Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council, warned against Western calls to reconsider the status of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, including the right of veto, vowing that the organization would face the fate of what was known as the "League of Nations."
Commenting on calls by Western countries to reconsider permanent membership in the UN Security Council, Medvedev said in a statement, "The permanent members of the UN Security Council should not be subject to review, including the right of veto."
He stressed that in the event of this review, the United Nations "will face a systemic crisis, as a result of which the organization will repeat the fate of the League of Nations (1920-1946), the first global organization that failed to perform tasks related to ensuring collective security. After the Second World War, the tasks of this organization were transferred to the United Nations.
Medvedev stressed that the number of permanent members of the UN Security Council can be increased, but "their powers must be preserved."
He urged the rejection of what he called the Western idea of "order on rules" as unacceptable and harmful, an idea dictated by "the obsessive desire of the Anglo-Saxons, to the point of psychological perversions, to lay an ideological basis for their attempts to dominate the world".
After Russia’s war on Ukraine, calls from Kyiv and some of its Western allies escalated to the necessity of reviewing the Security Council system, its permanent membership, and the foundations of possessing the veto, which Russia enjoys along with 4 other countries, the United States, China, France and Britain.