EU, US, British envoys boycott Lavrov speech at UN rights forum
Reuters
Mac 1, 2022 11:40 MYT
Mac 1, 2022 11:40 MYT
Ambassadors and diplomats walk out in protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov addresses the Conference on Disarmament with a pre-recorded video message in Geneva, Switzerland, March 1, 2022. REUTERS
GENEVA: Dozens of diplomats from the European Union (EU), United States and Britain walked out of a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the top U.N. human rights forum on Tuesday, according to a Reuters witness.
Lavrov was addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council remotely, having cancelled his attendance earlier due to what the Russian mission in Geneva said on Monday were EU states blocking his flight path.