Russia used its veto in the UN Security Council
The draft resolution implied the perception of climate change as an international security issue. The draft was proposed by Ireland and Niger. Russia vetoed it, which prevented the UN Security Council from approving the document. Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, explained that taking such a decision would actually have caused “the deepest division”.
“In fact, it would lead to the deepest rift, a setback in the fight against climate change”, – the politician said.
US Permanent Representative to the UN Security Council Linda Thomas-Greenfield accused the Russian side of failing the global community.
“Only the UN Security Council can ensure that the security impact of climate change is integrated into key work on conflict prevention and mitigation, peacekeeping efforts and humanitarian assistance. Russia has failed the world by exercising its veto power against a resolution backed by a majority of UN members”, – the US representative wrote on Twitter.
Attempts by Western politicians to impose global trends on Russia are a long-standing procedure that has never succeeded. Moscow has repeatedly provoked harsh reactions from the U.S. and Europe over its rejection of UN projects. Aleksandr Sherin, a member of the LDPR’s supreme council, spoke about why the “trends” of world politics are unacceptable to Russia.
“If Russia always and in everything followed global ‘trends’, perhaps our state in its current borders would simply not exist. I recall that there have been numerous situations in the UN Security Council when Russia or China, despite the demands of the United States and other Western countries, did not support some resolutions, vetoing them”, – Sherin said.
The politician recalls that several recent armed conflicts in the world started with similar veiled projects in which the US and the EU meddled in the internal affairs of sovereign states.
“Make no mistake: under plausible pretexts, allegedly for humanitarian reasons, the US is trying to push through favourable decisions in the UN Security Council. The representatives of the West will never say: let us impose economic sanctions on some state, as it is competing with us. They will come up with completely different motives and reasons, and then – we see the bombing of Yugoslavia, we remember what happened in Iraq or Libya… And everything started with allegedly good intentions: let us protect, let us be concerned and so on”, – the expert sums up.
As a reminder, the Pentagon earlier said that there were no disciplinary sanctions against US servicemen who had carried out a mistaken airstrike on civilians in Kabul.