Lithuanian foreign minister on handshake between Russian foreign minister and UN Secretary-General: UNbelievable

António Guterres. Photo: Getty Images

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has criticised UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ shaking hands with Russian Sergei Lavrov.

Source: Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Twitter (X), European Pravda reports

Details: On his Twitter account, Landsbergis posted a screenshot of the meeting between Guterres and Lavrov with the caption: “UNbelievable” (a pun on the UN acronym).

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UNbelievable pic.twitter.com/OJ9kOQ1iQX

— Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 (@GLandsbergis) January 24, 2024

The Russian foreign minister arrived in New York earlier this week to attend UN Security Council meetings on Ukraine and the Middle East.

Lavrov’s speech on Monday, 22 January, featured a traditional set of sweeping propaganda messages about Ukraine and the West’s unpreparedness for negotiations, criticism of the “peace formula” and the like.

Background:

• Lavrov and the rest of the Russian leadership need a special permit to travel to the United States, as Western countries have closed their airspace to Russian aircraft.
• The UK reportedly provided a UN panel of experts with satellite images that may prove that North Korea supplied Russia with weapons in order to initiate an official investigation into the matter.

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