Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya

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Updated: 14 Oct 2023, 01:59

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“Let me be clear: the responsibility for the looming war in the Middle East, to a large extent, lies on the United States,” he told Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations

UNITED NATIONS, October 14. /TASS/.
The Middle East is on the brink of a full-scale war, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya warned.

“The region is on the brink of a full scale war and an unprecedented
humanitarian catastrophe,” he told reporters following a closed-door UN
Security Council meeting on the current escalation of the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict.

“Let me be clear: the responsibility for the looming war in the Middle
East, to a large extent, lies on the United States,” he told reporters
following a closed-door UN Security Council meeting on the current
escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

According to Nebenzya, “it is Washington that recklessly and selfishly
blocked the work of the Middle East Quartet of international mediators
in an effort to monopolize the peace process and limit it to imposing an
economic peace with Israel on the Palestinians and other Arab countries
without solving the Palestinian question.” “We consistently warned
against this, saying it will backfire one day, and so it did,” the Russian
envoy stressed.

Nebenzya added that “for years, the US blocked any reaction, any signal
from the UN Security Council, <…> claiming that its quiet regional
diplomacy is more effective.”

“We shouldn’t ignore that the current flare-up of violence happens
against the background with real systematic violations of the decisions of
the UN Security Council and the General Assembly, including the illegal
expansion of settlements, which is regularly condemned by the vast
majority of UN member states,” he said.

Nebenzya added that Russia unequivocally condemned “extreme
brutality, killings and the horrifying scale of violence.” “Any killings and
violence against peaceful civilians, both Israeli and Palestinian citizens,
is inadmissible,” the Russian envoy stressed.

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