From the BBC:
“Russia assumes UN Security Council
presidency despite Ukrainian anger”
Russia has taken the presidency of
the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each
of the council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating
pattern. The last time Russia had the presidency, February 2022, it launched a
full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
It means the Security Council is
being led by a country whose president is subject to an international arrest
warrant for alleged war crimes. The International Criminal Court - which is not
a UN institution - issued the warrant for Vladimir Putin last month.
Despite Ukraine's complaints, the
United States said it could not block Russia - a permanent council member -
from assuming the presidency. The other permanent members of the council are
the UK, US, France, and China. The role is mostly procedural, but Moscow's
ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, told the Russian Tass news agency that
he planned to oversee several debates, including one on arms control. He said
he would discuss a "new world order" that, he said, was coming to
"replace the unipolar one".
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro
Kuleba called Russia's presidency "the worst joke ever for April Fool's
Day" and a "stark reminder that something is wrong with the way
international security architecture is functioning". Ukraine's
presidential adviser, Mykhaylo Podolyak, said the move was "another rape
of international law... an entity that wages an aggressive war, violates the
norms of humanitarian and criminal law, destroys the UN Charter, neglects
nuclear safety, can't head the world's key security body". President
Volodymyr Zelensky called last year for the Security Council to reform or
"dissolve altogether", accusing it of failing to take enough action
to prevent Russia's invasion. He has also called for Russia to be removed of
its member status.
But the US has said its hands were
tied as the UN charter does not allow for the removal of a permanent member. "Unfortunately,
Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council and no feasible
international legal pathway exists to change that reality," White House
press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told a news briefing this week. She added
the US expects Moscow "to continue to use its seat on the council to
spread disinformation" and justify its actions in Ukraine.
The UN Security Council is an
international body responsible for maintaining peace. Five nations are
permanently represented on the Security Council. They reflect the post-war
power structure that held sway when the council was formed. Members of this
group work alongside 10 non-permanent member countries. Russia's presence as a
permanent member on the Security Council means it can veto resolutions. To pass
a Security Council vote, there must be nine votes in favour, with none of the
five permanent members voting against. In February last year Russia vetoed a
resolution that intended to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine (China, India
and the United Arab Emirates all abstained). In September it vetoed a
resolution calling for the reversal of its illegal annexation of four regions
of Ukraine. Brazil, China, Gabon and India abstained.
^ In case you needed more evidence
that the UN needs to be reformed. Russia should not be a Permanent Member of
the Security Council anymore. It definitely should not be its President.
Imagine if the UN was around when
Adolf Hitler was leading Germany (with World War 2 and the Holocaust going on)
and Nazi Germany was a UN Permanent Security Council Member.
Then imagine if Nazi Germany became
the President of the UN. That would mean a War Criminal is leading the United
Nations.
Vladimir Putin and Russia are the
same as Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Right now Nazi Russia is the
President of the UN and a War Criminal is leading the United Nations.
It is also the 1 year Anniversary of
the Bucha Massacre (where Putin and his Nazi Russians tortured and murdered 458
Ukrainian Civilians – Men, Women and Children. ^
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