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13:18 31.10.2024 •
Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing.
Photo: The Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations
Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on Ukraine:
Madam President,
When we learned about the request for today's UNSC briefing, we were, frankly speaking, taken aback by the cynicism and brazenness of our Western colleagues and their egregious double standards. We understand perfectly well that the situation on the frontline is catastrophic for the Zelensky regime, especially after his inglorious Kursk adventure, which triggered the collapse of the Ukrainian armed forces’ positions in Donbass. And we also understand that due to this fact, Zelensky’s Western patrons are now faced with the task to obscure these unfavorable developments at any cost, since they could affect the opinion of voters in their countries. They have long been providing evidence in the vein of notorious “highly likely”, but, nonetheless, we did believe that even for them there exist some limits when it comes to disseminating blatant disinformation. But, as turned out, they know no limits; and Washington, London and the like have hit a new low today.
Once we heard claims here in this chamber that we dismantle washing machines and other household appliances to get some microchips, because we had missiles only “for one or two days.” Then they tried to make the whole world believe that we were raping babies with spoons and capturing people in the streets because no one wanted to go to war. Bucha, Kramatorsk, the Mariupol Drama Theater, the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa – all were barefaced lies to smear the Russian Armed Forces. And these examples will be inscribed in gold-lettering in textbooks on disinformation and propaganda, just as they have already become generic designations to dub clumsy and unconvincing provocations of the West, carried out in an attempt to cover up the crimes of their accomplices in Kiev.
I want to thank Ambassador Woodward for her care about the Russian budget, it is moving indeed. She also used the expression “impoverished Russia”. I would like to invite the Permanent Representative of the UK to Russia so that she could find the evidence of what she has just said. However, I am afraid that she’ll be disappointed by what she will see, since her characteristics are divorced from reality.
A series of similar allegations about the transfer of DPRK soldiers to the Ukrainian front should not surprise anyone. These cases have only one thing in common: these are mere assertions; and in the absence of any convincing evidence, they are aimed only at shifting the focus away from the real problems that pose a threat to international peace and security.
Today, we are getting increasingly convinced of it, as we are listening to the lamentations of the US and its satellites. Today’s show is being performed to achieve one goal only – to justify “post factum” their own decision to send NATO troops to shore up the regime of the expired Kiev dictator.
Concealing the presence of NATO soldiers and NATO specialists on the territory controlled by the Kiev regime is simply no longer possible, no matter how disguised they may be, and no matter what “legends” the regime may make up to hide this fact. Every day, foreigners are being killed by the dozens and hundreds, they are taken prisoner, appearing on videos among the Ukrainian soldiers. You can see a growing number of obituaries of NATO top-brass or military specialists who allegedly tragically died while walking in the mountains or died suddenly of a heart attack, whereas they were actually eliminated during the targeted attacks on command posts, training bases and military factories on Ukrainian territory. We also note that the hysteria surrounding the North Korean issue miraculously “coincided” with Mr. Zelensky’s signing a decree, according to which foreign citizens and stateless persons are allowed to serve in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in commanding positions.
I’m not going even to talk here about the incessant pumping of the Kiev regime with weapons and intelligence, without which Zelensky and his criminal clique simply cannot fight; we will talk about this in detail tomorrow. I would like to ask one very simple question – even if we imagine that everything that our Western colleagues claim about military cooperation between Russia and the DPRK were true, why are the United States and its allies trying to impose on the whole world the flawed logic that they have the right to help the Zelensky regime by harnessing NATO’s entire military and intelligence potential, whereas Russia's allies have no right to do similar things? Where, ladies and gentlemen, did you get this neo-colonial feeling of your own exceptionality and impunity and your ungrounded belief that others are prohibited to do what you do?
We know your wicked narrative, which has been compromised many times already: you assert that Ukraine is the victim and Russia is the aggressor. It only works for those who have no idea at all about the background of the Ukrainian crisis or those who simply do not want to know anything about it. However, all of our reasonable, sensible colleagues understand perfectly well that our special military operation in Ukraine would never had happened but for the Kiev regime. It is the Kiev regime that unleashed war against civilians in Donbass after the Maidan anti-constitutional coup orchestrated by the same West, and then, facing decent response, sabotaged the implementation of the Minsk agreements approved by a UNSC resolution.
The whole world saw what kind of “victim” Ukraine really is in August, when Zelensky's neo-Nazi gangs started an unprovoked attack on a peaceful Russian border region. The Internet is flooded with evidence that these “bandits in uniform” were consciously killing Russian civilians, sparing neither women, nor children nor the elderly, and were deliberately targeting civilian cars and ambulances; you can also find evidence of their rapes, lootings, destructions of houses and livestock. By the way, the share of foreign mercenaries among them – primarily from Poland, the USA and the UK – is off the charts. Are those the people you are now trying to present as “victims of Russian aggression” who have the right to self-defense?
We discussed these crimes in detail and demonstrated evidence of them at the UNSC Arria Formula meeting on October 25, and your representatives came with their scripts prepared in advance, and they simply ignored the reality they were shown. This is the pinnacle of cynicism.
Colleagues,
The payback for Zelensky’s reckless and ill-fated Kursk adventure, which did not achieve any of its goals, has arrived. And it’s high time for you, gentlemen, to adapt your incantations and come up with something more sophisticated, because it all sounds too unconvincing. And you will not be able to divert attention from the true face, or rather the “beastly grin” of Zelensky's junta, now exposed to the whole world.
Madam President,
Regarding the issue of cooperation with Pyongyang, our position is absolutely honest and open. The DPRK is our good neighbor and close partner, and we are developing cooperation with this country in different fields. Our interaction is transparent. We pay visits, sign international treaties, conclude commercial contracts in various areas of bilateral interaction. And this is our sovereign right to do that.
I would like to stress that Russia's cooperation with the DPRK in both military and other areas is in line with international law and does not violate it. It is not aimed against third countries and poses no threat to other states of the region nor to the international community. We intend to develop this cooperation in the future, and no one can prohibit us from doing that.
As you know, on June 19, we signed the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and the DPRK. This was a natural consequence of our traditionally close relations of fraternal friendship and comprehensive cooperation, which have now reached an unprecedentedly high level; and this was driven by geopolitical transformations, which require a quality update of the legal foundations of our bilateral cooperation to make it mutually beneficial for both countries.
The Treaty is not a secret, the entire text has been published. It sets the basic principles for the further development of Russian-Korean ties aimed at deepening partnership and strategic cooperation on a wide range of priority areas as well as at establishing a fair international system. You can all see this for yourselves if you’ll read the Treaty. Therefore, there is absolutely no reasons, apart from the directives coming from our Western colleagues, to present our cooperation with the DPRK as a threat to anyone.
Madam President,
We see that today's Western performance in the Security Council is pursuing one more objective. I think it is no secret that the Western collaborators of the Zelensky regime have been trying for more than two years to cajole the leadership of the Republic of Korea into more active military-technical cooperation with the Kiev regime, and to induce them to supply Ukraine with highly demanded lethal weapons. Therefore, the anti-Pyongyang frenzied rhetoric is more than welcomed by Washington, London and Brussels, since the Kiev regime is about to exhaust its own reserves.
We hope that our South Korean colleagues will be wise enough not to fall for this trick. In any case, I can assure you that despite the current difficult period, we are trying to safeguard the prerequisites for resuming traditionally good-neighborly relations between Moscow and Seoul, and we do appreciate your restraint. We also feel optimistic when we see the public opinion polls in your country, which show that the overwhelming majority of the people in the Republic of Korea do not wish to become involved in the Ukrainian conflict.
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