The Ukrainian chief not solely used his UN speech to name for Russian fighters and officers to be prosecuted for warfare crimes, however to lambast the Safety Council as an basically ineffective physique that, due to its design, had failed for many years to uphold peace all over the world.
“The place is the safety that the Safety Council is meant to be assured?” he requested incredulously.
The veto energy Russia enjoys as one of many 5 everlasting members of the 15-member Safety Council has enabled the nation to hold on its marketing campaign of violence and mass demise in Ukraine with out worry of worldwide intervention, Zelensky stated.
He known as for the Safety Council to both be instantly reformed to make sure fairer international illustration and for Russia’s veto to be eliminated, or for the physique to be dissolved altogether.
“Are you prepared to shut the UN?” he stated. “Do you assume that the time of worldwide regulation is gone? In case your reply is not any, then it is advisable to act instantly.”
Zelensky supplied to host a world convention in Kyiv in an effort to decide methods to reform the worldwide safety system in order to forestall future violence elsewhere on this planet.
“We should do every little thing in our energy to go on to the subsequent era an efficient UN with the power to reply preventively to safety challenges,” he stated.
