Council and polarize the positions of members of the international community. We urge the members of the Council to vote in favour of the amendments proposed by Russia.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9442 (2023) · source
“Humanitarian pauses will not help stop the bloodshed. Only a ceasefire can do that. In addition, the draft resolution still contains a number of political elements that, while condemning one side, do not send the proper incentive signals to the other regarding the absolute inadmissibility of deadly attacks on civilians and civilian objects in the Gaza Strip. The importance of that now, I think, is absolutely crystal clear to everyone. We have therefore proposed two amendments to address those shortcomings. The first (S/2023/775) introduces a new operative paragraph unequivocally condemning indiscriminate attacks on the civilian population and civilian objects in the Gaza Strip, including yesterday’s missile attack on the Al Ahli Hospital, as well as strongly condemning the blockade.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9442 (2023) · source
“We warned colleagues yesterday that we simply could not waste any time. I will speak frankly, since the time for diplomatic metaphors has obviously long passed. Everyone who did not support our humanitarian draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire (S/2023/772) must understand that they bear some of the responsibility for what happened in Gaza. Brazil’s draft resolution (S/2023/773), unfortunately, will not help to avert a repetition of that tragedy. It includes no direct call for a ceasefire — which is the most important element for de-escalating the situation on the ground. It is very important wording, which has been replaced by a call for humanitarian pauses, which are also limited solely to ensuring unhindered humanitarian access for United Nations agencies. But that is not the same thing.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9442 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): During consultations on 16 October, many Security Council members tried to dissuade us from calling for a vote on our depoliticized humanitarian draft resolution. We were asked to wait 24 hours so that members could submit a “consensus” draft resolution. We did not agree with that. And we were right, because in the end, after almost two days, today’s voting will be on a draft resolution that is only slightly, but very questionably, changed and was not even discussed with Council members. We regret that in the end the Council wasted another precious 36 hours, during which time the death toll increased: the strike on the hospital in Gaza yesterday evening killed hundreds of civilians. Against that background, inaction by the Security Council looks appalling.”
2023-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9442 (2023) · source
“We are extremely concerned about the unprecedented scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip and the elevated risk of the spread of the conflict.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“It has clearly demonstrated who is truly in favour of an immediate truce, an end to the indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip and the unconditional provision of humanitarian aid to the area’s population, and who continues to block a unified voice from the Council in the pursuit of narrow political goals. No one should harbour any illusions, based on the results of the voting and the comments that will follow. We believe that regardless of the outcome involving the draft resolution (S/2023/772) that we submitted, it has nevertheless fulfilled its mission of contributing to starting a substantive discussion of the reaction to this matter in the Security Council. Had we not taken the initiative, unfortunately, the discussion would probably have been limited to idle talk.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We regret that the Security Council has once again been held hostage to the selfish aspirations of the bloc of Western delegations. That is the only reason that it has been unable to send a clear, strong and unified message aimed at de-escalation. We are talking about the largest outbreak of violence in the Middle East in decades. The entire world was waiting with bated breath today for the Security Council to take decisive steps to stop the bloodshed, but Western delegations dismissed those expectations. We believe that the voting in the Council today is extremely revealing.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“We thank the delegations that co-sponsored our draft resolution. It is telling that our draft resolution has been co-sponsored by many members of the Group of Arab States, in addition to other countries, and that Palestine also expressed its support for the draft resolution. This is a purely humanitarian text, and we will not understand if any delegation decides not to support it for exclusively selfish geopolitical reasons. We call on the members of the Security Council to support our draft resolution.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“Its main element was a call for an immediate, lasting and fully respected humanitarian ceasefire. As Council members well understand, humanitarian efforts will not be possible without a ceasefire. Moreover, our draft resolution provides for condemning all violence and all terrorist attacks, the opening of humanitarian corridors and the safe release of all hostages. I emphasize that almost no fundamental well- argued objections by Security Council members with regard to the initiative we proposed have been put forward. Only one delegation objected in general terms, and that objection did not concern the substance of the draft resolution. On Saturday, 14 October, we asked the presidency to schedule a vote on our draft resolution for 16 October, and we opened the document for co-sponsorship by United Nations Member States.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): From the very beginning, Russia has been calling on the Security Council to respond to the unprecedented exacerbation of the current crisis. Unfortunately, for five days, there has been no movement in that direction. We underscore once again that we condemn what happened on 7 October and the deaths of Israeli civilians, as well as the deaths of civilians in the Gaza Strip. Given that the number of killed and wounded is increasing by the hour, we could not wait any longer, as precious time was being wasted with the repetition of the same discussions or the inaction of the Security Council, and on Friday, 13 October, we put forward the brief and purely humanitarian draft resolution S/2023/772 for consideration by the Council.”
2023-10-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9439 (2023) · source
“The sooner the Western sponsors of the Kyiv regime realize that and draw the necessary conclusions, the better it will be for the Ukrainians who have managed to survive, as well as for the Western countries that are increasingly undermining their fabled values every day in their blind support of the Zelenskyy regime.”
2023-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9436 (2023) · source
“Their goal is to damage Russia as much as possible through Ukraine and render the country as uninhabitable as possible, despite the fact that Ukraine and Ukrainians — those who live in peace with its neighbours and respect the rights of all its citizens, without discrimination — have never actually been under threat. Such a Ukraine had and has a future, unlike the criminal neo-Nazi regime of Zelenskyy, which, according to Mr. Arestovych, has formed an internal tyranny — the tyranny of a man who came to power on promises of peace in the Donbas and respect for the rights of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, but who did the exact opposite.”
2023-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9436 (2023) · source
“In order to complete the picture, I would like to add that, over the past few days, Russian troops have been engaged in active combat operations along almost the entire front line. Therefore, the so-called Ukrainian counter-offensive can already be formally considered finished. Its cost to Ukraine has unfortunately been the Kyiv regime’s mobilization of tens of thousands of recruits, most of whom did not want to fight in the first place — those who were able to surrender and remain alive have been lucky — and the destruction of hundreds of units of Western equipment. This is the only thing that the Kyiv regime can boast of during the past four months. Instead of ending the massacre, our Western colleagues continue to provide the Kyiv regime with weapons, prolonging the agony, in the same way a drug dealer prolongs the agony of a junkie.”
2023-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9436 (2023) · source
“Such support and impunity will serve to make the leaders of the Kyiv junta only more cynical and brazen. For example, the Head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, recently revealed that his country’s special units had tried three times to seize the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant despite the fact that the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mr. Grossi, admitted that Mr. Zelenskyy had personally given him assurances that there would be no action against nuclear power plants. I have brought all the preceding facts to the attention of Council members to give them a better idea of the actual situation in and around Ukraine.”
2023-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9436 (2023) · source
“Against the backdrop of the failure of the counter- offensive by the Kyiv regime, which is passively and at times actively supported by its Western sponsors in the egregious use of terrorist methods, it is now attempting to strike civilian objects in Russia. At the same time, details of the involvement of Western intelligence agencies in a number of such crimes are surfacing, and no one has tried to hide the fact that Ukrainian saboteurs who bombed the Crimean bridge in October 2022 were trained by the United Kingdom Special Forces. London is supplying the Ukrainian army with underwater drones, training saboteurs and providing them with intelligence, which makes the United Kingdom, together with the United States, a direct accomplice in the crimes committed by the Zelenskyy regime.”
2023-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9436 (2023) · source
“An economy that is based solely on the military does not lead to growth, hence why the standard of living in the country is falling. Contrary to the facts, Zelenskyy’s regime continues to promote its narrative abroad of exemplary success in combating corruption. That is despite the fact that the so-called First Lady of Ukraine, on her visit to New York in September, spent more than $1 million — that has surely come to Ukraine from the pockets of American and European taxpayers — in one of the most expensive jewelry stores in the world in a single evening. Such examples of the Ukrainian elite throwing money around abroad regularly appear in the news.”
2023-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9436 (2023) · source
“The scale of selectivity of Western humanism has always been astonishing. Against the backdrop of current challenges in the world, those countries really have shown their true colours. Of course, such an imbalance has not gone unnoticed. The President of Mexico, Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recently said that, instead of sponsoring the conflict in Ukraine, the United States would do well to pay greater attention to the problem of eradicating poverty in Latin America. It is positive to note that certain responsible representatives of the humanitarian wing of the United Nations have begun to talk about that issue openly. Thanks to the efforts of its Western sponsors, Ukraine is drowning in debt — according to the latest IMF data, its external debt this year will exceed 88 per cent.”
2023-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9436 (2023) · source
“The average volume of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes for African countries in 2023 was 237 per cent of the quota, but thanks to pressure from Western IMF shareholders, it was 677 per cent of the quota for Ukraine. The $15.6 billion assistance programme for Kyiv approved in January exceeds the six-month volume of IMF loans to all African States. With the approval of the IMF and the World Bank, the Kyiv authorities have received financing in the amount of more than $43 billion — more than half of the total amount agreed by the Bretton Woods institutions for the poorest countries with high levels of debt under the so-called Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, which has been implemented since 1996 and was intended to provide various debt relief mechanisms for low-income countries.”
2023-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9436 (2023) · source
“Since February 2022, the European Union (EU) has allocated $70 billion to Kyiv, including $37.8 billion in humanitarian and financial assistance. A total of $15 billion was spent on military supplies to Ukraine, and $17 billion on the placement of Ukrainian refugees in the EU. In June 2023, Brussels announced another aid package to Ukraine for 2023–2027, to the tune of €50 billion. Meanwhile, the EU has allocated a total of €4 billion to operations for the maintenance of peace and security in Africa over the past 15 years. Expenditure on food security in the region in 2023– 2024 will amount to €4.5 billion — 11 times less than what has been promised to Kyiv. Ukraine also enjoys preferential treatment with regard to credit support among Western-centric financial institutions compared to Africa and other regions of the global South.”
2023-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9436 (2023) · source
“The volume of financial assistance provided by the United States and its allies to the countries of the global South cannot be compared with what the West has allocated for weapons for the war with Russia in under two years. Ukraine received more than €80 billion for that purpose, with the total amount of funds allocated to it standing at €165 billion. Meanwhile, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, there are currently 363 million people in the world in dire need of some kind of humanitarian assistance. In order to meet the needs of all country-specific humanitarian plans this year, the United Nations requires $55.5 billion, of which only 32 per cent had been received at the end of September.”
2023-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9436 (2023) · source
“However, the funds generously allocated for such purposes could have been spent with much greater benefit — at the very least, on investing in pre-war Ukraine and developing its potential for good-neighbourliness, including with Russia, on the basis of support for measures and actions that are normal for any civilized State, in particular in the context of protecting the rights of national minorities. At worst, those funds could have been spent on implementing the Minsk agreements endorsed by the Security Council as the sole means of resolving the internal Ukrainian crisis, not to mention development projects in Ukraine itself, let alone in other countries in need. Yet Western countries prefer to stuff Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, including cluster munitions and depleted uranium.”
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“Therefore it would appear that it is the turn of Ukrainian pensioners to become cannon fodder. It is no coincidence that Ukraine’s 60–70-year- old “fighters” without any training are increasingly surrendering to Russian troops. But those who are behind the anti-Russia project in our friendly country of Ukraine do not care about that whatsoever. Our Western colleagues continue to pump Ukraine full of weapons and cash and demand that it achieve victory on the battlefield at any cost.”
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“It is no coincidence that the Verkhovna Rada began discussing a bill to abolish age restrictions for older soldiers — essentially, Ukraine’s so-called servants of the people want to remove the upper conscription bar so that their troops may serve until death. Meanwhile, calls in Kyiv for the recruitment of more young men are growing louder. The former top adviser of the Kyiv regime, Mr. Oleksiy Arestovych, who has already been mentioned today, is now working on a new political project aimed at ensuring Zelenskyy’s victory in any upcoming elections, and therefore somehow has the right to some controlled free-thinking. He admitted that it is already difficult to motivate 45-year-old Ukrainians, while 25-year-olds are still immature and prideful enough to be ready to fight. Only now Kyiv is running out of both 25-year- olds and 45-year-olds.”
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