Foreign Ministry: declaring UN Secretary General Guterres persona non grata will not help the cause of peace
Declaring UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres persona non grata by the Israeli authorities will not help the cause of peace. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced this at a briefing, a Lenta.ru correspondent reports.
“It is the sovereign right of a country to declare persona non grata. But this will not help the cause of peace. If anyone is to blame for the current situation and the UN’s inability to raise its voice, it is Washington,” the diplomat said.
Zakharova pointed out that it was the United States that blocked several UN Security Council projects aimed at resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and thereby “thwarted diplomatic efforts with its clumsy actions.”
Earlier, Zakharova said that the US role as a peacemaker had again pushed the Middle East to the cliff.
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