Threats to international peace and security - Security Council, 10158th meeting

🇷🇺 Russian Federation, 🇩🇰 Denmark

1. 🇷🇺 Russian FederationFirst replyin response to Denmark▶ 1:38:29 · 3 min

   Mr. President, I am very pleased at the knowledge of the Ukrainian uh permanent representative about Russian history, but with your permission, I will not enter into dialogue with him because this is a pointless and uh there's uh useless initiative. I would like to talk about something else. Frankly speaking, it is uh somewhat awkward and I'm a little bit ashamed for certain members, colleagues of the Security Council. We knew that we would hear what we would hear from European members of the Security Council, something similar, but uh today their cynicism has reached staggeringly high levels, not a single one of them. deigned to even mention the dead children in Starabelsk. The representative of Denmark stated that uh that apparently that there is no access to them. Uh do you need access to rubble? Or perhaps you will allege that Russia itself did that, or these are computer-based graphics. But even the headquarters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have confirmed that they struck Starovorsk, Starobilsk. This is not even hypocrisy, not even double standards. This is a blatant mockery of child victims. We stated In the our uh the we we said in the state in our statement that uh there are victims uh for you who warrant uh grief and those who do not warrant it. Hearing you, I'm talking about uh those present to the members of the European Union, those who are absent, is a mockery, a defilation of the feelings of those who suffered, irrespective on which side. How did we reach this point? European representatives. Do not view children, the young students of Starabilsk, the residents of Donbass and the people in Russia as people. This does not dehumanize them. This humanizes dehumanizes you, those of you who are seated here making such statements. Is are you really not ashamed of making such statements, saying what we hear today? This is a form of the dance on the bones of those who have perished. This is disgusting to me. I would have genuinely been sorry for you had it not been for your vile cynicism and m mockery of the memory of the dead. Thank you.

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2. 🇩🇰 DenmarkFirst replyin response to Russian Federation▶ 1:41:33 · 1 min

   Unlike what was predicted by the representative of the Russian Federation before we all spoke today, where we were lectured about the kind of double standards we would um show this afternoon, I would just repeat what I said uh in my statement. Throughout this war, Denmark has consistently deplored attacks on civilians and demanded full respect of international humanitarian law without exceptions. There must be full accountability and justice for all crimes committed in a census war of choice launched by Russia. This, of course, includes any kind of killing or maiming of children, which we have repeatedly said in this chamber. So, no, we do not feel shame. And actually, yes, we would like to have access, because this is exactly what we demand in any situation in this chamber. We would like to have independent verification so we know what we are talking about. It has not been possible in this hour. So thank you very much. Yeah. There are no more names inscribed on the list of speakers. The meeting is adjourned.

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