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The Russian Federation must be expelled from all international organizations, its veto power in the UN Security Council must be taken away and it must stop providing its platforms for promoting the war, which is exactly what Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov did during the OSCE meeting. Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (OPU), Mykhailo Podolyak, stated this on the FREEDOM TV channel.
“This is an absolutely useless speech by [Sergei Lavrov], which has no meaning. And this is the problem of international institutions, which for a long time were saturated with Russian personnel, Russian propaganda, and Russian money. In fact, what did the security organization, the OSCE, do? She said that she likes it when a country violates international law and demonstratively commits massacres,” he said.
The adviser to the head of the OPU noted that international institutions have not understood their role and place in the modern world, in particular against the backdrop of Russia’s large-scale war against Ukraine.
“This place should look like this. First of all, Russia must be expelled or its membership must be suspended and secondly, most importantly, Russia’s veto power in the UN Security Council must be taken away. Third, international institutions must stop providing their platforms for promoting war, which is what Lavrov himself is always directly doing,” he emphasizes.
In addition, international organizations must refuse “Russian donations,” Podolyak emphasized.
“For a long time, Russia increased financial investments into these organizations, because the aggressor country understood how it would use them in such situations. And now we have an important period of time when international institutions must either realize their functionality, how they should work, or come out and publicly say: “Look, we like that Ukrainians are being killed en masse. We believe that this is an aspect of modern European security!” That is, don’t be hypocritical and don’t say that we will discuss some kind of security architecture in the presence of a representative of the mass murderer’s side,” concluded Mykhailo Podolyak.
As previously reported, the 30th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council is taking place in the capital of North Macedonia, Skopje. The main topic is Russia’s war against Ukraine. But representatives of Ukraine and several other European states did not come to the annual OSCE meeting. The reason for the boycott was the permission of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to take part in the meeting.
