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Ukraine, Georgia, UK, USA and EU at the UN General Assembly supported the resolution on solidarity in the fight against coronavirus COVID-19, and the refusal of trade wars and unilateral sanctions
Moscow-Live.ru / Anton Krylov Document at the end of March introduced Russia. Sponsored by the 28 member States of the UN, said the permanent representative of the Russian Federation
Moscow-Live.ru / Anton Krylov Informed the UN Secretary General, antónio Guterres, in a letter to the G20 countries called for a ban on customs duties and quotas, as well as to the lifting of sanctions to help combat the pandemic COVID-19
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Ukraine, Georgia, UK, USA and the European Union at the General Assembly The UN did not support the resolution on solidarity in the fight against coronavirus COVID-19, and the refusal of trade wars and unilateral sanctions. The document at the end of March introduced Russia. Sponsored by the 28 member States of the UN, said the permanent representative of the Russian Federation.
“the Consensus adoption of the document submitted to us did not work. This prevented Ukraine, Georgia, UK, USA and EU. I’m sorry that a small group of States of the apologists of the sanctions policy was not ready to respond to the call of the UN Secretary General and are unable to compromise their political approaches and interests. To give a global and unified response to the threat of a new pandemic will be much harder. May suffer a huge number of people, primarily in developing countries”, – stated in the message.
Earlier, the UN Secretary-General, antónio Guterres, in a letter to the G20 countries called for a ban on customs duties and quotas, as well as to the lifting of sanctions to help combat the pandemic COVID-19, writes “Kommersant”.
In the Russian version of the resolution provided for the refusal of trade wars and of application adopted in circumvention of the UN security Council unilateral sanctions as well as the recognition of the coordinating role of the who in the fight against the pandemic, providing assistance to the most affected States, especially developing countries, combating financial speculation with commodities.
In the comments of the permanent representative said that the Russian side is interested to “hear and see in writing the logic and arguments of our block of the draft Declaration by the EU, the US and the UK.” At the same time noted that Russia “would be pleased to save and to liberate Ukraine and Georgia from these efforts, as their arguments, as usual arrogant and politicized.”
“Despite the fact that Russia has proposed the Declaration was blocked by a small group of States we will continue coordination with the unifiedmillenniumi on this issue. We expect that all interested countries will join it, so the world heard the call to promote practical cooperation in all areas in the fight against the pandemic,” added the permanent mission of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, Russian diplomats have said that “welcome” a similar resolution of the UN General Assembly, initiated by six countries (Ghana, Indonesia, Liechtenstein, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland). “It is an important signal for the rallying of the efforts of the member countries of the UN and international organizations. Another important message is to pay attention to the goals of sustainable development. We supported its adoption by consensus,” the document says.
However, the authors of this resolution, the assurance of the permanent mission of the Russian Federation, “did not take into account the wishes of other States in the text that left behind a number of absolutely critical issues for urgent solution of which calls on the UN Secretary General and other senior UN officials”.
we will Remind, Russia is suffering from international sanctions for six years. They were proposed in 2014 after the annexation of Crimea. The UN General Assembly by an overwhelming majority are not recognized industry. The position of Russia was supported only by Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
In connection with the territorial dispute over Crimea Ukraine, USA, European Union and other countries imposed a series of sanctions against Russia, Russian businessmen and politicians, who visited the Crimea public figures and leading business on the Peninsula companies, both from Russia and from other countries. Further sanctions were introduced for other aggressive moves from Russia, including interference in elections and the chemical attack of the British at Salisbury, where he was poisoned ex-GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
According to experts, which led RBC to 2019 Russian sanctions lost about 800 milliard rubles, and the growth of its economy has slowed by 1.2 percentage points.
However, the grandstanding, the Russian President Vladimir Putin argues that Russian sanctions will not only not hurt, but benefited. According to him, the economy has adjusted to the shocks, the ruble has become more stable, which contributed to the “release” of the Russian economy from world oil markets.
“24 billion we have export revenue – is simply incredible. No one would ever a few years ago, never bought it. We have spent – and not without benefit – a lot of money that trillions are measured at import. What is the result. For example, in Russia never was a helicopter motors, now there is. We didn’t have engines for marine vessels, we now have,” boasted Putin economic success at last year’s press conference. His words led the TV channel “Star”.
meanwhile, the fear of new sanctions was more effective than the sanctions themselves. It is so great that in the Crimea and six years after his rejection from the Ukraine refuse to work even the giants of Russian business, which is closely associated with the state (for example, Sberbank).
From sanctions suffer not only the industry and the financial sector, but also ordinary citizens. Bet the Russian leadership on import substitution did not materialize, and due to it in medicine is the lack of drugs claims the lives of sick children.
But Moscow believes that the question of supplies of Crimea is closed once and for all. “The issue is closed forever; there was a referendum,” – said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in 2016. Since then, the Russian position has not changed.
