UN, 24 APR — RIA Novosti. the Position of Kiev, blocked in the UN General Assembly a draft resolution on combating coronavirus is blasphemy, said in comments published on the website of the permanent mission of Russia to the world organization.
Earlier, the Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said about the blocks in the UN Russian resolution calling for the weakening of the sanctions regime during the period of the pandemic. The Russian permanent mission previously noted that the draft document calls to abandon the use of unilateral economic sanctions against developing countries, was blocked by a group of Western countries and their supporters in the States.
As noted by the Russian permanent mission, Ukrainian diplomats “was not to their liking is a call to act in the spirit of good neighbourliness, which, they say, is irrelevant from the “aggressor state”, which the Ukrainian propaganda aggressively and in disregard of facts and common sense is trying to put Russia”.
“brave Ukrainian fighters with reality doesn’t bother blasphemous their positions,” — said at the permanent representation.
the authors of the statement stressed that Kiev’s position undermines one of the possible directions of international cooperation in the fight against COVID-19. From such interaction, according to diplomats who “would win a potential victim of the pandemic, especially in developing countries, vulnerable”.
“I would Like to remind you that the call for the lifting of coercive economic measures, limiting the possibility of pandemic, were directed specifically at developing countries, to which our Ukrainian colleagues, apparently, is not the case,” — said the Russian permanent mission.
the First zampolpreda of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky in his Twitter said that diplomats could not respond to another “victory” proclaimed by the colleagues from the Ukraine after they have violated the procedure of silence on the Russian draft resolution. “I can’t wait when our neighbors get back his mind and they will cease to look pathetic,” wrote the diplomat.
the world health organization on 11 March announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, there have been recorded more than 2.5 million cases of infection, over 175 thousand people died.
