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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday accused Russia of trying to discredit Ukraine at the 26th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow, saying Russian media tried to create a scandal when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy missed a panel.
KIEV (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – November 03, 2021) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday accused Russia of trying to discredit Ukraine at the 26th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow, claiming that Russian media tried to create a scandal when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy missed a panel.
The Ukrainian leader was absent during Tuesday’s COP26 session when he was invited to speak by the moderator of the event, the US President’s Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry. Kuleba explained in a video address on Facebook that Zelenskyy’s tight schedule, due to a large number of meetings on the sidelines of COP26, did not allow the Ukrainian delegation to get to the room in time. held the session. By the time Zelenskyy was invited to deliver a speech, he was in a meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, the diplomat said.
The Ukrainian minister believes that the Russian media have started to spread information “that there seemed to be a scandal with the absence of the Ukrainian president at the meeting when John Kerry, who was moderating it, announced the speech of Ukraine “.
“Ukraine had warned the organizers that we did not arrive on time, and it was not the fault of Ukraine but of the organizers of this event. Let us not be fooled by all these Russian reproaches and all their provocations … that they actively disseminate in the information space to discredit Ukraine, â€Kuleba added.
The diplomat stressed that it was nothing major, but “a moment of normal organization”.
The United Nations climate conference began on October 31 and is scheduled to last until November 12.
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