The diplomatic fight against Russia will continue in 2023. There is hope that Ukraine will be able to squeeze through several important decisions on the occupiers.
About thisChannel 24Alexander Solontai, director of practical policy programs at the Institute of Political Education, said. According to him, it is obvious that in 2023 Ukraine will try to exclude Russia from the UN Security Council. The aggressor country has nothing to do there.
Ukraine would like the main diplomatic battle in 2023 to be for the exclusion of Russia from the UN Security Council. Also for the reform of international and global institutions,” Solontai noted.
There is another important political goal of Ukraine
Solontai recalled that in 2022 Ukraine managed to oust Russia from the Council of Europe after 26 years of membership. Georgia and other states have been talking about this for a long time, and this year Kyiv was able to achieve this result.
If at the level of the Council of Europe it was possible to clear Russia, then the main diplomatic battle for 2023 should be the cleansing of the UN Security Council and other structures of the UN itself from Russia. However, it is important to work on another equally important political goal.
At the European level, the main event of 2023 should be NATO enlargement. To make NATO closer to Russian borders. So that there would be more influence of the entire Eastern European policy and that there would be more help to Ukraine, Solontai believes.
Ukraine demands to throw Russia out of the UN: the main thing
- Russia's membership in the UN Security Council and in the UN as a whole. They believe that Moscow has taken the seat of a permanent member bypassing the procedures defined in the UN Charter.
- Former Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin believes that other world leaders cannot yet take such a step, because they have concerns. However, the positive thing is that the discussion about this has already begun.
- It is interesting that earlier the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, said that Russia's membership in the UN Security Council should be suspended. But this requires a suitable mechanism.
