Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s Deputy First Permanent Representative of the organization, said in an interview with the newspaper that two-thirds of the votes in the General Assembly (GA) would be required to move the UN headquarters from New York. “News”.
He recalled that currently the UN includes 193 states. However, according to Polyansky, the transfer of headquarters will be difficult, as developing countries are unlikely to accept such an option.
Polyansky explained this by the fact that the permanent missions of the countries have been operating in New York for a long time and the life of diplomats has been established in the city. At the same time, Polyansky acknowledges that everything can change if, at a certain stage, a critical pile of unresolved issues forces a majority of countries to vote and choose another country for headquarters.
Previously in Turkey declaration About the need to reform the structure of the UN, because in its current form it cannot effectively deal with the maintenance of peace and security and develop concrete solutions to prevent major humanitarian disasters.