Baltic States support Ukraine's call against Russia's presidency of UN Security Council

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania jointly opposed the Russian presidency of the UN Security Council, which begins on 1 April.

Source: European Pravda with reference to Ukrinform; Rein Tammsaar, Estonia's Permanent Representative to the UN, at a Security Council meeting on Friday, reading out a joint statement from the three Baltic States.

In his speech, Tammsaar noted that a country ruled by a war criminal prosecuted by the International Criminal Court cannot preside over the body responsible for world peace and security.

"Isn't it telling that tomorrow, on the anniversary of the Bucha massacre, Russia will preside over the Security Council? This is shameful, humiliating and dangerous for the credibility of this body and its effective functioning," he stressed.

The Estonian diplomat added that a country waging an aggressive war against its neighbour, committing the most horrific atrocities, threatening the world with nuclear weapons and whose leader is a war criminal, against whom the ICC has issued an arrest warrant, cannot run the Security Council.

"The responsible members of this body must resist Russia's attempts to turn the main venue for international diplomacy into a laughingstock and a platform for disinformation," he stressed.

The presidency of the UN Security Council changes on a rotating basis every month, and each subsequent country is elected in the order of the English alphabet among the current composition of the body.

Earlier this week, Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, called Russia's presidency of the UN Security Council a "bad joke" because it is waging a colonial war and its leader is a war criminal wanted by the ICC for child abduction.

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