the Russian Federation will not stop “exposing double standards and bias” in the work of the United Nations on Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO). This was stated by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov at the General Meeting of the UNESCO Commission on Affairs of UNESCO.
“In spite of everything, we will not stop exposing double standards and bias in the work of this organization. We will continue to insist on the need to strictly observe the principles and ideals of UNESCO as all member states, and, of course, a secretariat,” the minister said.
“This disease – the maintenance of the interests of only one group of countries, in this case Western – it is not unique only for UNESCO. Its metastases are visible in other international structures, including the UN Secretariat,” Lavrov said.
According to the Russian Minister, the UNESCO Secretariat serves the interests of those who want to inflict the “strategic defeat”.
“UNESCO Secretariat, led by Odra Azula – she is the general director, a citizen of France – in fact, serves the interests of those who proclaimed Russia a strategic defeat, cancel all Russian, starting from Russia’s participation in international processes and ending with culture , by education, religious values and playing along with the Kyiv authorities and their Western patrons, the secretariat is silent, I would say shameful silence, with respect to the mass, systematic destruction of the monuments of the Russian historical and cultural heritage in Ukraine, in the Baltic states, including those under the protection as cultural values, ”Lavrov noted.
“We were convinced once again that there is no need to nourish any illusions regarding the current situation in UNESCO, the illusions regarding the political course of its general director and its closest employees,” he added.