British artist Roger Waters of the rock group Pink Floyd will speak on behalf of Russia at the upcoming UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, Russian diplomats stated Wednesday.Dmitry Polyansky, Russias very first deputy UN agent, said Waters participation has been verified for the Russian-requested Security Council session.
Waters himself has neither validated nor denied his presence at the UN head office in New York.
Waters, 79, has blamed the United States and NATO for Russias intrusion of Ukraine, saying in an open letter to the Ukrainian presidents other half last fall: Throwing fuel, in the type of armaments, into a fire fight, has never worked to shorten a war.
Wednesdays UN Security Council session, Polyansky said, will attend to crisis settlement potential customers in Ukraine in the context of increasing Western arms deliveries to this country.
Some reports stated Waters will speak through video link from Switzerland.Waters pro-Russia stance has resulted in a public rift with Polly Samson, Pink Floyds former lyricist and the partner of singer David Gilmour, who slammed him as a Putin apologist.
After Russia attacked Ukraine last February, Pink Floyd eliminated its non-Waters-affiliated music from Russian streaming services and launched a single in support of Kyiv.Reuters priced estimate an unnamed UN Security Council diplomat as mocking Waters invite by Russia, saying: Russian diplomacy utilized to be serious.
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