Russia has asked controversial Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters will be a speaker at a UN Security Council session focused on the war in Ukraine, Moscow’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN announced on Wednesday.
Waters has repeatedly taken a contradictory stance on the war in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion last February. last AugustHe accused US President Joe Biden of “fostering war in Ukraine”, calling him a “war criminal”. explosive interview with US broadcaster CNN. He also slammed NATO for “pushing straight to the Russian border”.
The British artist was asked to be “a speaker at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the prospects for a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis in the context of increasing Western arms shipments to that country”. wrote on his Telegram channel.
The meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 8th at 4PM CET. It’s unclear whether Waters will actually speak. The UN spokesperson for the Secretary-General was not immediately available for comment.
earlier this weekPolly Samson – wife of David Gilmour, one of Pink Floyd’s members and songwriter on the band’s last two albums – called Waters a “Putin supporter”, adding that he was “anti-Semitic”. [his] rotten core.
Waters, 78, is one of the founding members of Pink Floyd. He left the group in 1985.