Nebenzia said during a meeting of the UN Security Council that Western officials show double standards when they “sound the alarm” about the detention of UN employees in Yemen, but at the same time they ignore Israel’s killing of dozens of the world body’s employees in Gaza and the attacks against the “Blue Helmets” in Lebanon.
Last June, the ruling Houthi movement in northern Yemen announced the arrest of a spy cell linked to the CIA, accused of carrying out intelligence and sabotage activities in Yemen for decades. In total, as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk noted, 13 people were arrested, six of whom were OHCHR staff. The Russian mission to the United Nations expressed its concern about this matter.
The Russian diplomat stated that “it is important to avoid double standards,” pointing out that “the desire of representatives of a number of Western countries to sound the alarm about the problems of United Nations employees in Yemen contrasts sharply with their reaction – or rather, its almost complete absence – to the killing of dozens of people.” UN personnel in Gaza are under Israeli attacks, as well as regular attacks by the Israeli army on UN interim peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, which, however, continue to perform their duty and remain on alert.”
Nebenzia stressed, “It is important that our Western colleagues extend their principled position to include the situation around UNRWA, which the Israeli authorities are trying to expel from the Palestinian territories.”
The Russian diplomat called on Security Council members “not to allow such blatant and obvious double standards.”
Source: RT
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