Izvestia newspaper: Can Russia be expelled from the UN Security Council?

A report published by the Russian newspaper Izvestia confirmed that the attempts of Europe and the United States to isolate or suspend Russia's membership in the Security Council have become clear, and the report added that despite the United Nations Charter not allowing this, the Europeans in particular continue to search for options.

According to the report, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, recently suggested proceeding with the expulsion of Russia from the Security Council, but it seems impossible, because the law requires that the decision to exclude a member be unanimous.

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The author of the report, Maria Shibu, stated that the Soviet Union was not only a founding member of the United Nations, but rather adopted the idea ideologically, and since Russia has become its legitimate heir, its exclusion from the UN Security Council requires decision-making by all member states, including Russia and China, which You will not be satisfied with such a decision.

The report indicated that Michel admits that there is no mechanism for excluding Russia so far, but he hopes to find a solution in the future.

And he contented himself with accusing Russia of violating international law, considering that if Moscow did so as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, this means that "there is a defect in international law," from his point of view, and it will be necessary to establish a mechanism to suspend membership.

The report revealed that this is not the first time that attempts have been made to exclude Russia from the United Nations structures. Last April, Moscow was suspended from the United Nations Human Rights Council by a majority of 93 countries, while 24 countries rejected the resolution, and 58 others abstained. about voting.

But Russia announced its withdrawal from the council the same day before the vote was completed.

In mid-March, Moscow withdrew from the European Council.

impossibility

The author stresses that Russian and American experts agree that it is impossible to exclude Russia from the UN Security Council without destroying the Council itself, and although Washington wants to exclude Russia from the permanent members of the Security Council, it does not see an opportunity for this.

Shibu notes that Washington - instead - seeks to isolate Russia from all other international institutions, including the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Financial Stability Board and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, and the United States also expects to remove Russian government employees from the Group of 20 and ban the exchange of information about Missile defense systems with Russia.

According to the author, Russia - for its part - believes that its exclusion from the UN Security Council will lead to its destruction.

It stated that Dmitry Medvedev, Vice-President of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, predicted that the United Nations would receive the fate of the “bankrupt” League of Nations, the organization that preceded the United Nations and was formed in 1920 with the aim of ensuring peace and cooperation between countries, from which the Soviet Union was expelled in 1939 on The background to the war between Russia and Finland, before the whole League collapsed with the start of World War II.