UNITED NATIONS, September 20. /TASS/. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell suggests that Ukraine join the European Union in a fast-track manner, whereas Serbia and Turkey have been holding negotiations on joining it for decades, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine.
"Calls can be now heard from Brussels to expand the EU membership as soon as possible, including, in particular, the Balkan nations. However, the main pathos is neither about Serbia nor Turkey, who have been holding hopeless negations on admission for decades, but about Ukraine," he said.
"Claiming to be the ideologist of European integration, Borrell did not hesitate recently to announce that the Kiev regime should be allowed to join the EU as soon as possible. If it were not for the war, it would have taken years, but it could and must be done without any criteria. Serbia, Turkey and other will have to wait but we will allow the Nazis to join the European Union out of turn," Lavrov said.
Lavrov recalled that at the Summit for Democracy in 2023, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres declared, "Democracy flows from the United Nations Charter. Its opening invocation of ‘We the Peoples,’ reflects the fundamental source of legitimate authority: the consent of the governed."
"It is useful to correlate this argument to the ‘record book’ of the Kiev regime that unleashed a war against a huge part of its own people, against those millions of people who did not give consent to be governed by the Nazis and Russophobes, who had illegally seized power and buried the Minsk accords, approved by the Security Council, thereby undermining Ukraine’s territorial integrity," Lavrov said.