Russia to the West: You want to condemn the militancy, start with yourself.
Russia’s envoy to the United Nations told a Security Council meeting that “if Western countries are to condemn militancy, they must do so.”
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, has sharply criticized Western military adventures in a statement at a Security Council meeting.
According to the Itar-Tass news agency, Nebenzia told the meeting on Thursday night that the West should first condemn its military adventures and compensate those who have been harmed by the actions of those countries.
“I have a recommendation for the Western world,” said Russia’s envoy to the United Nations. If you want to condemn militancy, start with yourself. “Become a role model by condemning your own military adventures, economic constraints, your deadly colonial and neo-colonial wars, genocides and theft from indigenous peoples.”
“Pay compensation to the governments and nations that have been harmed by your actions,” he added. “Such a move would bring us closer to a just world order in which there is no place for self-proclaimed exceptionalism.”
Russia’s envoy to the United Nations also noted that Moscow has seen a great deal of hypocrisy from the West in recent months. He noted that during the Ukraine conflict, Western countries “suddenly remembered that there was such a thing as international law.”
He added: “When NATO invaded Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, international law seemed to be just an annoying obstacle. “Western countries, in line with their futile efforts to justify militancy against independent nations, have been forced to coin poisonous concepts such as ‘humanitarian intervention’, ‘the war on terror’ and ‘pre-emptive strikes’.”
Vasily Nebenzia went on to criticize that military officers from Britain, the United States and other Western countries had never been tried for war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
