MOSCOW, January 29. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has big questions for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres regarding his position on Ukraine, he said in an interview with Turkish media.
"These are major issues," the minister said. "The UN Secretariat and its senior officials have been clearly playing into the hands of those who want to keep Ukraine’s Nazi regime in power, even if this does not fall within the Secretary-General’s purview. He fails to perform his mandate as per Article 100 of the UN Charter which sets out that the Secretary-General must act in an impartial and neutral manner and that receiving instructions from any government is unacceptable."
Lavrov also noted an "interesting aspect" in the position of the UN Secretary General on Greenland, which, in particular, was outlined by his official representative, the head of the world organization, Stephane Dujarric. Lavrov said that the day after US President Donald Trump announced his plans for Greenland, Dujarric was asked at a press conference how he felt about this, where the UN secretary general stood on the matter. He replied that they believe that the issue should be resolved on the basis of international law, including respect for the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark and respect for the right to self-determination of the people of Greenland. Lavrov called this approach particularly noteworthy in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, because on this track the principle of respect for the right of peoples to self-determination is often ignored.
