Nebenzya denies allegations of Tehran providing drones to Moscow

Allegations by Kiev and Western countries that Iran is providing unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia are fake news, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine.

“Ukraine and its Western sponsors are trying to promote another piece of fake news about Iran allegedly supplying unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia in breach of the UN Security Council Resolution 2231,” he noted.

According to Nebenzya, Western countries are trying to exert influence on the UN Secretariat. “The US went even further and in a letter openly demanded that the Secretariat conduct an investigation, though the Secretariat is not authorized to do that,” the Russian envoy stressed. “We expect that the Secretariat will explicitly demonstrate that it does not intend to follow these instructions from the Westerners in breach of the UN Charter and will not carry out any investigations,” Nebenzya said.

Russia expects that the United Nations Secretariat will confirm that it will not conduct an investigation into the origin of drones in Ukraine, Nebenzya said.

“We expect exhaustive confirmation from the Secretariat that it does not intend to follow, in violation of the UN Charter, those instructions from Westerns and will not be carrying out any investigations. Provided that in order to appease the Western capitals the UN experts do engage in some kind of a pseudo-investigation groundlessly invoking the provisions of Resolution 2231, we can revise the whole range of our relations with the UN Secretariat whose impartiality can no longer be spoken of in this case,” he said.

Russia and Iran are strongly rejecting allegations related to drone supplies.

Source: Tass

Edited by Hamda Mustafa