Nebenzia: Sanctions against Russia will lead to a severe crisis in the world
New York (ST): Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, warned of an economic crisis of “historic dimensions” in the world due to Western sanctions against Russia.
Russia Today website quoted Nebenzia as saying during a session of the UN Security Council last night that “the real reasons that threaten the global food market with dangerous fluctuations do not lie in Russia’s actions, but in the hysteria of limitless sanctions that the West launched against Russia without thinking about the people of the global south and the citizens of Western countries,” adding that “the West’s attempt to distance Russia economically, financially and logistically from the channels of cooperation that had been arranged years ago has begun to turn into an economic crisis of historical proportions.”
He pointed out that “reducing tensions on logistical, transport and financial links, ensuring the continuity of supplies and establishing stability in international agricultural and food markets lies only by abandoning the illegal restrictions imposed by one party.”
On the Russian special military operation to protect Donbas, Nebenzia stressed that Russia is strictly implementing its international obligations, and therefore there will be no threat to the Ukrainian soldiers who will lay down their arms.
Nebenzia criticized Western calls for a humanitarian truce in Ukraine, pointing out that the position of those countries is illogical, as they rejected the Russian draft resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, which “included a number of steps to settle the humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine above all,” noting that “based on this background the statements made by Western delegations seem hypocritical.
K.Q.