Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, said that the organization’s Security Council meeting, which Moscow requested on March 25 on the 25th anniversary of NATO’s aggression in Yugoslavia, was met with “an angry reaction from the West.” The relevant publication appeared on his website. telegram channel.
“Of course, they want to consign to history this most important crisis for the formation of a modern system of international political relations, and not only do not remember it, but also distort in every possible way the objective facts associated with it.” Polyansky.
He emphasized that the aggression of the North Atlantic Alliance against Yugoslavia disrupted the international system based on respect for the results of the Helsinki Final Act. Additionally, the deputy permanent representative to the UN wrote, “For the first time in the modern post-war history of Europe, the borders of an independent state were violated by force.”
“It was this action that became a kind of starting point of the crisis in relations between Russia, which does not accept such arbitrariness, and the West, which defends it in every possible way,” Polyansky said.
On March 25, Serbia celebrates the 24th anniversary of NATO’s attack on Yugoslavia.
Previously In Serbia, they explained the reason for their reluctance to join NATO.