The Russian Embassy in Colombo has issued a statement criticising the double standards of international personalities and organizations with respect to human rights matters in Sri Lanka.
The Russian Embassy in Sri Lanka has taken note of the increased external pressures on Sri Lanka by numerous Western political figures, diplomats and foreign human rights organisations criticising, the statement said.
“In spite of the fact that the above-mentioned personalities and entities are well-known for their policy of double standards, the Embassy as the official representation of the Russian Federation would like once again to express its perplexity by the way those “ambassadors of justice” see the things,” the Russian Embassy said.
The Embassy was critical of these personalities and organizations, especially with regard to their restraint in addressing the conflict in Gaza.
“Why are they reticent about the Gaza situation? Why don’t they provide their assessments of the humanitarian damage NATO caused to Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions to which the Alliance aims to export its “freedom and democracy”? What does hinder them from looking into the matter of Russian-speaking minorities being oppressed in Baltic countries? Why do they finally omit and even indulge the atrocities by the Nazi regime of Zelenskyy in respect of his own people?” The Embassy questioned. (Newswire)
