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There is a connection between the situation on the ground in Ukraine and the contours of a peaceful settlement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Channel One.
“As we stressed from the very beginning in that statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin said announcing this special operation, we, of course, above all, want for the Ukrainian people to be able to decide on their own how to live from now on,” the Russian top diplomat noted.
The US uses force ignoring the existing norms of international law and the UN Charter if it suddenly decides that something threatens its national security, Russian Foreign Minister said.
“When the US suddenly decided that there is a threat to its interests over 10 000 kilometres away, whether it is in the former Yugoslavia, in Iraq or somewhere else in the Middle East, without pausing, without any legal compunctions and without attempts to even look at international law and the UN Charter, troops are sent, civilian targets are being shelled,” the Russian top diplomat said.
Ukraine took a major step back by abandoning agreements reached in Istanbul with Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Russian TV Monday.
“I think that this step or two steps back were made above all on the advice of our American and British colleagues, may be, the Poles played some part here, the Balts”.
Statements made by Polish authorities clearly indicate Warsaw’s intent to send its forces to Ukraine under NATO peacekeeping flags, Lavrov said.
“Right now, the Americans and other Western states are trying to devalue this veto power by delegating UN Security Council prerogatives to UN General Assembly, where, […] by twisting arms, blackmailing, threats, up to threats against delegations’ bank accounts, places of education of their children, […] they gain a forced, forcefully achieved majority.
“This is a dangerous trend, because the Security Council, with its five permanent members that have veto power, is the last remaining island of international law,” he said.
The current situation in Ukraine will result in a treaty but its parameters will be defined by the actual combat situation.
The West denies Russia the right to defend its own borders and territories where Russians are suppressed.
“Considering themselves to have the right to ensure their security where they see fit, we are being denied the right to defend our own borders and territories where Russians live and where Russians have been suppressed for many years, being subject to shelling, to abuse, with their rights to language, culture, traditions being infringed upon,” he said.
The US displays no interest in contacts with Russia neither on Ukraine nor on other issues while this dialog can be useful.
Moscow and Washington currently do not have a channel of communication that the leaders of both countries can trust, Russian Foreign Minister said.
The US and the UK advise Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to tighten Kiev’s position at every round of talks with Moscow.
“The US gave up on practically all contacts because we were forced to defend the Russians in Ukraine, who had been bombarded for eight years without any reaction whatsoever form the West, except to encourage Russophobic and neo-Nazi actions of the Kiev regime, when the Russian language was outlawed everywhere − in education, in media, in everyday live, while the neo-Nazi and Nazi theories and practices were encouraged legislatively,” Lavrov said.
He also stressed that the US and its allies are using the term ‘rules’ that they apply when everyone is required to behave well, insisting not on respect for international law, but on respect for the world order based on the rules.
“These rules have not been translated in any way,” and they are not applicable to Russia, since it respects international law.
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