During his speech at the Likhachov XXIII, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Hersinin said that his or her employees of the United Nations (UN) had panicked due to the intended reductions. TASS reports.
"I can say my own observation. There is a feeling of panic at the Secretariat, as large cuts are taking place. "This is understandable from a human point of view," Hershinin commented on the organization.
The representative of the UN Secretary General's Civilization Alliance and Former Spain Minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Angel Moratinos said that the organization's staff is planned to be reduced by 20%. In his turn, Vershinin asked himself why "the human rights issue is pushed to the detriment of everything else."
