Former Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl is currently making a name for herself again. At the invitation of Russia, she was allowed to appear at the United Nations Security Council in New York on Thursday. In doing so, she praised Hungary, which is calling for an end to arms deliveries to Ukraine. The Austrian Foreign Ministry has noted a “summer slump”.
“Four weeks ago, the animals and I arrived at our new home in Ryazan Oblast,” the former minister says on her Telegram profile. In the small wooden house, it still looks more like camping, but the internet works perfectly. That’s why she can operate a home office at the “highest level” and even establish a connection as far as New York.
She then warned the UN Security Council via video link that Western arms supplies would have serious consequences for Europe. The meeting was boycotted by the EU and Ukraine. Kneissl, who was seen as an ‘analyst’ by Russian Chairman Vasily Nebensja, stressed, in line with the Russian line, that the weapons destined for Ukraine could end up on the illegal arms market in Europe.
Great praise for Orban
In the eyes of the expatriate minister, however, Hungary is doing everything right. As the “lone voice in Europe,” the country is fighting to stop arms shipments to Ukraine. “As a neighboring country, Budapest is aware that ex-fighters can change professions after the end of the fight and trade weapons on a large scale,” says Kneissl.
From this wooden house Kneissl gave her ‘fight speech’ to the UN Security Council:
In Russia, the Internet is super fast, says Kneissl:
Of course the dog was there too:
“It seems that the summer crisis has also reached Russia,” a spokeswoman for the Austrian Foreign Ministry responded to the performance to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform. There is no other explanation for the fact that a regular guest of Russia Today and other similar media is speaking as an ‘expert’ before the United Nations Security Council. Particularly explosive: the words come from a spokeswoman for the ministry that Kneissl himself headed between 2017 and 2019.
“Political refugee” in Russia
Kneissl was Austria’s FPÖ-nominated foreign minister from 2017 until the Ibiza scandal of 2019. Critics see it as completely in the service of Russian propaganda. She not only invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to her wedding in Styria in 2018, but also met him personally several times. Even after the start of the war in Ukraine, Kneissl attracted attention with Russia-friendly statements.
The former minister repeatedly describes herself as a “political refugee” and accuses the Alpine republic of a witch hunt against her. Constant death threats and a de facto ban on work forced her to turn her back on her homeland. She moved first to France, then to Lebanon and finally to Russia, where she now heads the think tank “Gorki Center”.
Source: Krone

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