It is “alarming” and “regrettable” for Sergei Lavrov that Italy, Germany and Japan (the Axis powers of World War II) voted for the first time against a resolution proposed by Moscow on the inadmissibility of the “glorification of Nazism.” The Russian Foreign Minister said this on the benches of the UN General Assembly, which has been meeting since Tuesday in the Glass Palace in New York. “This is regrettable,” he said, “it calls into question the sincerity of these states’ remorse for the mass crimes against humanity during the Second World War and contradicts the conditions under which they were admitted to the United Nations as full members.” According to Lavrov, special attention must therefore be paid to these “metamorphoses that violate the position of the world majority and the principles of the UN Charter.” On November 4 last year, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly approved the Russian draft resolution to “combat “The glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the promotion of contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance”. On this occasion, Italy – like other European countries – rejected the resolution, as Moscow’s true intention was clear : to find a “single” global platform to justify this “denazification” project that the Kremlin has always cited as the main reason for its aggression in Ukraine.
“The EU thinks it is a blooming garden and everything else is a jungle”
Furthermore, there was no lack of the usual attacks on the West in his speech to the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations, which, according to Lavrov, “wants to Ukrainianize the international agenda and continues to militarize the Russophobic Kiev regime.” The head of Moscow diplomacy then called on Western politicians to “read the UN Charter and remember the principle of equal sovereignty of all countries, large and small, while the US considers it better than everyone and the EU “Thinks it’s a garden.” blooms and everything else is a jungle. What the West wants – defined by the Foreign Minister as an “empire of lies” – is therefore clear: “defeat Moscow strategically,” said Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man.
“The world is at a crossroads to avoid a major war”
According to Lavrov, today “humanity” is “once again, like many in the past, at a crossroads.” “It depends only on us,” the Moscow official continued, “how history will develop.” It is in our common interest to avoid triggering a major war and the eventual collapse of international cooperation. “Mechanisms introduced by generations of our predecessors,” is the Russian Foreign Minister’s warning to the UN General Assembly. And when asked why he didn’t listen to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech there, the Russian foreign minister shrugged: “I knew what he was going to say and it was a waste of time.” I had over 30 bilateral conversations and they were a lot more useful.”
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