The Estonian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mart Volmer, recommended this Thursday to the Ukrainian authorities to abandon the aspirations of being able to expel Russia from the United Nations, due to lack of international support.
Volmer stressed that Estonia has always been on Ukraine’s side when it comes to calling for sanctions against Russia, acknowledging that the expulsion request is “correct.”
“However, it must be borne in mind that, unfortunately, Ukraine does not have much international support in this matter,” lamented the Estonian diplomatic representative.
Volmer acknowledged that Russia’s expulsion from the UN Security Council and other UN bodies would be possible if more countries sided with Ukraine, which argues that Moscow took advantage of the fall of the former Soviet Union to take a place in these organs.
“It doesn’t seem like something very feasible and worth trying right now,” insisted Volmer, who also believes that if the matter comes to the Security Council table, Russia will assert its veto power.
The Estonian representative believes that it is precisely this aspect that prevents most countries from admitting the possibility of expelling Russia at this time, as they do not believe that it is a “realistic” possibility considering the authority of Moscow.
“Russia must be affected where it is really feasible, where there is some support, where we can keep it out of the decision-making processes in the world,” the Estonian deputy foreign minister concluded.
On Monday, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called for Russia’s exclusion from the United Nations.
“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,” Ukrainian diplomacy said in a statement. release.
For kyiv, Russia “illegally occupies the seat of the USSR 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.”
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 Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 and still ongoing, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
Source: TSF
