Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that Western countries are trying with all their might to politicize Ukraine’s humanitarian problems in the United Nations (UN) and give them an antiRussian character.
In discussions with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, the senior official indicated that confirmation of such claims could be found in the rejection yesterday on the humanitarian resolution submitted by Moscow to the UN Security Council.
Lavrov said that accepting his country’s proposal would have solved many problems on the ground that the ICRC team in Ukraine is also facing.
He stressed that the Russian authorities are interested in solving the humanitarian problems in Ukraine, removing artificial obstacles to the evacuation of civilians and the delivery of relief supplies.
Russia calls UN resolution on Ukraine ‘pseudohumanitarian’
In contrast, the UN General Assembly today adopted a Westernbacked resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, with 140 countries in favor and 5 votes against.
The resolution was cosponsored by several countries including the US, Ukraine, UK, Georgia, Germany, Lithuania and Latvia. The document was drawn up after Mexico and France failed to adopt their resolution at the UN Security Council.
Russia, Belarus, Eritrea, North Korea and Syria voted against, while 38 other countries abstained.
At a press conference following talks with the head of the ICRC, Lavrov said his country was not surprised by the unity of Westerners.
Moscow, according to the headline, has long known the principles of the work of its US counterparts and other AngloSaxon countries and knows that threats, blackmail and handwringing guarantee that unity.
The path of Russophobia
“Now we are prepared for the fact that the West has taken the path of Russophobia,” said the Russian foreign minister.
He explained that these nations do not like that the Kiev government, which they have armed against Russia, which they have opposed to neoNazi ideology and practices in recent years, is now being held accountable for its crimes.
The West sees Ukraine as a “tool of Russia’s Russophobia and containment policy,” the minister said.
“As such an instrument, everything has been allowed to the Kiev regime, including the killing of civilians for the past eight years, the ban on Russian language, culture, journalism, the exclusion of Russians from the indigenous peoples of Ukraine,” he said.