Ukraine’s Position, blocked in the UN General Assembly a draft resolution on combating coronavirus, co-sponsored by more than 30 States, including Russia, is blasphemous. This is stated in comments published on the website of the permanent mission of the Russian Federation at the world organization.
This document urged to abandon the use of unilateral economic sanctions against developing countries. It talked about the importance of universal health coverage, increasing production of medicines and their availability, indicating the need of support for countries in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. The resolution also condemned manifestations of racism and xenophobia in the context of the fight against infection.
According to Russian diplomats, Kiev 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 them blasphemous positions,” – said in a statement.
At the permanent representation emphasize that Ukraine’s position undermines one of the possible directions of international cooperation in the fight against coronaviruses. “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, no case,” – said the Russian permanent mission.
Note that according to the latest who data, there have been recorded more than 2.5 million cases of infection with coronavirus. The victims were 175 thousand people.
