Russia assured yesterday Friday that it will responsibly exercise the presidency of the Security Council of the United Nations. Moscow assumes this responsibility today and for a month in the midst of its military intervention in Ukraine and totally confronted with the West, which yesterday it described as an "existential threat" in its new foreign policy strategy. The Kremlin thus responded to the criticism received in recent days.
For the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dimitro Kuleba, "it is a bad joke" with which "the world cannot be a safe place."
From the United States, the White House spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, called on Russia "to conduct itself in a professional manner." But she noted that she "will continue to use her seat on the council to spread disinformation" and justify her actions in Ukraine.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, said yesterday that Russia "will exercise all its rights, since it is a State responsible for that body and the UN." And Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, called calls to deprive Russia of that rotating presidency "absurd."
The Ukraine conflict is also at the center of the new foreign policy strategy adopted yesterday by Russia. In it, he designates the West as an "existential threat" to Moscow.
During a meeting of his National Security Council, President Vladimir Putin justified this change due to international "convulsions".
The new doctrine points out "the existential nature of the threats" created by unfriendly countries and designates the US as "the main instigator of the anti-Russian line", summed up Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
