Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Vasily Nebenzya. File photoUN, Mar 18The West, when preparing a humanitarian resolution on Ukraine, was more interested in blaming Russia than in solving humanitarian problems, Vasily Nebenzia, Russia's permanent representative to the organization, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. Earlier, Mexico and France submitted their draft humanitarian resolution to the Security Council, but could not agree with partners text. Western representatives advocated that the document must necessarily contain a condemnation of Russia's actions in Ukraine and recognize it as an aggressor. Moscow, however, opposes this — thus, Russia would have vetoed such a project in the event of a vote.Nebenzia accused the United States of «pouring gasoline» into the conflict in Ukraine As a result, France and Mexico decided to seek a vote on their resolution in the General Assembly (GA). Meanwhile, unlike the decisions of the UN Security Council, resolutions of the UN General Assembly cannot prescribe coercive measures against the state.
"After <…> the text was developed by France and Mexico, it immediately ceased to be humanitarian and was filled with political formulations that had nothing to do with humanitarian issues. Without this, as we were clearly told, the Western countries do not need the project", said Nebenzya.
He pointed out that in order to get an anti-Russian product, Western countries are ready to promote it not in the Security Council, but in the General Assembly, ignoring the fact that such a document will not give humanitarian workers anything. «Therefore, Russia submitted its draft to the Council, containing everything that humanitarian workers need it. There are no only political assessments. We are told that the humanitarian resolution presented by Russia does not suit the Western countries,» the permanent representative noted. >Ukraine divided the West»This betrays the true goals of our sponsors of the first so-called humanitarian resolution of the Security Council. And this is just real hypocrisy and cynicism,» he said. to a negotiated ceasefire in Ukraine for the withdrawal of civilians. As the permanent representative pointed out, this is due to pressure from Western countries on the UN states so that they do not support the Russian project. The vote was scheduled for Friday. March 15, 11:57 InfographicHumanitarian Collection Points for Donbas RefugeesInfographicViewAccording to the draft resolution, the Security Council calls for «a negotiated ceasefire to ensure the rapid, safe, voluntary and unhindered evacuation of all civilians.» At the same time, the Security Council emphasizes the need for the parties to agree on humanitarian pauses for this purpose. The text, a copy of which is at the disposal of RIA Novosti, also states that the UN Security Council requires the full protection of civilians, including humanitarian personnel and people in vulnerable situations , including women and children. In addition, the text of the resolution calls not to use civilian infrastructure to host military installations, and not to install them in densely populated areas.
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