3, 2023.Īmong Russia's planned meetings in April will be a ministerial-level debate chaired by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the defense of the U.N. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Moscow's presidency is a "bad joke."įILE - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addresses a United Russia party leadership meeting in Moscow, Feb. Ukraine is outraged that Russia is on the council, much less chairing it. "While they are misbehaving gravely on Ukraine and just tearing the Charter apart, my expectation is they will do this presidency in a professional manner." "Russia is a permanent member," said one council diplomat. encourages Russia to conduct itself professionally so the council can carry out its work. "As unpalatable as it may be to see Russia presiding over the council, the reality is this is a largely ceremonial position which rotates to council members month by month in alphabetical order," she said, adding that the U.S. Charter" and invades its neighbor has no place on the council, but there is "no feasible international legal pathway" around that. The council decided that Rwanda would get its chance, once the alphabetical rotation had been completed, and it did sit as president in December 1994.Īs for Russia's presidency, no one can prevent it.įrom the White House podium on Thursday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that a country that "flagrantly violates the U.N. "So, they skipped Rwanda, and the seat went to Spain, which was next in alphabetical order." They just had experienced the genocide and they had a new government," Security Council Report told VOA. "But clearly the new government had just taken up the seat they didn't have time to prepare. Rwanda's council seat was vacant for six weeks from mid-July, when Pasteur Bizimungu became Rwanda's president, until September, when Rwanda should have been council president. At the time, Rwanda was a non-permanent council member. The only time in recent history when a country missed its presidency was in 1994 in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, according to Security Council Report, a think tank that studies the council's transparency and effectiveness. Charter and international law - also in the middle of a council meeting hoping to prevent it. On the 24th day of its presidency, Putin launched his "special military operation" into Ukraine, in a flagrant breach of the U.N. The last time Russia came up in the rotation was February 2022. It can authorize military action, deploy peacekeepers, sanction nations and individuals, and refer possible war crimes cases to the International Criminal Court.Ĭouncil members take turns as president according to alphabetical order (by English spellings). The 15-nation Security Council is the U.N.'s most powerful organ. "If they try and use the presidency to try to stir up trouble for the Ukrainians, or push their narratives about the war, they will just get an enormous amount of blowback," he added.įILE - Representatives participate in a Security Council meeting at U.N. director for International Crisis Group, told VOA. I think that people should understand that this month is more of a headache than an advantage for the Russians," Richard Gowan, U.N. "I think that people are seeing it the wrong way round. On March 17, The Hague-based ICC issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader for his alleged role in the abduction and unlawful deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia. Security Council?" Andrius Kubilius, a Lithuanian member of the European Parliament, asked during a session Wednesday, referring to Putin. "The question is very clear: Can the war criminal head the U.N. With Russia's war in Ukraine entering its 14th month, an arrest warrant being issued by the International Criminal Court for President Vladimir Putin, and Moscow planning to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus, critics are questioning how Russia could helm the U.N.'s most powerful organ. Security Council for the month, and no one can prevent it. Meetings conducted by the Security Council in 2022ĭocument links will work once the document has been published in the Official Document System.On Saturday, in what some critics say sounds more like an April Fools' joke than reality, Russia will take over the rotating presidency of the U.N.
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