VLADIVOSTOK (Russia): The Western countries' policies towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Gaza Strip are immoral and hypocritical in comparison to their approach to the Ukrainian crisis, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said in an interview with RIA Novosti and RT.

"I say the abandonment of moral principles and certainly apparent contradictions when they see conflicts like in Ukraine as compared to Gaza.

"You see the apparent contradiction, sometimes I call it even apocalyptic, but still, ultimately what is important is then to secure peace," Anwar said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), reported Sputnik.

Commenting on the West's actions in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, Anwar said that the refusal of Western powers to follow the principles of a peaceful settlement is shocking.

"No, we are for peaceful resolution, whether you regard Ukraine or most of Gaza, now with these atrocities inflicted on the Palestinian people in Gaza and the inability, the complete abandonment of principles from the Western powers, that's to me shocking," he said.

The Eastern Economic Forum began on Tuesday and will run through Friday. It is being hosted by the Far Eastern Federal University in Russia's Pacific coast city of Vladivostok. Sputnik is the general information partner of the EEF 2024. - Bernama-Sputnik

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