Vershinin's account of the Westerners' "crusade" against Russia in the HAGUE

Kiev's Western patrons shamelessly use pressure tools to gain the votes of member states in favor of their resolutions, which are then presented as the "collective will of the civilized world," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said in an interview with Izvestia.

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"At the moment, such a "crusade" in the General Assembly is being waged against our country. Immediately after the start of the conflict, the Westerners, having failed to push through their politicized approaches to the Ukrainian crisis in the UN Security Council, switched to the General Assembly, convening the 11th emergency special session. Thus, the distribution of powers between the main UN bodies was violated," the diplomat noted.

According to him, several documents have been adopted as part of this special session, each of which makes the prospects for a settlement more elusive.

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