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Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Evstigneeva on Wednesday, December 15, spoke at the Safe Organization with a statement that the countries are conducting a coordinated information campaign against Russia. The broadcast was conducted on the Security Council’s YouTube page.
“As for the accusations against Russia voiced by a number of them, there is nothing new in these informational stuffing. – she emphasized.
We are talking about some Western countries. For example, the deputy representative of Great Britain, James Roscoe, as well as diplomats from France and Estonia, put forward the assumption that allegedly Russian mercenaries contribute to the conflict in the CAR, undermine the work of peacekeepers and benefit from their own interests.
According to Evstigneeva, the prosecuting countries are not flawless in terms of “human rights”, since a large number of civilians very often die from their military intervention.
In conclusion, she recalled that the problem of instability in the CAR is illegal armed groups, the republic itself has the right to choose with whom it will cooperate in order to deal with security problems.
In June, The New York Times reported that the UN had conducted an investigation into the “abuse of Russian mercenaries” in the CAR. According to the international organization, the Russians and government troops committed war crimes: they robbed citizens and their homes, seized schools, and killed believers in mosques where the rebels were hiding.
In turn, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian military could not and did not participate in the killings and robberies in the Central African country. The Kremlin called such accusations just another lie.