Russia has failed to prevent a meeting on the initiative of the United States, Monday, January 31. Moscow accuses Washington and his allies to attack him “without evidence” and want to create “hysteria”.
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The tense atmosphere of the Security Council and the one that reigned in the United Nations corridors (UN), Monday, January 31, were the perfect reflection of the Ukrainian file: a diplomacy in lack of momentum, Washington requesting accounts , Moscow who does not answer, and in the middle, Ukraine – at the same time calling to de-escalation and frustrated by the inaction of the international community.
The United States had asked to register the meeting at the Council’s agenda Monday. The international community appreciated the motion – see crises being discussed within the larger of multilateralism is still well seen by diplomats, who feared that the habits installed by the Trump administration did not lose. Even if everyone was fooled: diplomatic exchanges between Washington and Moscow have started for several weeks, long before the debate is carried out for the day in New York.
Russia has protested, and tried to prevent this meeting from being held: at the beginning of the session, she asked for a vote for the file to be not registered on the agenda of the Council. But with the sole support of China, and the abstention of India, Kenya and Gabon, it lacked two other votes to access its query – the veto not usable in this situation.
In session, the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vassili Nebenzia, immediately accused the United States of wanting to create “hysteria”, and the West to accuse his country “without evidence”. He asked on what basis Washington and his allies could say that more than 100,000 Russian soldiers had been deployed around Ukraine – reminding that before the invasion of Iraq, in 2003, the White House had assured Evidence of weapons of mass destruction in this country, never found.
Ukrainian frustrations
His American counterpart, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, then brought back and accused Moscow to deploy early February, “evidence” in support, more than 30,000 additional soldiers in Belarus, whose diet is very close to the Kremlin.
then Vassili Nebenzia left the council room – pretending an urgent appointment who did not stop him from stopping talking to the press for fifteen minutes – before his Ukrainian counterpart, Sergiy Kyslysya, did not Speak. “We regularly conduct joint exercises with Belarus and some are planned in early February,” he justified. “He did not answer any of the questions asked by the members of the Council,” had to retort Linda Thomas-Greenfield later to journalists.
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