“I am convinced that any sovereign State that prides itself on understanding its responsibility to his people I would do the same in our place”, the Russian Foreign Minister said this Saturday in the plenary session of the General Assembly regarding his country’s military operation in Ukraine.
Sergey Lavrov spoke on the fifth day of the high-level general debate of the deliberative body to affirm that given the inability of Western countries to negotiate and the Ukrainian government’s war against its own people in the east of its territory, Russia had no choice but to launch its “special military operation”.
The Russian foreign minister explained that the operation launched by his country on February 24 was carried out to protect Russians living in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, in addition to eliminate threats to Russian security created by the NATO military alliancewhich are constant since 2014, after the coup of the current Kyiv regime.
With referendums, people do as they are instructed
Speaking of this weekend’s referendums in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson to decide whether to become part of the Russian Federation, Lavrov argued that Ukrainian President Volodymyr himself Zelensky had told the inhabitants of those regions that if they thought they would be better off in Russia, they should leave the Ukraine. and go to that country.
“People are just doing what they are instructed to do,” he said.
He pointed out that the crises surrounding the war are growing and that the international situation is rapidly deteriorating, and accused Western countries of undermine confidence in international institutions and encourage negative tendencies in the United Nations instead of opening an honest and committed dialogue.
backyard
Likewise, he blamed the United States for trying to turn the world into its backyard and, together with its allies, punish those who differ from its vision, through “illegal unilateral sanctions” that violate the UN Charter and harm poor citizens in the poorest countries by affecting access to medicines, vaccines and food imports.
Regarding sanctions, Lavrov assured that those imposed on his country by the United States and the European Union are a “declaration of economic war against Russia”.
The Russian minister denounced the America’s intention to divide nations and wanting to form blocs through the dilemma “either they are with us or they are against us”, without the possibility of a third option.
In the same vein, he went on to point out that instead of an honest dialogue there has been “disinformation, staging and provocations”.
The poorest countries still do not benefit from the Black Sea agreement
On the other hand, Lavrov praised the mobilization of efforts commanded by the General secretary of the UN, António Guterres, to overcome the world food and energy crisis exacerbated by the war through the Black Sea Grains Initiative.
However, he argued that the poorest countries are still not benefiting and criticized the United States and the European Union for not completely removing obstacles to Russian exports, arguing that they have been trapped in European ports.
Russophobia
The foreign minister asserted that Western countries have launched a Russophobic crusade and that the NATO considers Russia a threat to its dominance of the region and beyond it.
Russophobia has reached unprecedented proportionsand Western powers have made no secret of their ambition to defeat Russia militarily, he said.
Furthermore, he emphasized, they are trying to “destroy and fracture Russia… What they want to do is remove from the global map a geopolitical entity that has become too independent.”
The minister said that the western alliance seeks impose your will and expand your influence and hegemony beyond Asia, South America and Africa.
To end his speech, he quoted Dag Hammarskjöld, who was the second Secretary General of the UN from 1953 to 1961.
“The UN was not created to take humanity to paradise, but to save it from hell”, he underlined, highlighting the timeliness of those words. “They call us to understand our individual and collective responsibility to create the conditions for peaceful and harmonious development for our future generations, and everyone must show political will for that,” Lavrov concluded.
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