United States, Russia debate over Bangladesh

The United States and Russia appeared to have locked in a debate over political developments in Bangladesh.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Russian embassy in Bangladesh said that the country was 'invariably committed' to its principled stance on non-interfering in domestic affairs of third countries. 

It mentioned that according to the 'United Nations Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the Protection of their Independence and Sovereignty' dated 1965, 'no State has the right to intervene, directly or indirectly, for any reason whatever, in the internal or external affairs of any other State'. 
'States like Bangladesh, which shape their foreign and internal policy to serve their own national interests instead of following the lead of external powers, take the similar approach. We fully support the aspiration of these countries to independently determine the ways of their further development and constitute a system not subject to neocolonial methods,’ said the Russian embassy's statement.
Sharing a news report on the Russian statement by a local daily, the United States embassy in Dhaka on Wednesday  asked on its official Twitter account whether the non-interference policy applied to Ukraine. 
'Does it apply to Ukraine?' the United States embassy wrote tagging a slogan 'Stand With Ukraine.'
Russia's statement came days after the US embassy in Dhaka in a recent statement said that human rights are at the centre of the United States foreign policy and therefore, the US embassy takes seriously all allegations of human rights violations. 
The United States position was reaffirmed immediately after US ambassador Peter Haas ended his prescheduled meeting with Maayer Daak, a platform of enforced disappearance victims’ family members, at Shahinbagh in the city on December 14 due to 'security concerns'.
The US ambassador's meeting with the families of the enforced disappearance victims was interrupted by protestors, who attempted to enter the building where the ambassador was located, the United States embassy later stated.
'We have raised this matter at the highest levels of the Bangladeshi government, as well as with the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, DC,' the US embassy's statement said. 
'Human rights are at the centre of United States foreign policy. Therefore, the US embassy takes seriously all allegations of human rights violations and regularly meets with a wide variety of human rights organisations,' it said, adding that the US embassy had not received any prior communication from Mayer Kanna over the past several years.
The Russian embassy in its Tuesday's statement said, 'Unfortunately, in recent years [especially, after the Cold War’s end], the problem of violating the principle of non-interference has become particularly relevant, as many believe that they can infringe on the said principle for the sake of their own interests.'
It said the hegemonic ambitions were most vividly displayed by the countries, which identify themselves as developed democracies.
'Not only they indulge in intervening in internal affairs of sovereign UN member states, but also resort to blatant blackmailing, illegal restrictions, etc. Hence, the sovereignty of many countries in the world is exposed to the unprecedented risk,' said the statement made available on the Russian embassy’s official Facebook page on Wednesday. 
It also said that such policy evidently results in undermining sustainability of the world order, brings chaos and havoc. The incomplete list includes Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan, the statement added.