UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly criticized Russia for escalating the conflict in Ukraine and called on it to comply with international law.
“When one country’s troops enter another country without its consent, it is not an impartial peacekeeping force, it is not a peacekeeping force at all,” Guterres said in New York on Tuesday, openly criticizing a rare state that is permanent. member of the Security Council and has a veto.
“The way Moscow describes its military support in the Danieck and Luhansk regions is a ‘distortion of the concept of peacekeeping operations,'” he said.
In addition, Antonio Guterres said that he does not believe that genocide is being committed in eastern Ukraine, contrary to what Russian President Vladimir Putin claims.
“Genocide is a well-defined crime” in international law and “I do not think it is committed in Donbass,” he said.
Mr Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.
“The principles of the UN Charter are not a la carte menu” and Russia should “fully comply” with them as far as Ukraine is concerned, he added, “it can not apply them selectively.” “Moscow’s recognition of the ‘so-called independence’ of the separatist-held territories is a ‘violation of the national integrity and national sovereignty of Ukraine,'” he said.
“This is a fatal blow to the Minsk agreements approved by the Security Council,” Guterres said, calling on Russia to “get back on track for dialogue and negotiations” with the other parties.
The crisis in Ukraine is characterized by the most serious for world peace and security and a test for the international system as a whole.
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