KYIV — Ukraine on Monday known as for Russia to be faraway from the United Nations, the place Moscow can veto any decision as a everlasting member of the Security Council.
“Ukraine calls on the member states of the UN… 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 international ministry stated in an announcement.
The assertion stated that Russia “illegally occupies the seat of the USSR in the UN Security Council” for the reason that break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.
“From a legal and political point of view, there can be only one conclusion: Russia is an usurper of the Soviet Union’s seat in the UN Security Council,” the ministry added.
“Three decades of its illegal presence in the UN have been marked by wars and seizures of other countries’ territories,” the assertion stated.
The 5 everlasting members of the 15-seat UN Security Council have veto energy over UN resolutions.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba earlier stated Ukraine was planning to name for Russia to be eliminated as a everlasting member of the UN Security Council.— Agence France-Presse
