The veteran politician declared that the principle has repeatedly been flouted by western countries, citing the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the invasion of Iraq by a US-led coalition and NATO’s military operation in Libya. “The root of the problem lies in the incessant attempts to divide the world into us and...
Sergey Lavrov said criticism of Russia’s “special operation” based on the UN Charter and Ukraine’s territorial integrity, ignored the fact that the UN’s founding document also “declares the obligation to respect the principles of the equality and self-determination of peoples”, he said, arguing that this had after all been the...
