The meeting is called to order. The agenda is adopted. I have received a letter from the representative of ukraine to the u. N. , requesting that his excellency, mr. Volodymyr zelenskyy, president of ukraine, be invited to participate via video teleconference in todays meeting, in accordance with rule 37. Would any member wish to take the floor on this matter . I gave the floor to the representative of the Russian Federation. Thank you, mr. President. Our delegation of objects to the virtual participation of the president of ukraine, zelenskiy, in todays meeting. We would like to explain our objection. We are not opposing the participation of the president of ukraine or his representative in the meeting. I will repeat once again for protocol and for those who will try to distort our possession, we do not object to the participation in this meeting. However, this participation must begin person, he must be physically present in the Council Chamber. These are the rules that govern the wo
Assets. But there are also quite a few with little more, a little more than a charitable arm of a small family enterprise, and their assets number in the thousands rather than the billions. Think about the constellation, 81,777, small ones, large ones. There are also then a handful of older foundations led by carnegie that have been dispensing grants and forwarding agendas for more than a century, all the emerge in the last decade with articulated vision about purpose, intent, scope. If carnegie symbolized the perpetuity foundation whose boards, missions and goals changed over decades, but whose work endured generation after generation after generation, among the more subtle changes that have really given birth in the last two years is the creation of a number of sunset foundations. These sunset foundations symbolized by gates or atlantic philanthropies which is about to cease operations in a few months, they are designed to close before the death of a benefactor, or in a specified num
Blasphemously referring to it as bandits and terrorists. Such callous steps are fraught with a risk of a real civil war in ukraine. The first blood has already been shed. The citizens of the southeast repeatedly warned the authorities that they are ready to serve as human shields in a number of regions regular units of Ukrainian Army and internal forces openly objected to firing on their fellow citizens. There are cases where troops switched over to the side of the people. Is this perhaps why the selfappointed leaders in kiev are using fighters from the right sector and other illegal arms formations on whose heels they in essence came to power . For example individuals were deployed in black unforce, individuals belonging neither to the ministry of defense of ukraine nor to internal forces. Who is command of these units . Of course very few here can harbor any illusions regarding the independence of actions of kiev. This is why the question arises maybe kiev was to launch a scenario fo
Russian supply . Uest they are the big player they supply in europe and there are small quantities that should be going east to china and that is actually something under discussion this week, and then next month Vladimir Putin will go to china. They are one of the major gas suppliers. Years, youvecent all probably heard about the natural gas boom in the u. S. In the u. S. Is now producing as much gas as russia. That is true, but it is also pretty much all for domestic consumption. The u. S. May start exporting gas to other markets in a few years time, other than mexico and some transfers to canada, a few out of alaska, it is not a big exporter at this point. Share of russias natural gas exports by destination, this is for 2012. Guest germany is the big single buyer. The smaller European Countries are quite vulnerable as well. Dependentem are 100 on russian gas. You look at the case of the baltic states, belarus. Ukraine depends on it. And the further west you get, the u. K. , spain, f
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