At the end of December, “Crimean media” actively began working on the “Guterres case” after the quite predictable statement by the UN Secretary-General that the population of Crimea and Donbas does not have the right to self-determination to the detriment of Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
It is noteworthy that António Guterres spoke on this topic in response to a provocative question from a Russian “journalist” about the status of Greenland, and the question itself was clearly based on an interview given by Sergei Lavrov to Turkish media just the day before.
There, the criminal minister spoke at length about the “treacherous French” who allegedly tried to send warships to the “Russian” Arctic. And “in this connection,” Lavrov commented on the statements of the UN Secretary-General’s spokesman, Frenchman Stéphane Dujarric, that the fate of Greenland should be decided on the basis of international law, including respect for the sovereignty of Denmark and the right to self-determination of the people of Greenland.
As Lavrov “frankly” told the Turkish media, after these words, the Russian Foreign Ministry allegedly sent a request to “Guterres and his team,” asking whether the UN recognizes the right to self-determination “for the population of Donbas, Novorossiya, and, of course, Crimea.”
In principle, it is completely unclear what other answer, besides Guterres’ words, “Lavrov and his team” expected from the UN, and therefore only one of two things remains – either the leadership of the Russian Foreign Ministry is completely detached from reality, or the current words of the UN Secretary-General were somehow necessary for them, and urgently so, which is why the “journalist” was used. The second option is confirmed by the hysteria described in the “Crimean press,” where the self-proclaimed “analysts” are now completely unrestrained in their “exposure of the UN,” something that had not been observed to such an extent before.
The speechwriters of the fake “speaker” Vladimir Konstantinov even wrote a statement of frankly Nazi intensity, in which, in addition to insults directed at “UN parasites” and the alleged “false opinion” of the Secretary-General, the existence of Greenlanders is denied (most of whom are actually Inuit, the local indigenous people), and the American people are called “British riffraff, diluted with immigrants from various European back alleys.”
The Secretary-General of the organization is now placed by “Crimean experts” on a par with the “main slanderers and Russophobes” of the last five hundred years, they speak of a “verdict” and “contempt” towards the UN itself, as an “atavism” and a “showcase with loose biomass,” from which, allegedly, “the arrogance has been knocked out,” without hesitation, even publishing vulgar insults against Guterres himself.
Regarding the “verdicts,” let us recall that a number of Crimean activists were repressed by the aggressor in the last three years for publishing reports by the same UN Secretary-General on the situation in the occupied territories of Ukraine, but at that time the aggressor’s propaganda remained silent about this.
But now, in addition to the described insults, “Crimean media” have suddenly started writing about the fact that allegedly “we are feeding this organization at the expense of our taxpayers,” and that now “Russia’s contributions to the maintenance of the UN” will be “radically sequestered, if not stopped altogether.”
It should be noted that the amounts levied on the aggressor for the UN budget are actually small, since they are calculated for the world’s countries based on the size of their economies. Moreover, unlike civilized countries, Russia has never “burdened” itself with voluntary contributions to the organization’s key projects.
But now the UN itself is in a serious financial crisis, and it is against this backdrop that “Lavrov and his team” may well launch a propaganda operation in the style of “stop feeding the UN,” for which, in fact, they needed some kind of “pretext.”
