By KYIV. Dec 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine calls on the UN member states to restore the application of the Charter in the issue of the legitimacy of Russia’s stay in the UN, deprive Russia of the status of a permanent member of the UN Security Council and expel it from the UN as a whole, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry (MFA) has said.
"The question of Russia’s fate in the United Nations should be resolved in the general context of its responsibility for gross violations of the norms and principles of international law as well as for crimes committed on the territory of Ukraine, in particular, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as the crime of genocide," the MFA said in the statement.
The Foreign Ministry said it is only a matter of time before Russia’s actions discredit and destroy the entire UN system.
"Ukraine calls on the member states of the UN to resume the application of the UN Charter in the context of the legitimacy of the Russian Federation’s presence in the UN, to deprive the Russian Federation of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to exclude it from the UN as a whole," the ministry said.
