Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said that the United States showed the height of hypocrisy by vetoing the Brazilian resolution in the context of the situation in the Gaza Strip.
“We have just witnessed yet another manifestation of the hypocrisy and double standards of our American colleagues. From the very beginning, while they were not opposed in principle to the idea of adopting a humanitarian resolution in the Security Council, they were not really interested in it and only hoped to twist the number of hands necessary for the draft to pass without their veto. Since this eventually failed, they had to appear before all of us, dropping their masks,” the diplomat said at the UN Security Council meeting.
Vasily Nebenzya quoted the head of the Looskheed Martin Corporation James Tacklet. The American businessman said that “it makes no sense to keep Israel from a military operation” because of the development of the US military-industrial complex (MIC).
“The comments are unnecessary. This is the essence of US policy from the Middle East to Ukraine or the Asia-Pacific region,” Nebenzya stated.
Earlier, the resolution proposed by Brazil was vetoed by representatives of the United States. The document implied the cancellation of the call to move civilians in the Gaza Strip to the south of the enclave, voted 12 members. Russia and Britain abstained.
In addition, amendments to the Brazilian document proposed by the Russian side were also blocked by representatives from the US. The draft envisaged an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and condemnation of rocket attacks on Palestinian territory.
Recall, earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin said that achieving peace in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is possible on condition of the creation of a sovereign state of Palestine. In turn, the head of the White House, Joe Biden, said that the solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict by creating two states was not considered.