The UN Security Council exposes Russia’s isolation

Russia’s isolation was evident at a meeting of the UN Security Council this Friday, a day after the General Assembly approved a resolution calling for Russia’s withdrawal from Ukraine and an end to the war, with 141 countries voting in favor, seven against – including Russia and Belarus – and 32 abstained, including China and India.

UN Secretary General António Guterres summarized the crimes committed in Ukraine and reminded that the permanent member of the Council, Russia, committed a “flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and international law”. As a permanent member, right of veto on Moscow blocs any attempt by this international body to condemn the invasion of Ukraine.

when he spoke Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister said that “Putin will lose, sooner than expected” and accused Russia of carrying out “the biggest state kidnapping of children in modern history”. He wanted to end his speech with a minute of silence for the victims of “aggression”. Russian Ambassador, Vasilij Nebenzja, hit the microphone several times, thus breaking the minute of silence. Moments later Nebenzia asked him to leave “for all the victims”.

For his part, Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, asked members to maintain support for Ukraine and prevent us from “assuming indifference to human life”. [de Vladimir Putin] as your own.”

British Foreign Secretary, James Cleverley, he pointed out in his speech that the necessity and usefulness of the Charter of the United Nations was called into question because of the war in Ukraine. «Putin cannot, must not win in Ukraine. Because what is at stake on the battlefield is the international order itself, and that is what is at the heart of the United Nations,” Cleverly said.

According to the position defended by Russia, the current international order protects only the primacy of NATO and its allies. In this context, Russia, faced with the legal framework created by the West, would only be guilty of “violating it by not wanting to accept a Russophobic hornet’s nest on its borders».