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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow does not want Ukraine to pose a threat to the security of the country and its people. There have been more since 2014, he said at a press conference after the debate at the UN Security Council in New York, broadcast on the Russia 24 television channel.
“We want to make sure that Ukraine does not pose a threat to our security, which increased with the 2014 coup. And people involved in Russian language, culture, religion, have no not been the victims of discrimination and the threat of extermination”, explained the Russian minister.
He also described as schizophrenic the statements heard in the West on possible negotiations between Moscow and Kiev after the start of the latter’s counter-offensive.
“Now this ridiculous theory has come up: let’s now give Ukraine (Western countries) a successful counter-offensive, and then ask Ukraine, (President Volodymyr) Zelenskyy, to start negotiations. But that’s a kind of schizophrenic logic,” said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Earlier, Sergei Lavrov said that the Western minority should behave decently and respect other members of the world community. Nobody gave the West the right to speak for all humanity, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry told a meeting of the UN Security Council on the protection of the principles of the Charter of the world organization. The Minister also drew attention to the fact that for a long time the West “has become uncomfortable negotiating in universal formats, such as the UN”.
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