Published on : 22/09/2022 – 23:01
This Thursday, the UN Security Council met to discuss the Ukrainian file. The opportunity for Russia to make its voice heard, following the numerous condemnations, since Monday, at the podium of the UN General Assembly.
With our special correspondent in New York, Christophe Paget
From the outset, the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who intervened first, attacked Vladimir Putin and the war he is waging in Ukraine. « We can’t let President Putin get away with this “, he declared during this meeting of the Security Council of l’ON whose theme was the situation in Ukraine and the ” impunity of crimes committed since Russia invaded the country in February.
His Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, wanted to return to the theme of impunity once morest Ukraine. ” Since 2014, extremist, Russophobic and neo-Nazi national forces have seized power in Ukraine through a coup. The Ukrainian army and nationalist fighters kill residents of Donbass with impunity. The ICC did not react to any of these crimes he said, adding that Kyiv should its impunity to its Western partners ».
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A speech immediately condemned by the representative of the United Kingdom James Clevery. ” I just heard a new catalog of dishonesty and misinformation “, he scolded in front of Sergei Lavrov present in the room, but voluntarily installed at another table, away from the other representatives. ” He has just left, I am not surprised: I do not think that Mr Lavrov wants to hear the collective condemnation of this Council “Reacted James Clevery.
Sergei Lavrov also rejected the work of the International Criminal Court in which Russia “ has no confidence “. A declaration which earned the head of Russian diplomacy a reminder from Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: “ Wherever crimes are reported and where the Court has jurisdiction, whoever uses a weapon, who launches a missile, must realize that accounts must be rendered ».
« If we are united around these basic principles, the law will have a considerable role for peace and security in Ukraine, but also in so many other regions of the world. “, he concluded.
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