Instead of defending international peace, Russia is challenging its very existence, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
Russia should be expelled from the UN Security Council: its membership calls into question the organization’s legitimacy. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba in an opinion column for the American edition of The Hill, the press service of the ministry reports.
“Is it possible to maintain peace based on rules if a country that has the status of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (that is, one of the five countries that must protect it) boldly and defiantly trampled on it? Russia attacked .a neighboring country, is trying to annex its territory, systematically bombing residential areas, destroying entire cities and villages, raping, robbing, committing genocide and introducing perhaps the largest campaign for the forced expulsion of children in modern history. Russia didn’t just violate the peace — it tore it to pieces,” Kuleba wrote in The Hill.
Kuleba noted that in 1945 the UN was created to protect common rules and the rule of law.
“Russia’s war against Ukraine has revealed the truth: one of these judges is a fraud. Instead of defending international peace, Russia is challenging its very existence. Instead of being a defender, it made an attack. Instead of a panacea. , it has become a disease”, emphasized Kuleba.
The minister also recalled Russia’s attack on Georgia in 2008, the threat to Moldova, the annexation of Ukrainian Crimea in 2014, the interference in US domestic politics, the use of energy and information as weapons, the imposition of militarism and imperialism to its people. , the systematic use of doping in international sports, destabilization and exploitation of African countries by Wagner mercenaries – that is, about how Russia
He pointed out that the war launched by Russia against Ukraine should not only end in defeat for the Putin regime, but also in a fundamental rethinking of the international security system, as well as the reform of international institutions designed to keep the peace.
“Russia has never legally received the status of a permanent member of the UN Security Council and must be expelled from this respected body. Otherwise, the criminal in the judge’s seat will continue to question the legitimacy of the entire system of the UN,” Kuleba summarized. .
Earlier, Dmitry Kuleba said that a special tribunal awaits Putin and his associates.
It’s all over with Putin – Kuleba
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Source: korrespondent
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