Ukraine called on Monday for the exclusion of Russia from the United Nations, more than ten months after the start of the invasion of Russian troops, a request with little chance of success, Moscow having a right veto 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 Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
A seat occupied “illegally” by Russia, says Ukraine
According to Ukrainian diplomacy, Russia “illegally occupies the seat of the USSR in the UN Security Council” since 1991 and the dislocation of the Soviet Union into 15 new countries. “Russia is a usurper of the seat” of the USSR at the United Nations, argued the Ukrainian ministry.
These “three decades of illegal presence in the UN have been marked by wars and the seizure of territories from other countries, a forced change of internationally recognized borders and attempts to satisfy its neo-imperial ambitions”, kyiv lamented in this release.
Launch of a “complex process”
In a tweet, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba hammered him that “Russia’s presence in the Security Council and in the UN as a whole is illegitimate”. kyiv has been facing the Russian armada on the ground for ten months and has already been facing, since 2014, pro-Russian separatists supported and armed by Moscow in the Donbass, in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine said Monday to launch “a complex process”, Russia having a right of veto at the UN Security Council which can block any resolution emanating from another member state of this forum.