Go to mediabankMOSCOW, Oct 6Moscow considers the position of the UN Secretariat on referendums and Ukraine biased, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. UN Secretary General António Guterres said on September 29 that the accession to Russia of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions following the results of referendums cannot be accepted — in his opinion, plebiscites cannot be considered a genuine expression of the people's will, as they took place outside the legal framework of Ukraine and on the territory under the control of the Russian Federation. «First of all, the Secretary General cannot have any independent» position, especially on territorial issues. exercise the functions of the chief administrative officer of the UN. We indicated this in the comments of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN and the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, «the statement on the agency's website says. Zakharova noted that during her briefing on October 5, the official representative of the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric as if he was trying to justify himself.»
September 30, 19:53 UN: Guterres did not want to insult Russia in a statement on referendums «However, if you look closely, we did not hear anything new and encouraging. Once again, the biased and unprincipled approach of the secretariat to the Ukrainian story was confirmed. We are convinced that this situation must be changed It does not paint the UN secretariat and its leader,» Zakharova noted. Dujarric said that Guterres made his statements on September 29 based on the decisions of the General Assembly, she added. According to her, this refers to resolution 68/262 voted in March 2014 and subsequent anti-Russian decisions of the 11th special session of the General Assembly. At the time, there was Security Council resolution 2202, which approved the Set of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements,» the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said, noting that Kyiv «openly violated the provisions of this document.» In general, there are no «turns» in the rhetoric of representatives of the UN Secretariat. The only thing what they were able to do was to “polish” the Russophobic statements of the most rabid supporters of Kyiv a little,” Zakharova added. 45The Foreign Ministry spoke about the discussion of the possible transfer of the UN headquarters from the United States
