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Get Out Of UN Security Council
LEONID NEVZLIN

Russia's membership in international organizations is a prerogative that it should be deprived of.

After the First World War, the world rethought its political structure, and the League of Nations appeared. After the Second World War, it became obvious that this structure could not cope, and the League ceased to exist.

After the Russian aggression in Ukraine, the world community again has a lot of work to do to rethink its structure.

Because in a situation where one paranoid took a huge country hostage, and then attacked a neighbor and now threatens the world with a nuclear explosion, something is clearly wrong. International institutions did not work. Mankind must modernize them.

The United Nations, the successor to the League of Nations, has failed in its task of maintaining and strengthening peace. And how could it?

Russia's participation in the UN Human Rights Council was absurd and leveled the positive changes that the Council could bring. The exclusion of Russia from it is the right step. It is a pity that the world needed to witness the genocide in order to decide on it.

In the UN Security Council, Russia has the right of veto, which makes this body completely meaningless. The reform of the Security Council has been discussed for many years, but to no avail. The war in Ukraine has given a new impetus to this process, and last week the General Assembly unanimously adopted a new rule that provides for a debate within 10 days after a permanent member uses its veto.

But this is not enough.

Russia must cease to be a permanent member of the UN — this will only fixate the real position of the pariah into which it has driven itself. After all, Russia is violating various UN principles, seriously threatening global peace and security. Technically, this can be done on the basis of Chapter 18 of the UN Charter, which allows amendments to the Charter subject to the approval of two-thirds of the members of the General Assembly.

Russia's membership in international organizations, which gives it the influence it now has in world affairs, is a prerogative that it should be deprived of.

The world cannot be so insanely organized, where a country has the right of veto in the UN Security Council, when its warriors killed 20,000 civilians in Mariupol alone in two months; a country defiantly bombing the capital of a UN member state exactly at the moment when the Secretary General of this organization is there.

Leonid Nevzlin, Facebook

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