Go to the media bankRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. File photoUN, Sep 24 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told how Western countries, declaring that they are not parties to the conflict in Ukraine, violate international conventions. «And even if we take the legal side of the matter, Do you remember that the Americans, the NATO members, and the EU say that they are not parties to the conflict,» the minister said at a press conference, speaking on the situation in Ukraine. He recalled the current Hague Conventions adopted in 1907. According to him, «one concerns the obligations of neutral powers in a naval war, and the other concerns a land war.» The documents describe which countries are neutral.
Lavrov called the expansion of the UN Security Council at the expense of the West ridiculous» neither Europe has declared itself a party to what is happening in Ukraine,» he said. The Russian minister also recalled how Ukrainian embassies and consulates general both in Europe and in other countries «engaged in direct mercenarism» on their websites. «Thus, the Western countries, which allowed this to be done on their territory, also violated the convention on neutral countries, thereby proving that they are not outside observers, but are directly involved in the conflict,» he concluded.
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