The first deputy speaker of the The Verkhovna Rada, the heads of the Comities and the heads of the parliamentary delegations of Ukraine in international institutions turned in an open letter to the cult American professor Timothy D. Snyder

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Published on 31 August 2022, at 13:43

The first deputy speaker of the The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Korniienko, the heads of the Comities and the heads of the parliamentary delegations of Ukraine in international institutions turned in an open letter to the cult American professor Timothy D. Snyder. The open letter addressed a request to support the research in the scientific circles on the illegality of Russian occupation of the USSR’s place in the UN Security Council and the organization itself.

The deputies refer to the likely violation of the UN Charter, which involves accepting a new member into the organization through a vote in the General Assembly, the and the omission of Russia in the UN Charter as a permanent member of the Security Council. The signatories echo that the Soviet Union was officially dissolved and ceased to exist, meaning Russia should have followed the procedure to be indicted to the UN, in the same way as other countries of the former USSR, besides Ukraine and Belarus, which were amongst the founding members of the UN.

The Members of Parliament mentioned their solidarity with a popular petition in Ukraine to the General Secretary of the UN Antonio Guterres. In the fore-mentioned petition, a request for the documents which provide legal grounds for Russia’s UN membership is indicated, and in the absence of such documents, the termination of the fictitious UN membership of the Russian Federation.

In the letter, the parliamentarians called on the scholar for his support:

“Dear Professor Snyder! Due to the UN representatives, for thirty-one years in a row, ignoring the fact of Russia’s illegal presence in the UN – we turn to you with a request to raise this issue in the worldwide expert environment, involving historians, lawyers and diplomats.

We have hope in that the fact of Russia’s fictitious UN membership being publicized should convince UN’s bureaucrats, and finally will rid Russia of the ability to cover its bloody crimes under the UN flag.

We want to see the flag of the UN next to the flag of Ukraine on Zaporizhia NPP.”

Previously, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy addressed Ukraine's Foreign Ministry. The address was with the request to provide the documents and explain the procedure through which the Russian Federation was admitted to the UN Security Council as the so-called ‘successor’ of the USSR, and in case of absence of such information, inquire of it to the UN Secretariat.