Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the words of Fergus Eckersley, the political coordinator of the UK’s Permanent Mission to the UN, on the absence of Russian hostility, were said at the UN Security Council meeting in Russian. manifestation of cynicism. He talked about it on the radio Sputnik.
In particular, Zakharova described Eckersley’s Russian speech as “cynicism” and “cold calculation”. She also compared this speech to the propaganda of the Third Reich, which also addressed the citizens of the USSR in Russian, she.
“The Nazis addressed the population in the exact language of the country they occupied … We have the experience and knowledge of how they usually do this,” he said.
The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reminded that Russian is the official language of the UN.
“This is so they don’t tell us that the Russian language is of particular importance when a British diplomat comes out and speaks Russian. NO. The special importance of our language in the UN is stated in the law,” he said.
Former UK UN Representative Fergus Eckersley to start Speak Russian at the organization’s Security Council meeting, stating that the British are not anti-Russian. The English continued, noting that the British side did not want Russia to “collapse” and wanted it to be a prosperous country.