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British Foreign Secretary David Lammy took aim at what he called Russian 'imperialism' - and referred to his own 'ancestors in chains' - during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York on Tuesday.
"I say to the Russian representative on his phone as I speak that I stand here also as a Black man whose ancestors were taken in chains from Africa at the barrel of a gun to be enslaved. Whose ancestors rose up and fought in a great rebellion of the enslaved. Imperialism. I know it when I see it, and I will call it out for what it is," he stated.
He also claimed that Russia 'claims to stand for the Global South' but was riding 'roughshod over international law'.
During the meeting Russia's Vassily Nebenzia said that his country was not fighting the Ukrainian people but more the "criminal regime that has seized power in Kiev and is leading its people to disaster", adding that the Ukrainian people 'do not wish to go to war' and were 'trying their best to flee'.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky used the meeting to claim the Russian had to be 'forced into peace' and is set to unveil his 'victory plan' to US President Joe Biden during this week's UN General Assembly in New York.
'I know imperialism when I see it!'- Britain's Lammy points finger at Russia, refers to 'ancestors in chains'
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy took aim at what he called Russian 'imperialism' - and referred to his own 'ancestors in chains' - during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York on Tuesday.
"I say to the Russian representative on his phone as I speak that I stand here also as a Black man whose ancestors were taken in chains from Africa at the barrel of a gun to be enslaved. Whose ancestors rose up and fought in a great rebellion of the enslaved. Imperialism. I know it when I see it, and I will call it out for what it is," he stated.
He also claimed that Russia 'claims to stand for the Global South' but was riding 'roughshod over international law'.
During the meeting Russia's Vassily Nebenzia said that his country was not fighting the Ukrainian people but more the "criminal regime that has seized power in Kiev and is leading its people to disaster", adding that the Ukrainian people 'do not wish to go to war' and were 'trying their best to flee'.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky used the meeting to claim the Russian had to be 'forced into peace' and is set to unveil his 'victory plan' to US President Joe Biden during this week's UN General Assembly in New York.
Mandatory credit: UNTV
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy took aim at what he called Russian 'imperialism' - and referred to his own 'ancestors in chains' - during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York on Tuesday.
"I say to the Russian representative on his phone as I speak that I stand here also as a Black man whose ancestors were taken in chains from Africa at the barrel of a gun to be enslaved. Whose ancestors rose up and fought in a great rebellion of the enslaved. Imperialism. I know it when I see it, and I will call it out for what it is," he stated.
He also claimed that Russia 'claims to stand for the Global South' but was riding 'roughshod over international law'.
During the meeting Russia's Vassily Nebenzia said that his country was not fighting the Ukrainian people but more the "criminal regime that has seized power in Kiev and is leading its people to disaster", adding that the Ukrainian people 'do not wish to go to war' and were 'trying their best to flee'.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky used the meeting to claim the Russian had to be 'forced into peace' and is set to unveil his 'victory plan' to US President Joe Biden during this week's UN General Assembly in New York.