“As confirmation: our principled position is that we do not believe that the exclusion of countries contributes to the long-term search for peace,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, said that Russia's exclusion from the UN is impossible, there are no legal grounds for this, but if someone finds a non-legal way to do this, the result will be the destruction of the entire system of international relations.