"Usurpator of the USSR place": Ukraine initiated the exclusion of the Russian Federation from the UN

According to Dmitry Kuleba, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Russian Federation illegally holds the place of a permanent member of the UN Security Council, as it has not undergone the established procedure. After the collapse of the Union, the plaque of the USSR was simply replaced by the Russian Federation. on Facebook.

Today we have taken an important step, "Kuleba wrote, explaining that Ukrainian diplomats at the official level in detail and reasonably outlined and explained why the Russian Federation in the UN Security Council and the organization is generally illegitimate.

" We provided detailed evidence of how 31 years Therefore, the Russian delegation, in fact, simply occupied the USSR's chair in the UN Security Council - a state that ceased to exist at that time - without any statutory grounds for it, " - said the diplomat. According to him, the Kremlin's representatives simply replaced the name of the plaque -" USSR "On the" Russian Federation ".

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called it a gross violation of Article 4, paragraph 2 of the UN Charter, which describes the only possible legal procedure It will not be reconciled with such falsification, explained the diplomat. "The statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on the illegitimacy In general, "already published on the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

Kuleba recalled that since 1991 the Russian Federation has been vetoed in the UN Security Council in 31 cases-twice as much as any other permanent member of the Security Council, and, according to him, it is only a matter UN. Ukraine calls for the UN countries to deprive the Russian Federation of a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to exclude the country of the aggressor from the UN.

In November, at a meeting of the organization, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to withdraw the right of veto to the Russian Federation, explaining that one of the chairs in the Security Council was still occupied. According to Foreign Policy, US lawmakers representing the Helsinki Commission of Congress have submitted a resolution with a call to the administration of Joe Baiden to initiate the process of exclusion of Russia from the UN Security Council.

The resolution refers to the "flashy violation" of the organization of the organization, in particular the attempt of illegal annexation of part of the territory of Ukraine, crimes against the citizens of Ukraine, the threat of nuclear weapons and other actions, which calls into question the right of the Russian Federation to permanent membership in the UN Security Council.

It should be reminded that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine promised to formally raise the issue of exclusion of the Russian Federation from the UN Security Council. According to the head of the foreign policy, in the West already think about Russia's future after its defeat in the war with Ukraine. Earlier, Focus reported that the petition, with the exception of Russia from the UN, gained more than 200,000 votes.