Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN and Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia read poems at a meeting of the Security Council
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Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations (UN) Serhiy Kyslitsa and Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Serhiy Vershinin read poems to each other at a meeting of the UN Security Council. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
During his speech, Kislitsa quoted the poems of the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko “Stalin's Heirs” in Russian, although he usually does not use it in communication with journalists. “Let them say to me: “Calm down …” – I won’t be able to be calm. // As long as Stalin's heirs are still alive on earth, // It will seem to me that Stalin is still in the mausoleum,” read the Ukrainian permanent representative.
In turn, the Deputy Foreign Minister noted that “when political messages are clothed in poetry”, then this is “good.” In response, he read the poems of the poet Nikolai Zabolotsky. “And if so, then what is beauty // And why do people deify it? // She is a vessel, in which there is emptiness // Or a fire flickering in a vessel?”, he recited.
Vershinin compared beauty to wisdom and added that wise decisions must be made, especially with regard to the settlement in eastern Ukraine based on the Minsk agreements.
Earlier, UN Secretary General António Guterres said he was encouraged by the ongoing diplomatic efforts on the situation around Ukraine. Guterres is convinced that there will be no war, as a military “conflict would be a disaster.”
