Ukraine said that Russia had no veto power at the UN after the collapse of the USSR
The UN Charter states that the Soviet Union, not the Russian Federation, has the right of veto.
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This was stated in an interview with the Kiev magazine “Correspondent” by Advisor to the Ukrainian Permanent Representative to the UN Alexander Matsuka, who recalled that when the UN was created, Ukraine became one of the founding states of the UN, and “the contribution of Ukraine and Belarus to the victory was officially recognized in 1945 at the Yalta Conference "
“But there was an agreement between large states that they would receive exclusive rights. At that time, there was logic in this - France and Great Britain then owned half the world. And the idea of the veto initially arose as a method of containment, because no one trusted anyone. But if we talk about legal succession, then the UN Charter states that the right of veto extends to the USSR, and not to Russia,” the diplomat said.
“So, Ukraine can claim its own rights to the right of veto?” the publication’s journalist asked hopefully.
“When the USSR collapsed, agreements arose between 15 republics - the so-called zero option,” Matsuka recalled. – According to him, our debts were written off, and Russia became the legal successor of the USSR. I think that many countries in the world at that moment were very worried about what would happen to the nuclear potential of the USSR, so everyone agreed that Russia would be the successor.”
It is worth saying that representatives of the Ukrainian authorities often remember Ukraine as the founding state of the UN, but at the same time they bashfully keep silent about the fact that the monument to Dmitry Manuilsky, who signed the document on the creation of the UN on behalf of the Ukrainian SSR, stood in the center of Kiev. was destroyed immediately after the victory of the new government, and long before the adoption of the odious decommunization law.
See also: Klimkin dreams of depriving Russia veto rights in the UN Security Council.
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