The UN Security Council roundly rejected on Friday a Russian request to have a consultant from a pro-Kremlin Russian breakaway group handle the physique.
A majority of the council’s 15 members — 8 states — voted in opposition to extending an invite to Daria Morazova, the Human Rights Ombudsman within the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). Just 4 nations voted in favor, together with Russia, whereas three others abstained.
The DPR is a pro-Russian separatist group that operates in elements of japanese Ukraine at the moment occupied by Moscow’s forces. Russia claimed to annex it together with the entire of Ukraine’s Donbass area, in September.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Washington’s UN envoy, mentioned the try to have Morazova handle the council “is a blatant and transparent attempt to have the council appear to legitimize the Russian Federation’s illegal attempted annexation, and to implicitly extend recognition to illegitimate authorities.”
“The United States will not support any attempt to legitimize the Russian Federation’s illegal attempted annexation of another UN member state’s territory and will therefore vote no and urge others to do the same,” she added.
Russia, nonetheless, mentioned having the “humanitarian activist” from talking is “a matter of freedom of speech.”
“Contrary to allegations of Western delegations, your support will in no way indicate the recognition of any international legal realities whatsoever,” Amb. Vassily Nebenzia mentioned.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
