Watch: Russia Accuses Ian Borg Of ‘Blindly Following Lead Of Western Russophobes’
Russia has come out strongly against Malta’s Foreign Minister Ian Borg, the current chairperson of the OSCE, accusing him of following a “Russophobia campaign”.
Vasily Nebenzya, the official representative of Russia in the United Nations Security Council, spoke out after Borg pledged that Malta would keep Russia’s “illegal war of aggression” against Ukraine at the top of the OSCE agenda.
“We are disappointed that, rather than implementing the direct mandate given to him by the 57 member states of the organisation, Mr Borg is as of today busy working out the political order of the West to denigrate Russia in context of the situation in Ukraine.”
Nebenzya accused Borg of repeatedly violating the OSCE’s rules since taking over the chairmanship of the international security body at the start of the year.
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“During the presentation of the priorities of the Maltese chairmanship on January 25th, you outlined ‘keeping Russia’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine at the top of the OSCE agenda’. You have promised to keep demanding the complete and immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from all of Ukraine, and you have made anti-Russian statements during your February visit to Ukraine.”
“Your bias and one-sided accusations against an OSCE state run counter to the mandate of your chairmanship, which states that the functions include ensuring one’s actions don’t conflict with the actions agreed upon by the participating states, and ensuring a full range of opinion of PS is taken into account”.
“Under what circumstances did the work of 57 OSCE states enable you to circulate anti-Russia slogans?”
Nebenzya went on to warn that some members of a special OSCE monitoring mission to Ukraine were involved in “reviewing and transmitting intelligence data to Kyiv”, and said it is “hard to believe that the leadership of the mission didn’t know about this”.
He also criticised Borg for not speaking out about Russophiles were persecuted by Kyiv in the wake of the 2014 Maidan Revolution and for not condemning “terrorist” actions by Kyiv in the ongoing conflict, including a recent attack against a Donetsk market, which killed 27 civilians.
“We are forced to admit that the Maltese chairmanship is blindly following in the footsteps of its predecessors and they are following the lead of the well-known Russophobes in the Western camp,” he said.
Nebenzya also questioned whether Borg is aware of a recent judgement by the International Court of Justice, which rejected the bulk of Ukraine’s terrorism accusations against Russia.
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