Lavrov lamented the UN’s burning opportunities in the Ukraine crisis
According to an IRNA report on Wednesday from the Sputnik network website; Speaking at a news conference with his Omani counterpart in Muscat, Saeed Badr al-Bouzidi, the Russian Foreign Minister added: Implementation of Security Council Resolution 2202, which ratified the implementation of the Minsk Agreement for Peace in Eastern Ukraine, has missed the opportunity for political reconciliation.
Russia’s top diplomat enters the third month of the Ukraine war; Calls on the United Nations to urge KIF officials to stop preventing civilians from leaving its military operations in Ukraine; He added: “Given the desire of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, we first advised him to ask the Kyiv authorities to refrain from preventing civilians from leaving the area of military operations, and now the UN representative is trying to He is here to help solve the problem I raised.
During a visit to Moscow on April 26 to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior Russian officials, Guterres said the Ukraine crisis was his main concern, with a pragmatic stance and intent to help solve humanitarian problems. In the first phase of the conflict, he traveled to Moscow.
He announced his readiness to cooperate with the Russian and Ukrainian armies and the Red Cross to evacuate civilians from the Azofestal steel plant in Mariupol, where a number of Ukrainian citizens have taken refuge.
Lavrov on the prospect of igniting the fires of war in Europe, insisting on Moscow’s unwillingness to engage in military conflict; He added: “If you are worried about a war in Europe, we do not want it at all, but I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the West always emphasizes the need to defeat Russia in this situation.
According to the “Tass” news agency; Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday denounced a proposal by EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell to seize Russian foreign exchange reserves and hand them over to Ukraine to help rebuild the country, adding: “This is a theft and they even They do not hide.
The European Union and its allies have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in Russian foreign exchange reserves in Russia’s central bank accounts. Russia announced last March that sanctions on its central bank had frozen about $ 3 trillion and foreign reserves and gold worth more than $ 600 billion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 21, 2022 (March 2, 1400) criticized the West’s indifference to Moscow’s security concerns, recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, and three days later on Thursday, February 24. March 1400 – Launches a military operation called “Special Military Operation” against Ukraine, bringing the tense Moscow-Kiev relations into a state of military confrontation.