As Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an impassioned address before the UN Security Council, the Russian ambassador sat scrolling through his phone.
No sooner had the UN Security Council begun a special session into the war in Ukraine, Russia angrily objected – aggrieved by the fact that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky had been invited to speak ahead of member countries.Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, insisted this went against the rules – much to the chagrin of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who had the job of presiding over the meeting.
It was a tense start for what was only Zelensky’s second in-person appearance at the UN, and a rare New York encounter with an aggressor that Ukraine has been at war with for 19 months. “Humankind no longer pins hopes on the UN when it comes to the defence of the sovereign borders of nations,” he said.
While the group has met dozens of times to discuss Ukraine, it has been unable to take any meaningful action because Russia is one of the “P5” permanent veto-wielding members, along with the US, France, Britain and China. Asked about the need for UN reform on Wednesday, Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, who is in New York for the latest UN General Assembly meeting, acknowledged that the current structure “doesn’t reflect the economic and geopolitical configuration that we see in the world today”.
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