Russia vetoes UNSC resolution condemning referendums in Donbass other liberated Ukrainian territories
Russia on Friday blocked a US-sponsored resolution that condemns the referendums held in the Donetsk and the Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as in the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions on joining the Russian Federation.
During a UN Security Council meeting yesterday, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya described submitting the draft resolution for voting as a “provocation”, pointing out that the results of the referendums indicate clearly that the people in these regions don’t want to return to Ukraine and that they freely opted to join Russia.
Four countries- China, Brazil, India, and Gabon – abstained from voting.
The draft resolution proposed by the United States and Albania, considers Russia’s organizing of the referendums as “illegal”.
“Do you seriously expect Russia to consider and support such a draft?” Nebenzia said in a statement directed at the US. “And if not, then it turns out that you are intentionally pushing us to use the right of the veto in order to then wax lyrical about the fact that Russia abuses this right.”
US does not care about Europe facing dark and cold winter : Nebenzya
On the other hand, Nebenzya said at a UN Security Council meeting dedicated to an act of sabotage against the Nord Stream gas pipelines, The United States does not care that Europe is waiting a dark and cold winter.
“The US is hastily moving European production facilities amid an energy crisis, it’s getting advanced personnel, technologies and production resources, that is, everything that has facilitated the united Europe’s development for decades,” the envoy noted.
“European residents are left alone with their problems. However, no one overseas cares that Europe is waiting a very dark, cold and long winter,” Nebenzya added.
If an investigation into an act of sabotage against the Nord Stream pipelines is conducted without Russia, questions will arise about its impartiality, Nebenzya told.
“I was asking questions [at the meeting]. We are not a court here to decide who is to blame. Besides, there was not yet an investigation, but any investigation that would be conducted cannot by definition be with Russia absent in it because Russia is the owner of the pipeline, Russia is the most interested party. If somebody thinks that they can investigate excluding Russia from the investigation, I think that we have reasons to doubt about the objectivity of that investigation,” Nebenzya pointed out.
Hamda Mustafa