Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating ...

Russia took over the United Nations Security Council rotating presidency on Saturday promising to act as an honest broker, Moscow's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky ...

Bernard-Henri Lévy is half-right.

Russia's Security Council presidency was considered by some Western countries, particularly Ukraine, as a symbolic blow to the UN. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy even suggested that some ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — First the Russians gave the U.N. spotlight to the commissioner of children’s rights accused with President ... taken to Russia. For the informal Security Council meeting ...

Mr. Lévy would have the UN negate that decision and give the seat, and veto, to Ukraine. Welcome to the fight, we say. We’ve been warning about the illegitimacy of Russia’s role in the security ...

Or, as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky put it, Russia’s presidency on the Security Council is “absurd”. Russia has gamed UN rules too. The legal basis for allowing Russia to replace the Soviet ...

Russia’s membership has no legal basis and should be transferred.

A member of Russian President Vladimir Putin's powerful Security Council on Tuesday warned that the more destructive the ...

The UN Security Council president presides over meetings and gets to decide the topics of signature sessions Russia is widely accused of violating the UN Charter by invading Ukraine Vladimir Putin ...

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