And last month he reduced an audience in Delhi to helpless laughter when he said Ukraine had launched the war against Russia.Īll without a trace of irony and a deadpan delivery that the late Barry Humphries would have been proud of. He insisted Russia would never invade Ukraine, then, once they had, insisted that they were not. He has lied with astonishing cynicism about his country’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. A bruising silverback of a diplomat in contrast to some of the more softly spoken of his counterparts. Sergei Lavrov used to be respected, albeit grudgingly, in the world's chancelleries. The UN security council should be dissolved rather than host the obscene spectacle of its aggressor nation presiding over a body whose entire raison d'etre is to preserve global peace and security. Ukraine says that is a sick April Fools joke. Russia had it 15 months ago, when the news broke it had invaded Ukraine, during a live council session its diplomats were chairing. There are fifteen members of the UN security council and each member has the rotating presidency for a month. Sudan may be descending into a war that could "engulf the whole region" in the words of the UN secretary general and Ukraine's war is wrecking the world economy.īut instead the Russian foreign minister chose the moment to deliver a long rant about multilateralism. Sergei Lavrov is not one to to be distracted. By Dominic Waghorn, international affairs editor
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