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UN is not neutral party in situation around Ukraine - Russia’s deputy UN envoy

According to Dmitry Polyansky, "people with Western passports and even Anglo-Saxon ones are dominating in the UN"

MOSCOW, April 18./TASS/. The United Nations is not a neutral party in the situation around Ukraine, it has certain sympathies, First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky told the Solovyov Live television channel on Monday.

"They have certain sympathies," he said. "It was really very obvious in the situation with Ukraine. We spoke about this openly, also to the secretary-general," Polyansky said.

According to him, "people with Western passports and even Anglo-Saxon ones are dominating in the UN". "Probably, this also affects the objectivity of the assessments that the UN often makes in this or that situation," he stressed.