Zakharova: Idea of stripping Russia of right of veto in UNSC is insane
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said that the collective West’s idea of stripping Russia of the right of veto in the UN Security Council is insane and meaningless.
“Lately, many politicians, experts and journalists in the West have completely lost the culture of political dialogue. In their anti-Russian hysteria, they have gone as far as an absolutely insane proposal for stripping Russia of the right of veto in the UN Security Council – ‘insane’ not only in the sense of out of the ordinary and inappropriate behavior, but simply devoid of reason and meaning,” Zakharova told the Federation Council’s commission on information policy and interaction with the media on Wednesday.
Zakharova recalled that the founders of the UN had established it not as a club of like-minded fellows, but as “a platform for finding solutions between countries and regions, political forces and systems that adhere to diametrically opposed positions.”
“Today, some actively instill a myth the UN Security Council should be a body that unites exclusively like-minded members sharing the same political platform or position. In the meantime, this is a place where all members share a common attitude to international law and the UN,” Zakharova emphasized. “In this sense, we really must be united, we must profess and implement international law and the UN Charter and respect and use the UN instruments in terms of common approaches to respect for the created mechanism. But this does not mean at all that only one concept should be implemented there.”
Zakharova drew attention to the fact that the Western countries were undermining the authority of the UN.
“The collective West seeks to maintain its waning dominance on the world scene and for this reason it is aggressively pressing for a concept of a rules-based world order. It implies aggressive revision of the entire international legal architecture and creation of alternative decision making mechanisms bypassing those existing in the UN. All this will lead and is already leading to the undermining the organization’s credibility as a cornerstone of multilateralism,” she explained.
Source: Itar tass
Edited by Hamda Mustafa