Russia has blocked the renewal of a UN panel monitoring sanctions against North Korea, weeks after the body said it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang.
The move was met with a flurry of criticism, including by Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, who took to social media to call the veto “a guilty plea” amid allegations that Pyongyang is aiding Moscow in its war against Kyiv.
The United States called the veto by Russia a “self-interested effort to bury the panel’s reporting on its own collusion” with North Korea.
Moscow’s veto at the security council does not remove the sanctions on North Korea, but spells the end for the group monitoring their implementation – and myriad alleged violations. The panel’s mandate expires at the end of April.
Imagine going from world super power to vasal state of North Korea, because you’re running out of munitions.
Nah, this serves their own purposes. More chaos is more things to worry about and spend resources on for their enemies.
Remove those russian cunts from the UN already.
If they end their degenerate war against Ukraine and end Putins dictatorship they can be welcomed again but at the moment they should get the mushroom treatment: Kept in the dark and fed shit.
thats not what the UN is, we need these nations in the UN even if they are pursuing offensive goals
nobody needs russia in the UN, not at the moment.
I think the point is lost then, and over time if we follow this practice there won’t be a body called the UN, just countries
I think the point is lost then, and over time if we follow this practice there won’t be a body called the UN, just countries
Or we improve the whole system and change what does not work. If you act contrary to international law and get the rest of the UN agrees to that in a democratic vote, why not get rid of those russian criminals or at least let them loose their right to veto anything. At the moment the UN is impotent because of those fuckers.
Take away their veto, it belongs to the Soviet Union, which they are not. Give it to Ukraine while you’re at it, they have roughly as much claim to it.
The Kazakh SSR was the last Soviet state. You could argue the vote should go to Kazakhstan.
They’d be very stupid to not veto an investigation into themselves.
So they are trying to cover up their dirty business by vetoing this. It’s not a secret of everyone sees what you’re doing.
This shit is like watching Drax claiming to be invisible…
If you can veto actions related to investigating your own country, that seems like a failure of the rules put in place. Why wouldn’t someone do that?
Apply laws that allow the removal of votes of those affected by such things. This should be an obvious decision. At the point it can be abused, the system has already completely failed since it’s a vote anyway.
The UN is a complete joke. It’s a damn circus pretending to be civility.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russia has blocked the renewal of a UN panel monitoring sanctions against North Korea, weeks after the body said it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang.
The move was met with a flurry of criticism, including by Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, who took to social media to call the veto “a guilty plea” amid allegations that Pyongyang is aiding Moscow in its war against Kyiv.
Moscow’s veto at the security council does not remove the sanctions on North Korea, but spells the end for the group monitoring their implementation – and myriad alleged violations.
Russia had never previously tried to block the work of the panel of experts, which had been renewed annually by the UN security council for 14 years and reflected global opposition to North Korea’s expanding nuclear weapon programme.
Russia’s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the council before the vote that western nations were trying to “strangle” North Korea and that sanctions are losing their “relevance” and “detached from reality” in preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the country.
He said Russia’s veto will embolden North Korea to continue jeopardising global security through development “of long-range ballistic missiles and sanctions evasion efforts”.
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