MOSCOW, June 8. /TASS/. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is openly playing into the hands of the West, thereby failing to meet impartiality criteria requited for his position," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
He recalled that under the UN Charter, the secretary general is required to be unbiased and ready to "implement the tasks set forth in the organization’s Charter in their entirety and in their interrelationship, rather than selectively."
"Unfortunately, the current Secretary-General, whom I have known very well for a long time and who has worked extensively within the UN system, does not meet these requirements. He openly plays into the hands of the West, including on the issue of Ukraine," he told a news conference after his talks with top Bangladeshi diplomat Khalilur Rahman.
Policy of double standards
The top Russian diplomat noted that all recent public statements by the UN chief and his staff "have consistently boiled down to the need to uphold the UN Charter and Ukraine’s territorial integrity." "In response to my direct questions to him regarding what to do about other principles of the UN Charter besides territorial integrity, in particular, the principle of self-determination of peoples, he stated that this is an irrelevant matter."
