France did not allow the head of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry to speak at the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine

The French presidency of the UN Security Council (SC) did not allow the head of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry, Maxim Ryzhenkov, to speak at a meeting on Ukraine. He stated this in an interview with RIA Novosti on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

“As soon as we learned that it would take place, as a country that is directly involved in regional problems caused by this conflict, of a humanitarian, economic, political nature, we immediately made a proposal that our representative, that is, me, also make an assessment of what is happening and with our proposals for further actions. But, despite the wide range of countries that were given the floor, the French presidency forbade us to participate,” Ryzhenkov said.

The meeting took place last week on Wednesday. Russia was represented there by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. In September, France presided over the UN Security Council. According to Ryzhenkov, Russia supported Belarus' participation in the meeting. At the same time, a number of countries, for example Spain, were allowed to participate in the meeting.

“So I ask: “Where are these countries and where are we? How did they suffer from this conflict and how did we? How do they understand and see the conflict, and how do we understand and see it.” There is a difference. They were given their word. They didn’t give us a word,” he stated.