Nebenzya: The West has taken hostage the developing world, pushing it towards hunger

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya. File photoUN, May 19.The West has taken the entire developing world hostage, putting it on the brink of starvation with its desire to break the back of the Russian economy, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said at a UN Security Council meeting. «The truth, gentlemen, is that you are too carried away by futile attempts to break the back of the Russian economy, isolate our country. I'm not talking now about the inevitable devastating consequences for your own economies,» Nebenzya said. both feet – you will have to answer to your own taxpayers and voters for the consequences of this policy in your domestic markets,” he added. hostage to the entire developing world, really pushing it to the brink of starvation.» «And whatever you say here today only you can change this situation, gentlemen,» he concluded.