A newly passed resolution demanding Russia pay reparations for the war in Ukraine threatens the existence of the United Nations, according to a top Kremlin official.
"It looks like the beginning of the United Nations agony as a key international institution for reconciliation," Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, who held the presidency for a term, wrote on social media."The end will be painful for the entire international community. We will do without such a ‘united nations’ organization."
"Naturally, the organizers of this process are trying to complete the robbery of our gold and foreign exchange reserves, which were completely illegally blocked,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. “This is a formalization of this robbery using the United Nations platform.
The reparations resolution passed with 94 votes in favor. Russia mustered just 14 votes against the proposal, and another 73 countries abstained. Ukrainian officials emphasized that Moscow has backed multiple reparations initiatives, including after Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and following World War II.
Russian Ambassador to the U.N. Vassily Nebenzia maintained that the reparations resolution was just a maneuver to use Russian government funds to pay for Western military aid to Ukraine.
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