Deputy Foreign Minister Vershinin presents to the Ukrainian Permanent Representative to the UN why Russia will inherit the USSR
February 18, 2022, 02:18
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Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Vershinin presents to the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN why Russia will inherit the USSR’s seat in the Organization’s Security Council, reports RIA News”.
He noted that such speculations are expected to “an inexperienced distant knowledge of international law audience.”
“Discussing whether Russia is being re-transported to the UN <...> Probably, one can raise the question of whether Ukraine itself has gone through this? “In the future, we are still dealing with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,” Vershinin said.
He clarified that Russia, unlike Ukraine, is a full-fledged exporter-continuer of the Soviet Union.
“Speech, in constitutional cases, is only about the use of the name of the state. And Ukraine has just become a customs successor, that is, it is a new state entity,” Vershinin explained.
Formerly Ukrainian Permanent Representative to the UN Serhiy Kislitsa declaredthat “I have not seen” the decision to get Russia in the Security Council.
Russia took the place of the Soviet Union in the UN Security Council as the successor state of the USSR on December 24, 1991. Russian President Boris Yeltsin sent a letter of notification to UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar on the conclusion of members in the UN and assured that all obligations and the Agreement within the UN were observed. At the moment, since February 2022, Russia has been the chairman of the Security Council.