Zelensky calls on UN Security Council to expel Russia, or disband

Zelensky calls on UN Security Council to expel Russia, or disband

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded that Russia be expelled from the UN Security Council. If the body fails to do this, he said that it should be dissolved.

Had the council taken action to deliver effective responses to the conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen, he added, “tyranny would have ceased to exist and peace would have prevailed.”

“It is time to transform the UN system,” Zelensky told council members via video link on Tuesday.

“The UN system must be reformed immediately so the veto isn’t the right to die. There can be no more exceptions or privileges,” Zelensky said, referring to the power of veto that Russia wields as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council and has used to block resolutions on the conflict in Ukraine.

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