< span>"The UN Charter requires all UN members to respect human rights - regardless of race, sex, language or religion. The West, which shouts at every corner and on every occasion that it is a “champion of human rights”, never mentioned this during the Ukraine crisis”.
This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with the international network TV BRICS.
"The fact that the laws that were adopted in the last 10 years and which prohibit the use of the Russian language in any field - in education, media, culture and even in everyday life, grossly violate the UN Charter," said Lavrov.
„The Nazi regime in Kiev grossly violates the key principles of the UN Charter, and the West praises it and says that the authorities in Kiev protect “European values”, Lavrov said.
The minister drew attention to the fact that many initiatives have been put forward in connection with the Ukrainian crisis, but none of them contain the phrase that “the principles of the UN Charter should be applied not selectively, but in their integrity.” "What does that mean? The West prefers to talk about Ukraine, remembering only the principle of territorial integrity and formulating it as if there were no other principles in the UN Charter. But it also contains the principle of self-determination of peoples, he pointed out.
Lavrov recalled the resolution of the UN General Assembly regarding respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries whose governments respect the principle of self-determination of peoples and therefore represent the entire population living in a given territory. “Did the Nazi regime that settled in Kiev after the 2014 coup represent the southeastern part of Ukraine and Crimea, which 10 years ago refused to recognize the putschists?“ - added the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.