The European Union confirmed the incompatibility of Russia's actions with the charter of a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

The European Union confirmed the incompatibility of Russia’s actions with the charter of a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

 

The position of the European Union regarding the inadmissibility of a violation of the UN Charter by one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, which was announced by the President of the European Council Charles Michel during a speech from the podium of the UN General Assembly in New York, reflects the position of all countries of the European Union, which are members of the UN.

EU spokesman Peter Stano said this at a briefing in Brussels, the correspondent of Ukrinform reports.

“Charles Michel, as the president of the European Council, spoke on behalf of all the states of the European Union. Since February of this year, and even earlier, after the illegal annexation of Crimea and the destabilization of eastern Ukraine in 2014, Russia has demonstrated that it is not behaving as a responsible member of the international community. And with the latest threats to use nuclear weapons, I think Russia has completely discredited itself as a permanent member of the UN Security Council,” Stano said.

He reminded that only 5 countries are among the permanent members of the UN Security Council. For each of them, this is a privilege that allows them to do everything possible to comply with the UN Charter and so that peace, not war, prevails in the world.

At the same time, the EU spokesman emphasized that the issue of organizing the work of the UN, including the entry of countries into the UN Security Council, belongs to the internal procedures of the UN itself, of which all the states of the European Union are full members .

As reported, on September 23, during a speech in New York, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, suggested suspending Russia’s membership in the UN Security Council.