Britain and the U.S. claimed Russia is using its position as current president of the U.N. Security Council to spread disinformation and propaganda, and blocked the U.N. webcast of a meeting Moscow called to defend its removal of children from Ukraine.
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Russia has scheduled several other council sessions on Ukraine, including one on April 24 that will be chaired by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov — who also plans to chair a second meeting on the Middle East the following day.In a Monday news conference announcing its plans for the month, Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said Lavrov was open to meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken while he is in the United States, if “the secretary would like to have a meeting.
The United States has “cynically accused us of the abduction of children,” Nebenzia said, charging without elaboration that the United States had used “racist methods” to remove over 2,500 children from Vietnam in 1975, allowed them to be adopted and subsequently refused to relinquish them “when their Vietnamese parents showed up.
To date, Lvova-Belova said, “about 1,300 were returned to their orphanages,” while 400 were sent to Russian orphanages because the areas they had come from were being “constantly shelled," and 358 were “placed with foster homes.”Charges that Russia was taking children from Ukraine to Russia — illegal under international law, regardless of motive — began shortly after the Russian invasion in February last year.
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