Lavrov Says UN Chief under Western Pressure over Ukrainian Crisis

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres turned out to be under Western pressure over the situation in Ukraine as he was making statements not corresponding to his status and authority under the UN Charter.

“To our greatest regret, the UN secretary general, whom you represent, has been subject to pressure from the West and has recently made several statements about what is happening in eastern Ukraine that are not corresponding to his status and his authority under the UN charter,” Lavrov told UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen in Moscow.

On Tuesday, Guterres said that the Russian recognition of the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics were the violation of the Minsk Agreements and the “death blow” to the Minsk Agreements.

Source: Agencies