Earlier, Kislytsya said that Russia allegedly cannot document its rights to permanent membership in the UN Security Council.
According to him, after the liquidation of the USSR in 1991, Russia never went through the procedure for joining the UN, provided for by the charter.
He also accused the UN Secretariat of hiding documents related to this topic and called on the organization to admit the mistake and disclose them.
“Mr. Kislitsa bases his position on a set of pseudo-legal statements, pretending that they are an axiom.
However, one does not need to be an expert in the field of international law to understand that his speech is based on empty demagoguery and deliberate distortion of facts,” Polyansky told RIA Novosti.
He noted that the Ukrainian permanent representative confuses the terms "continuer state" (which is Russia in relation to the USSR) and "successor state" (which is Ukraine in relation to the USSR), while they are not synonymous.
The official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, commented on the statement of Ukraine's permanent representative to the organization, Sergei Kislitsa, who questioned Russia's right to be a member of the UN Security Council.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, recalled that Russia is the successor to the Soviet Union.
Zakharova also cited three documents at the briefing, including reading out the decision of the CIS Council of Heads of State dated December 21, 1991, which states that “the countries of the commonwealth support Russia in continuing the USSR’s membership in the UN, including permanent membership in the Security Council and other international organizations."