Ukraine asked on Monday to exclude Russia from the United Nations, in an initiative with little chance of success, since Moscow has veto power in the UN Security Council.
“Ukraine calls on UN member states (…) to deprive the Russian Federation of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to exclude it from the UN as a whole,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in a statement. declaration.
For Ukrainian diplomacy, Russia “illegally occupies the USSR seat in the UN Security Council” since 1991, when the former Soviet Union was divided into 15 new countries, arguing that “Russia is a usurper of the place.”
“The three decades of illegal presence at the UN have been marked by wars and the seizure of other countries’ territories, a forced shift of internationally recognized borders, and attempts to satisfy its neo-imperial ambitions,” kyiv said in the same statement.
In a message on the social network Twitter, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba added that “Russia’s presence in the Security Council and in the UN as a whole is illegitimate.”
Russia is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and has veto power.
The United States of America, China, France and the United Kingdom are the other countries that have a permanent seat in this body.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 14 million people -6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million to European countries-, according to the most recent data from the UN, which catalogs this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
Right now, 17.7 million Ukrainians need humanitarian aid and 9.3 million need food aid and shelter.
The Russian invasion — justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security — was condemned by the broader international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing on Russia from political and economic sanctions.
Source: TSF
