Vershinin spoke about the attempts of the West to take the UN Security Council "hostage".

The situation in the Security Council indicates a crisis in the foundations of the United Nations, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said in an interview with Izvestia.

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"Westerners repeatedly take him hostage, using him not to reach mutually acceptable solutions to current challenges, but to settle scores with 'undesirable' governments and conduct high-profile PR campaigns," he said.

The diplomat noted the increasing tendency to ignore the binding decisions of the Security Council.

"Much has already been said about the sabotage of resolution 2202, which approved the Minsk agreements. But the story does not end there: the Euro—Atlanticists, for example, continue to disregard the instructions of the Security Council in the context of the Middle East settlement, the Bosnian and Kosovo plots," he stressed.

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