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Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

‘A bad joke’: Ukraine rages against move to let Russia’s Sergei Lavrov chair UN Security Council

Ukraine has branded the decision to allow Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov to chair a UN Security Council meeting as a “bad joke”.

Mr Lavrov was on Thursday confirmed as the chair of a UN Security Council meeting set to take place in New York in April, despite Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine.

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