Lavrov accused the UNESCO secretariat of playing along with Ukraine and the West

The UNESCO Secretariat serves the interests of those who want to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia and play along with Ukraine and its Western patrons. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the meeting of the Russian Commission for UNESCO on January 28.

"The UNESCO Secretariat <...> serves the interests of those who proclaimed their goal to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, to abolish everything Russian, starting from Russia's part in international processes and ending with culture, education, religious values," he said.

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