“I called some permanent representatives at this organization and asked: “Do you even know what Bucha, Kramatorsk is, what happened there?”
They told me: "No."
“Then how do you approve of these kinds of decisions?”
We were told: “And so the United States said,” TASS quoted the diplomat as saying.
According to Antonov, many countries did not want to accept such a position until the very end, but Washington managed to break them and force them to accept their point of view.
Earlier it was reported that a bipartisan group of US senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calling for Russia to be stripped of its permanent observer status at the Organization of American States in connection with the events in Ukraine.
In addition, US President Joe Biden proposed to exclude Russia from the G20.
At the same time, he acknowledged that this decision is up to the G20 countries.