Kiev Proposes Removing Russia’s Veto Power in UN Security Council

• 02.22.2017, 13:14
•  Europe,  EEU,  America,  World

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During the meeting of the Security Council Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin stressed that clear rules should be set for implementation of the relevant provisions of the UN Charter. As TASS reports, heproposed removing Russia’s right of veto in the United Nations Security Council in making decisions concerning the situation in Ukraine, on the pretext that Moscow is allegedly a party to the conflict in Donbass. 

"We need urgently to reform the Security Council in order to remove the veto power abuses. The Security Council should be capable of efficiently addressing ‘bloody conflicts’ regardless of the possible presence of a party to the conflict at this table as the SC permanent member," Klimkin said.

He noted that  it is no longer acceptable that paragraph 3 of Article 27 of the Charter, namely that "a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting", continues to be blatantly ignored.

Klimkin also added that Russian "aggression against Ukraine" also "targets European and transatlantic unity as basic elements of the global security order."