Ukraine Wants Russia Removed From The UN

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le of equality of UN members, the Russian Federation should follow the same international legal path for admission to membership in the organisation as other countries did.”</p><p id="1f3e">Since December 1991, Russia had “falsely” seen itself as a UN member, according to the Ukraine foreign ministry document.</p><p id="61e0">Ukraine takes the view that the name “Russian Federation” does not appear in the UN Charter and insists that Russia did not go through the necessary accession procedures following the break-up of the Soviet Union.</p><p id="dbf8">The Ukraine Foreign Ministry document refers to the procedure followed after Czechoslovakia divided into two countries and to how the former Yugoslav republics had to apply for membership after the break-up of Yugoslavia.</p><p id="f229">The government of the Russian Federation regards itself as the legitimate successor state to the Soviet Union, a founding member of the UN when good old Joe Stalin was the tyrant in place. Now we have another, who regards himself as the <a href="https://readmedium.com/putins-dangerous-delusion-deepens-7867ba9668a5">legitimate successor to Peter the Great</a>, but who is being compared to Stalin and Hitler by most of the world.</p><div id="5378" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/putins-dangerous-delusion-deepens-7867ba9668a5"> <div> <div> <h2>Putin’s Dangerous Delusion Deepens</h2> <div><h3>Comparing himself to Peter the Great is surely a sign of madness</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*1e-zWq5FGCw26NGUkCmOoA.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="3f77">The Russian president at the time of the Soviet meltdown, Boris Yeltsin, simply informed the UN in December 1991 that Russia would retain membership of international bodies with the support of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which was formed following the dissolution of the USSR. He grabbed the UN chair and said ‘It’s mine’. Figuratively of course, but the USSR was well used to throwing its weight around. Nothing has changed, except the man and the name.</p><h1 id="fd6b">What will happen?</h1><p id="9be7">Your guess is as good as mine, but I think that the other permanent members of the Security Council would not want Russia removed precipitately.</p><p id="d970">The Council remains an important and public ‘talking shop’ and cutting ‘Russia’ loose precipitately could be a big diplomatic mistake.</p><p id="3da1">The discussions could take quite some time, and would Russia have a veto on its own expulsion? Or recuse itself from a vote?</p><p id="f64d">Conflict of interest has never been a problem for any members of the UN.</p><p id="38b1">Sources:</p><div id="6b9c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-to-demand-russia-s-removal-from-un-security-council/ar-AA15Ekjo"

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Follow the rules, Vlad. Technically, the Russian Federation did not apply for membership of the UN when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 — Yeltsin just ‘sat in the chair’. Kick them out says Kyiv

United Nations Security Council chamber in the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Image credit: By Per Krohg — Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32410206. Author overlay of Russia Out

How things have moved on. Who would have dared forecast the 300 days since the Russian invasion?

During the war, Ukraine has developed many interesting asymmetric tactics to fight the Russian bear.

And now they have another, not that I expect it to come to anything.

According to a strict reading of the UN Charter and precedents, the Russian Federation should not be a member of the UN until it has formally gone through the membership application process — as did, for example, other ex-Soviet countries when they split from the Soviet Union.

Kyiv has called for Russia’s removal from the United Nations, arguing that the seat was initially granted to the USSR in 1991, not the Russian Federation, rendering their membership “illegitimate”.

“We have a very simple question: Does Russia have the right to remain a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to be in the United Nations at all?” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Sunday.

“We have a convincing and reasoned answer — no, it does not.”

The five permanent members (USA, UK, France, China, USSR (sic)) of the 15-seat Security Council have veto power that can block any resolution.

“The Russian Federation took over the seat of a permanent member of the UN Security Council bypassing the procedures defined by the UN Charter,” the Ukrainian foreign ministry said, and continued, “We believe that, guided by the principle of equality of UN members, the Russian Federation should follow the same international legal path for admission to membership in the organisation as other countries did.”

Since December 1991, Russia had “falsely” seen itself as a UN member, according to the Ukraine foreign ministry document.

Ukraine takes the view that the name “Russian Federation” does not appear in the UN Charter and insists that Russia did not go through the necessary accession procedures following the break-up of the Soviet Union.

The Ukraine Foreign Ministry document refers to the procedure followed after Czechoslovakia divided into two countries and to how the former Yugoslav republics had to apply for membership after the break-up of Yugoslavia.

The government of the Russian Federation regards itself as the legitimate successor state to the Soviet Union, a founding member of the UN when good old Joe Stalin was the tyrant in place. Now we have another, who regards himself as the legitimate successor to Peter the Great, but who is being compared to Stalin and Hitler by most of the world.

The Russian president at the time of the Soviet meltdown, Boris Yeltsin, simply informed the UN in December 1991 that Russia would retain membership of international bodies with the support of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which was formed following the dissolution of the USSR. He grabbed the UN chair and said ‘It’s mine’. Figuratively of course, but the USSR was well used to throwing its weight around. Nothing has changed, except the man and the name.

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Ukraine Wants Russia Removed From The UN

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