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The UN adopts an unprecedented initiative to limit the right of veto

2022-04-29T17:23:28.498Z


DECRYPTION - The five permanent members of the Security Council will in future have to justify their use of this procedure.


Volodymyr Zelensky did not mince his words on April 5 against the UN, this large sick body inherited from the Cold War and terribly powerless when it came to stopping the Russian war in Ukraine.

If the international organization founded in 1945 did not manage to

"prevent Russia from blocking any decision on its own aggression, its own war and to do everything to restore peace",

warned the Ukrainian President by videoconference from Kiev, "

if his current format remains unalterable and if there is simply no solution, then the only solution is to self-dissolve

”.

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The height of absurdity had been reached on 25 February: in the Security Council, Russia, one of the five permanent member states along with the United States, France, China and Great Britain, had brandished its veto against a resolution condemning the launch of its “

special military operation

” the day before against Ukrainian territory.

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Source: lefigaro

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