Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae, called undemocratic the veto power granted to five permanent members of the UN Security Council, as the General Assembly voted on Tuesday to submit the world’s most powerful power to the closer evaluation.
The General Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution that would force one of the five permanent members of the Council with veto power – Russia, the United States, China, France and the United Kingdom – to appear before representatives of 193 countries to give -reasonable. its decision to use it.
This resolution does not remove the Security Council’s controversial veto right. But while Russia threatens to continue to use him to prevent any action to thwart its war with Ukraine, Rae said the historic General Assembly vote underscores that the world will monitor permanent Council members more carefully.
This right of veto is just as anachronistic as it is undemocraticsaid Mr. Rae, explaining Canada’s support for the General Assembly resolution.
The unfinished resolution is already being requested by the General Assembly conduct a debate on the situation who vetoed the Security Council within 10 working days and the country that used it was among the first to speak.
Representatives from Russia and Belarus spoke out against the resolution, but their opposition was opposed by a group of about 100 countries, led by small Liechtenstein, which also includes Canada, who sponsored the motion.
From the conference hall, Mr. Rae strongly condemned the failed United Nations system that allows what he described asshameful and unlawful act of aggression of Russia against Ukraine.
The hegemony of the Security Council in question
The Canadian ambassador said the recent conflict in Ukraine came at a time when the world is in dire need of a Security Council.
We are witnessing the destruction of cities. We are witnessing the killing of women and children. We see the destruction of a nation’s entire infrastructure – and we also see a nation resisting. The Security Council may not be able to act. It does not deprive us of the ability to actsaid Mr. Rae.
Canadian ambassadors and world diplomats chat in New York as Russian bombs continue to hit Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol, large parts of which have turned to rubble in a war that killed the thousands of Ukrainian civilians and forced millions of people to flee their homes.
The use of the veto and the threat to use it in situations where heinous crimes are being committed in Syria and Myanmar, and in Mariupol, for example, or in situations where a permanent member of the Security Council has launched of a war of aggression against another. The UN Member State, as the Russian Federation currently does in Ukraine, is not only embarrassing, but also contrary to obligations under the UN Charter and international law.said Mr. Rae.
Source: Radio-Canada
