Ned Price, US State Department Spokesperson referred to Russian officials recently publicly going after several countries, like Armenia during a regular press briefing at the State Department. He commented the Russian parliamentary speaker saying do not go towards the Western institutions.
“We see it as Russia attempting to impose its will on sovereign countries. We see it most vividly on Ukraine, where Russia has sent its forces, with all of their brutality, in an effort to impose its will over the people of Ukraine, to remove the government of Ukraine, and to deprive Ukraine of its sovereignty, its independence, its democracy. We’ve seen Russia act that way in less acute – using less acute tactics in the context of countries throughout the region.
But again, the UN Charter, international law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – all of these things uphold the concept of sovereignty, or independence, of territorial integrity. And it is precisely those elements that Russia is violating in the case of Ukraine, and in some cases violating in the case of countries well beyond Ukraine”, Price said.
