Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made sharp attacks against the West and the ‘Nazi regime in Kiev’ during the OSCE Ministerial Council. Several foreign ministers condemned Lavrov’s tirade, and US chief diplomat Antony Blinken called it a “tsunami of disinformation”.
In his speech, Lavrov complained about a new Cold War that could turn into a “hot” war, and delivered a scathing assessment of the OSCE, which he said “no longer plays a meaningful role in any area.” At the same time, he listed what the organization must take care of: the “racism” of the Ukrainian government, the investigation into the explosions on the Nord Stream pipeline or the events in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, where in April 2022 “bodies were carefully classified and journalists were served on the tray”.
Baerbock: “You can fool yourself”
This blatant denial of the Russian mass murder of the civilian population there caused outrage among Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, among others. He sharply rejected Lavrov’s statements “about the barbaric acts of Russian troops in Bukha and other places of Ukraine.” His German colleague Annalena Baerbock spoke of Lavrov’s “intolerable lies”. “You can fool yourself, but you cannot fool us, the 1.3 billion people (in the OSCE region),” she said, according to the dpa news agency.
Lavrov also accused Western states of “selectively” applying human rights and international rights principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, signed in Helsinki during the Cold War, to expand their hegemony in Europe. the Indo-Pacific.
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister left the room during the speech
US Secretary of State Blinken has sharply rejected the statements of his Russian counterpart. We must not allow the ‘tsunami of disinformation’ to mislead us into believing that Russia does not care about its own security, but rather pursues an imperial project ‘to wipe Ukraine off the map’.
As early as 2014, ruler Vladimir Putin said the Ukrainian people were “part of the Russian people.” In 2021, he labeled Ukraine an “artificial state” that would one day be united with Mother Russia. The US would defend the Helsinki principles and the free choice of Ukrainians regarding their future. Even before Blinken, the first speaker in the plenary was Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha. Without naming him, he described Lavrov as a “war criminal.” When his Russian colleague spoke, Sybiha left the room.
Source: Krone
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