‘It won’t be possible to sit on two chairs’: Ukraine strongly calls on Mexico to impose sanctions on Russia

February 24 marks one year since Russian troops crossed the border from Ukraine and invade the territory. According to the United Nations Human Rights Office, it is estimated that since the beginning of the war, more than 7 thousand civilians and 11,547 others were injured. However, these are only approximate figures, it is estimated that they could be even higher.

So nearly 365 days after Kremlin forces started a war, the ambassador of Ukraine In Mexico, Oksana Dramaretskcalled on the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), to take strong action against the war conflict.

Although, in an interview for GlobeLiveMedia MexicoThe Ukrainian representative expressed her gratitude for the Mexican position in the UN Security Committee and stressed the need for the Mexican authorities to join the economic and political sanctions against Russia.

“We want, we ask, we ask the Mexican government to join in sanctions against Russia, economic sanctions and political sanctions against Russian politicians involved in this war,” the diplomatic representative interrupted.

It should be recalled that in March 2022, a few days after the beginning of the bombings on Ukrainian territory, President López Obrador declared that, contrary to the measures taken by other world leaders, Mexico would not impose any sanctions of no kind.

“We are not going to take any kind of economic reprisals because we want to maintain good relations with all the governments of the world and we want to be able to talk with the parties in conflict,” he commented.

He also added that the best way to collaborate to end the war would be to “promote dialogue” and not “take center stage”.

“We do not consider that this corresponds to us and we think that the best thing is to promote dialogue (…) We cannot (do) more; We cannot fall into a leading role that has nothing to do with the restraint that must prevail in foreign policy,” he said.

In this respect and first of all, during the interview carried out within the framework of the year of the Russian invasion, Oksana Dramaretsk, expressed its position on President’s statement:

“Either you are on the side of justice, international law and democracy, or you support the criminal regime that reigns in the Kremlin. Today it will not be possible to sit on two chairs. The actions of the ruling regime in Moscow can no longer be tolerated, these actions are criminal,” he said.

Likewise, the ambassador assured that the sanctions are a demonstration “that the democratic world does not tolerate and will not tolerate the actions of criminals” and reiterated that these measures work, since they contribute to “destroy the military machine”. .

“These political and economic sanctions work because they help us end this war because they destroy the Russian military machine. That is why we call not only on Mexico, but also on other Latin American countries to join these sanctions against the Russian regime,” he said.

On February 24, 2022 — and after months of tension in the region — Vladimir Putin announced the start of a “special military operation”. With this, Russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border and the start of shelling was recorded in several cities including kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

In this regard and from Mexico, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón, condemned and called for an end to the Russian military intervention.

Asimismo, a día después de que iniciara la guerra, el embajador de México en la ONU, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, refrendó su posicionamiento en contra de cualquier type de invasion, e hizo énfasis en que las actions emprendidas desde el Kremlin son contraria al international law.