Analysis: Sessions held by Russia while the nation chairs the U.N. Security Council this month turned into a rare face-to-face confrontation between Moscow and some of its leading adversaries.
The session turned into a rare face-to-face confrontation between Russia and some of its leading adversaries.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on April 23 condemned a decision by the United States to deny entry visas to Russian journalists traveling to New York. “Russia is trying to portray itself as a defender of the U.N. Charter and multilateralism. Nothing can be further from the truth. It’s cynical,” said Olof Skoog, E.U. representative to the United Nations. “We all know that while Russia is destroying, we are building. While they violate, we protect.”, casting the government in Kyiv as a “Nazi” regime and of Western-backed “putschists.
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