Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the principle of respect for territorial integrity applies only to states whose governments represent the entire people living on their territory, and "the Kiev government cannot be included in this category. Interfax writes that.
"Regarding the campaign launched about the alleged violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, whose initiators show complete indifference and contempt for human rights trampling, I would like to draw attention to the 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the UN Charter," Lavrov said speaking via video conference at the UN Human Rights Council.
Lavrov called the Kiev government "neo-Nazi.
According to him, the document stipulates that the principle of respect for territorial integrity applies to "states that respect in their actions the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples and therefore have governments that represent, without distinction as to race, religion or color, all people living on a given territory. The neo-Nazi government in Kiev clearly was not and is not a neo-Nazi government with respect to the peoples of Ukraine," he said.
At the same time, Lavrov cynically called human rights a "universal constant."
"It cannot depend on the selfish ambitions of a select few who seek to rewrite the 1948 Universal Declaration, twist it to their liking and replace with their own "rules" the consensus then achieved, which is the basis of all our collective work. The role of the UN Human Rights Council is to ensure commitment to our common values, not the narrow ones, promote mutually respectful discussions without any politicization and double standards and not to allow the use of human rights issues for interference in domestic affairs," the head of the Foreign Ministry said.
According to him, such an approach is contrary to the ongoing Western policy of illegal unilateral sanctions, "the targeting of which no one is trying to hide.
"These illegal restrictions are no longer limited to financial and economic bans. They extend to the cultural, sports, tourism, educational, informational fields and, in general, to all contacts between people. The West has clearly lost control of itself in a desire to take out its anger on Russia and has gone to the destruction of all the institutions and rules that it itself created, including the inviolability of property," Lavrov said.
According to him, "the arrogant philosophy of the West that relies on a sense of superiority, exclusivity, and permissiveness must end.
