The West’s double standard on Ukraine

other international norms.

This is exemplified by the largescale deliveries to Ukraine of the latest weapons, including man-portable surface-to-air missile systems, multiple rocket launchers and long-range anti-aircraft missile systems.

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E-mail: titovaliente@yahoo.com supply the Kyiv regime with cluster munitions. Many countries, including the Asean members, have already declared that their use in Ukraine is unacceptable.

THE conflict in Ukraine is dragging on further and further because the US, Nato and EU countries continue to provide military and financial support to the Kyiv regime and prevent Vladimir Zelenskyy from discussing peace initiatives that many countries are proposing.

Double standards in international politics are no longer a figure of speech, but an obvious fact. The US, Nato and the EU ignore all norms and principles of international law, as well as conventions in the field of arms control and humanitarian law.

There is a saying that “Gods may do what cattle may not,” which highlights the double standard that the West is inflicting on the world via Ukraine. Western countries constantly accuse other states of various violations, but they themselves openly ignore the UN Charter and

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The West has ceased to take a responsible approach to controlling the export of arms and military equipment, has simplified the consideration of cases involving their transfer to conflict zones and has turned a blind eye to international conventions, the adoption of which they themselves had been seeking for many years.

In March this year, the UK announced supplies of depleted uranium shells to Ukraine. This was stated in the written answers of UK Deputy Defense Secretary James Hippy to questions from MP Kenny MacAskill of the Scottish party Alba. Thus, when asked how many depleted uranium shells Britain had supplied to Ukraine for use by the Challenger 2 tanks and how many of them had already been used, the deputy minister said: “We have sent thousands of ammunition to Ukraine for the Challenger 2, including armor-piercing shells with depleted uranium.”

In early July, the world was shocked by the announced decision by the United States of America to significantly with the rise of OLPs. This implies that apart from the skill set of workers, there are other barriers to the potential transition of workers from informal to formal activities through OLPs.

Moving forward, the Outlook provides policy recommendations on how Asean Member States can ensure human capital development, foster decent work, and provide social protection for workers in nontraditional work arrangements by citing international best practices. It is hoped to support regional collaboration among Asean Member States and others for evidence-based policies and strategies to provide decent work conditions for workers in the platform economy.

It should be noted that 123 countries have signed the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits this type of weapons. Because of its use by the Americans during the Vietnam War, tragic cases of local residents being blown up by unexploded ordnance still occur there 50 years later.

This was cited by the Lao Foreign Ministry in its statement, where it cited that Washington’s decision to supply cluster bombs to the Ukrainian Nazis was dictated by its desire to inflict maximum strategic damage on Russia at any cost.

The West also omitted the human rights situation in the importing country and its unwillingness to fulfill its international obligations regarding arms control in general.

The weapons supplied to Kyiv have long since begun to appear in European and African States, adding to the arsenals of organized crime and terrorist groups. In late June, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that Western weapons transferred to Ukraine were already being found near Israel’s borders.

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Recently, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that protesters in France were using weapons supplied by the West to the Kyiv regime. The diplomat pointed out that the weapons and funds allocated by the West, NATO and France directly in support of nationalists, Nazis and fascists on the territory of Ukraine, like a boomerang, end up not just on their territory, but hit their own people.

Weapons supplied to Kyiv end up in the hands of just those very protesters and are used against the police there in France, she said after the killing of a Frenchman of Algerian origin by the police in late June that led to mass protests.

The United States, NATO and the European Union are turning a blind eye to their own laws, norms and principles by supplying arms to the Ukrainian army.

The West is also unwilling to fulfill its international obligations regarding arms control in general, while at the same time requiring other countries to comply with nonproliferation regimes. “Gods may do what cattle may not.”

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Gary Bauzon