
The Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin and other members of the delegation of Russia left the hall during the speech of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the Summit on the goals of sustainable development as part of the Session of the UN General Assembly, TASS reports . Only one Russian diplomat remained in the hall.
“We left the hall in protest against frankly politicized and aggressive speech, which completely did not correspond to the stated topic of the summit,” said a high -ranking Russian diplomat. Answering the question of why one of the members of the delegation still remained, the agency’s interlocutor emphasized that "the Russian side has the habit of listening to its opponents and not leaving their performances completely without attention."
Initially, Poroshenko was supposed to perform at the fourteenth summit, but OP transferred his speech, speaking the last of the heads of state. After that, the speeches of foreign ministers began, which were opened by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov. In the UN Secretariat, he was offered to transfer the performance at a later time, but Lavrov refused, "not wanting to knock down his further schedule." During the performance, Poroshenko Lavrov was in the waiting room and did not participate in the Russian demarche.
Poroshenko said that a universal world is needed to achieve sustainable development goals, the press service of the Ukrainian president reports . "The bitter experience of Ukraine shows that peace and freedom are the main prerequisites for the achievement of the CUR. Sustainable development cannot be achieved where the explosions are heard and peaceful people die, where aggressive ideologies reign, justifying the suppression of one people to others, where key rights and freedoms of human freedoms are violated
"External aggression led to the emergence of a new form of poverty - sudden or unexpected poverty, which affects the life of about 1.5 million internally displaced persons in Ukraine. Every day of the war in the Ukrainian Donbass costs us about $ 5 million, which we could invest in the process of sustainable development. And the crisis of internally displaced persons, the number of which is 1.5 million, is the largest problem not only of Ukraine, but also the entire region," Poroshenko said in Poroshenko in the entire region. your speech.
Poroshenko said that as a result of Russian aggression, Ukraine lost 1/5 of the economic potential, threats of epidemics and technological disasters sharply increased.
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin will perform at the Session of the UN General Assembly.