“Thank you for the Russian “No”: the world’s only monument to Churkin was erected in Sarajevo
The Bosnian Serbs erected a monument to the former permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vitaly Churkin, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
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The opening ceremony took place in East Sarajevo, a district in Republika Srpska, part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Representatives of local authorities and the Russian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina took part in it.
The monument is located at the entrance to the Museum of Contemporary History of Republika Srpska.
The monument features a black marble slab with a portrait of Churkin and the inscription: “Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin (1952-2017). Thanks for the Russian no.”
Churkin died on February 20, 2017 at the age of 64 in New York.
He has served as the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the UN since 2006. During his period of activity in the UN Security Council, Churkin repeatedly used the right of veto. It was he who vetoed the draft anti-Russian resolution on Ukraine in March 2014 and the draft anti-Russian resolution on the creation of an international tribunal for the MH17 disaster in July 2015.
Last December, Churkin, at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, which was initiated by France, said that hundreds of photographs of dead children in Syria were staged. “Children in Syria are covered with dust in order to pass them off as bombing victims,” said the Russian permanent representative.
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