Russia took charge this Saturday The monthly rotating presidency of the Security Council In the midst of the UN’s criticism of Ukraine and its allies, he reminds Moscow that it has repeatedly mocked the international legal system.
Each of the 15 members of the Security Council, 5 permanent and 10 rotational, assumes the duty of presidency for a period of one month. Russia last presided over the UN’s highest decision-making body. It was February 2022, When he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Moreover It’s the first time the president of a country to chair the Security Council has an international arrest warrant for war crimes.. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an injunction last month for the forced deportation of minors from Ukrainian orphanages.
gun control controversy
presidential position does not grant special privileges, Vasily Nebenzia, Russia’s ambassador to the UN, told Russian news agency TASS that it would allow them to “supervise” certain discussions, including gun control. Thus, they will raise the need for a “new world order” that will “replace the unipolar order”.
Ukraine vehemently protested Russia’s takeover of the Presidency of the Security Council, but United States of America He replied that he could not prevent Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council and veto power, from taking office.. The US, UK, France and China also have veto power.
“Unfortunately, Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council, so there is no practical legal way to avoid this reality,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre replied. He also warned Moscow He will “continue to use his seat on the council to spread disinformation” and justify his invasion of Ukraine.
in February 2022 Russia has already vetoed the resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine.. China, India and the United Arab Emirates abstained. In September, Moscow vetoed a resolution calling for Ukraine to reverse its annexation of four regions. Brazil, China, Gabon and India abstained.
Kyiv rejection
They expressed their absolute rejection from Kiev, and their Foreign Minister Dimitro Kuleba described the truth as follows: A “bad joke” associated with the Anglo-Saxon tradition’s April Fools’ Day, which is celebrated exactly on April 1.
Kuleba, whose government has been calling for more force against Moscow within the UN for a year, said, “Russia has usurped its place.” ““The world cannot be a safe place with Russia on the Security Council,” he said. he added, using the hashtag #InsecurityCouncil (“Security Council”) in his message.
For Mikhail Podoliak, adviser to the President of Ukraine “another violation of international law”“Russia, an entity waging an aggressive war, violating the rules of International Humanitarian Law and Criminal Law, destroying the UN Charter and neglecting nuclear security, cannot preside over the world’s most important security organization,” he pointed out.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has already called. A reform or “dissolution” before the Security Council was unable to prevent its military invasion of the east of the country due to Russia’s veto.