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Kyiv wants to challenge Moscow’s UN membership
Kyiv doubts that Russia’s UN membership is legitimate. photo
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Russia sees itself as the legitimate successor to the Soviet Union and thus as part of the UN. Doubts are coming from Kyiv – after all, different rules applied to other successor states.
According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it has launched an initiative to question the legitimacy of Russia’s membership in the United Nations and all bodies. According to the foreign office in Kyiv, Moscow’s seat in the UN or in the World Security Council is not regulated on the basis of international law, the “Ukrajinska Pravda” quoted on Monday from a letter from the authority. Russia has “wrongly” considered itself a UN member since December 1991.
According to Kiev, the name “Russian Federation” does not appear in the UN charter, and the country has not gone through the necessary admission procedure, such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia after the collapse of Czechoslovakia. The former republics of Yugoslavia also had to re-apply for UN membership after the collapse of the multinational state.
Russia considers itself the legitimate successor to the Soviet Union, which was a founding member of the United Nations. The then Russian President Boris Yeltsin merely informed the United Nations in December 1991 that Russia, with the support of the Commonwealth of Independent States, retained membership in the UN and all bodies.
Ukrainska Pravda