Following are remarks Friday of the overseas minister of Poland, Radek Sikorski, on the United Countries Safety Council.
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I’m amazed on the tone and the content material of the presentation through the Russian ambassador.
And I assumed I might be helpful through correcting the document. Ambassador Nebenzya has referred to as Kyiv a consumer of the West. In truth, Kyiv is combating to be unbiased of anyone.
He calls them a prison Kyiv regime. In truth, Ukraine has a democratically elected executive.
He calls them Nazis. Neatly, the president is Jewish, the protection minister is Muslim, and they’ve no political prisoners.
He mentioned that Ukraine was once wallowing in corruption. Neatly, Alexei Navalny documented how truthful and stuffed with probity his personal nation is.
He blamed the conflict on U.S. neo-colonialism. In truth, Russia was once looking to exterminate Ukraine within the nineteenth century, once more underneath Bolsheviks, and now it’s the 3rd try.
He mentioned we’re prisoners of Russophobia. “Phobia” way irrational worry. But, we’re being threatened virtually on a daily basis through the previous president of Russia and Putin’s propagandists with nuclear annihilation. I put it to you that it isn’t irrational — when Russia threatens us, we accept as true with them.
He mentioned that we’re denying Russia’s safety pursuits. No longer true. We handiest began rearming ourselves when Russia began invading her neighbors.
He even mentioned that Poland attacked Russia right through Global Struggle II. What’s he speaking about? It was once the Soviet Union that attacked Poland along with Nazi Germany at the seventeenth of September 1939. They even held a joint victory parade at the twenty seventh of September.
He says that Russia has all the time handiest crushed again aggression. Neatly, what had been then Russian troops doing on the gates of Warsaw in August 1920? They had been on a topographic tour? In reality that for each time Russia was once invaded, she has invaded ten instances.
He says that this is a perfidious proxy conflict through the West. My recommendation is – don’t fall into the Western entice. Withdraw your troops to world borders and steer clear of this Western plot.
He additionally says that there was once an unlawful coup in Kyiv in 2014. I used to be there. There was once no coup. President Yanukovych murdered 100 of his compatriots and was once got rid of from workplace through a democratically elected Ukrainian parliament, together with through his personal birthday party, the Birthday party of Areas.
And in spite of everything he’s pronouncing that we the West are by hook or by crook looking to convince that Russia can by no means be crushed. Neatly, Russia didn’t win the Crimean Struggle, it didn’t win the Russo-Eastern conflict, it didn’t win Global Struggle I, it didn’t win the struggle of Warsaw, it didn’t win in Afghanistan, and it didn’t win the Chilly Struggle.
However there’s excellent information. After every failure there have been reforms.
Such demagoguery is unworthy of a member on an enduring foundation of the Safety Council. However what the ambassador has accomplished is to remind us why we resisted Soviet domination and what Ukraine is resisting now.
They didn’t subjugate us then. They’ll fail to subjugate Ukraine and us now.
