It seems like the worst April Fool's joke in history, but accused war criminal Vladimir Putin is about to take control of the UN Security Council - with the implicit blessing of the US, France and Britain - just weeks after he was globally indicted for the crimes.

In addition, the person who has just been appointed as Putin's emissary to speak at this session of the Security Council is his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who fled in the autumn when evidence of Russian atrocities against Ukraine was presented to him.. Laughter erupted at the G20 summit in New Delhi last month when Lavrov complained that Ukraine started the war by attacking Russia..

“How can the United States calmly watch how this car rushes into the abyss? ' write in an article for TIME Yale Senior Leadership Institute President Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, U.S. Senator and Senate Armed Services Committee member Richard Blumenthal, and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman..

In 1986, as First Lady, Nancy Reagan coined the slogan \! » in the context of drug abuse. The authors believe that the US must use every ounce of its influence, including its rarely used veto power, to prevent a close friend of Vladimir Putin from heading the UN Security Council and abusing the organization's rostrum to whitewash Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine..

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March 17, 2023. The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin, arguing that " The five permanent members of the Security Council - the United States, China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom - are collectively known as the Five.. Each of them individually can veto any resolution.

The ten elected members of the Security Council, who are elected for a two-year term on a rotating basis without the right to re-election, have no veto power and, of course, no other UN member state has such a right..

“In the ten years since Putin returned to power in 2012, Russia has used this valuable right 24 times, that is, twice a year.. China used it ten times, once a year. But the US has used this force only three times in a decade.. What could be a better reason than the need to use this right right now,” the authors emphasize..

According to Article 27 of the UN Charter, any member country that is a party to a dispute must abstain from voting. Last year, in violation of Article 27 and several articles of the UN Charter, Russia vetoed a draft Security Council resolution aimed at ending Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.. As a party to the dispute and as an aggressor country, Russia should have withdrawn itself from the vote and be deprived of the right to veto.

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The resolution presented by Albania and the United States received the support of 11 members of the Security Council, but was vetoed by the Russian Federation. China, India and the UAE abstained. In this resolution, the Council of 15 members would condemn in the strongest terms "

This was followed by a large-scale demonstration of global unity: 141 countries voted in favor of a UN General Assembly resolution demanding an immediate end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.. Russia blocked this resolution as well.. Shelby Magee and Yulia Shlamova of the Atlantic Council quickly and accurately wrote that this situation "

It is also impressive that now it seems that history is repeating itself.. Because Russia also gained control of the UN Security Council immediately after it launched its invasion of Ukraine a year ago.. Russia took advantage of this position to shamelessly promote a false counterfactual narrative about Ukrainian “neo-Nazis” while banning meetings, speakers, and resolutions that did not fit its sinister agenda..

For example, at meetings of the Security Council, the Russian Federation passed off pro-Russian falsifiers as “activists of Ukrainian civil society” to show that Ukrainian society allegedly despises Zelensky and will welcome Putin’s rule with open arms – which was ridiculous and debunked in the last year. Moscow has promoted disinformation about the "

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Russia further manipulated UN rules to push unprecedented institutional condemnation of economic sanctions through procedural shenanigans, which were then feverishly broadcast to Third World countries to undermine Russia's peaceful economic blockade.. Moscow also organized nonsensical meetings about "

“On top of all this, Russia has never been admitted to the UN, not to mention the legitimate membership in the Security Council. Not a single nation, including Russia, was even recognized as the legal successor of the former collapsed empire.. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, thirteen of the fifteen former Soviet republics, from Armenia to Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan, had to apply for membership..

Only Ukraine and Belarus had the right to vote, since they were among the first members since 1945,” the authors recall..

Nowhere in the diplomatic statements of the USSR was Russia defined as equivalent to 15 members of the USSR. You can't just join the UN by expressing your desire - it must be ratified through formal procedures.

“Without an application for membership, without consideration of a candidacy and without a vote for ratification, Russia is simply not yet considered a state with legal status in the UN,” the article says..