On Sunday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Kyiv would call for Russia to be stripped of its permanent membership of the UN Security Council, which it sits on with the US, the UK, France and China.
"Tomorrow we will officially express our position. We have a very simple question: Does Russia have the right to remain a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to be in the United Nations at all?" Kuleba said on Sunday
"We have a convincing and reasoned answer - no, it does not," he added.
Kyiv will make the demand 10 months into Moscow's offensive and as Russia's defiant leader Vladimir Putin accused the West of trying to "tear apart" his country.
The five permanent members of the powerful 15-seat Security Council have veto power that can block any resolution.
Speaking at a Ministerial Council of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the central Polish city of Łódź earlier this month, US Ambassador to the organisation, Michael Carpenter, argued that excluding Russia from some major international bodies would be a virtually impossible task.
“There is no mechanism for excluding Russia either from the OSCE or from the UN,” he said.
“I understand [those] who are outraged by Russia’s actions. Let me assure you, I am outraged as well. What Russia is doing is absolutely horrific, it’s barbaric it’s beyond the pale of human decency,” Carpenter added.
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Source: AFP