UN secretary-general under Western pressure on Ukraine – Russia

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claims Antonio Guterres has made statements outside his remit under the UN charter

Speaking with the United Nations special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, on Wednesday, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, has lamented what he described as the UN secretary-general bowing to Western pressure over the situation in Ukraine.

Lavrov said that, much to Moscow’s regret, it has turned out that the UN secretary-general “has yielded to Western pressure, and, in recent days, made several remarks regarding the situation in eastern Ukraine that are unbecoming to his status and fall outside his remit under the UN charter.”

Lavrov went on to say that Moscow had analyzed statements made by Antonio Guterres and his predecessors. Never before had the UN secretary-general made such remarks about any other previous armed conflict, he said. Russia has notified the UN secretary-general of its assessment.

Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Guterres had slammed Russia’s decision to recognize the sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) as a “violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.” The UN secretary-general warned that Moscow’s move was a “death blow to the Minsk agreements endorsed by the Security Council.”

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February 22, 2022 at 11:13PM
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