ArmInfo.Below is an excerpt from a statement by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy at UNSC briefing on cooperation between the United Nations and the European Union.
"In recent years, the EU has become a symbol of blatant double standards, to which Mr. Borrell has contributed significantly. I can cite numerous examples. Say, his statements in February this year that banning Russian media is a "protection of freedom of speech". At the same time, our retaliatory measures in the European Union were strongly criticized. Take another example. It was also in February when you, Mr. Borrell, said that in order to stop Israel's war in Gaza, weapons supplies to that country must stop. That is a reasonable idea, and we do support it. But please note that in the Ukrainian context, Mr. Borrell insists on increasing military support for Ukraine, while recognizing that in its absence the conflict will end within a few weeks. In this context I cannot fail to note that EU takes money for weapons for Ukraine from the European Peace Fund. That's in best Orwell's traditions: "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is power". These are the principles by which today's European Union lives.
"This being said, the European Union spares no effort to position itself as a peacemaker and mediator, and is trying to "dress up in this toga" even in relation to Ukraine. But does the EU want the conflict in that country to end? Let us address this question to the source, that is, to Mr. Borrell himself. In June 2023, after admitting that the conflict in Ukraine could be over in a matter of weeks if the West stopped providing military support to Ukraine, he said that the question was not whether to end this war, but how to end it. In other words, the EU (as a party that is fighting, albeit indirectly, in Ukraine), is working not to resolve the conflict, but to inflict maximum damage on Russia through it, and ideally to achieve Russia's strategic defeat. The EU applies this anti-Russian "geopolitical optic" everywhere, not bothering that the price of hundreds of thousands of human lives is paid not only by Ukraine but other countries too. Same logic applies to Armenia, Kosovo, Moldova, and even Africa. That is why, Mr. President, Russia calls to use caution in matters of UN-EU interaction. The assistance that the EU offers is not free. It is invariably followed by political demands, the imposition of alien political and socio-economic scenarios. In the end, this always results in something either neo-colonial or anti-Russian, for the modern European Union knows no other ways to operate."