UN Security Council chief puts brakes on Russian nagging with one sentence
At the UN Security Council meeting in New York on Wednesday, there were complaints from the Russian UN ambassador Vasili Nebensja right at the beginning. He disliked the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj was allowed to speak first after UN Secretary General Guterres — incidentally, just like last year. In his opinion, this would turn the session into a “one-man stand-up show” — an allusion to Selenskyj’s former career as a comedian. And also cast a blight on the image of the currently acting UN chief …
But Edi Rama — as Albanian prime minister currently chairing the UN Security Council — was not irritated by this.
With calm and firmness, he still dealt a side blow to Russia: “I want to assure my Russian colleagues here and everyone else that this is not a special operation of the Albanian presidency, but a continuation of a long-standing and established practice that…
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