Botsan-Kharchenko: West hysterically blocked UNSC session on aggression on Yugoslavia

BELGRADE - Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko said on Tuesday Western states had blocked the holding of a UN Security Council session requested by Russia to mark 25 years since the start of the 1999 NATO aggression on the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) because they were "afraid of the truth."

"The West hysterically blocked the holding of a UNSC session to mark 25 years since the start of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia. That says it all by itself and explains more than dozens of speeches would. Just how they are afraid of the truth," Botsan-Kharchenko wrote in a post on the social media network X.

Following a vote in the UNSC, a debate on the 25th anniversary of the aggression was not put on the agenda of the top UN body on Monday.

Russia, China and Algeria voted in favour of a debate but twelve UNSC members - France, the UK, the US, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Switzerland - abstained, and there were no votes against.