Russia has once again abused its right of veto by stopping the UN Security Council from establishing an international tribunal to investigate the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster, and by doing so has implicated itself in the crime, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov has said.
“The international community should stop watching the impunity of the blood drunk criminals. Russia will not be able to hide from responsibility,” Turchynov said when commenting on the Russian veto of the UN Security Council resolution, the NSDC press service reported.
The Russian leadership will have to answer for the terror, murders, and aggression “before god and man,” Turchynov said.
Turchynov said that this was not the first time that Russia abused its veto.
“They also blocked a UN resolution concerning the seizure of Crimea, on the war in Donbas, on the deployment of peacekeeping units for the cessation of hostilities,” he said, noting that yesterday’s veto was “a challenge to mankind and humanity.”
Turchynov is convinced that this should be a reason for amending the UN Charter.
“A country cannot veto a decision which concerns its crimes. Otherwise, there is a complete paralysis and discrediting of the UN Security Council,” he said.
In his opinion, Ukraine and countries whose citizens were killed in the disaster should put forward proposals for relevant changes to the UN Charter.
According to him, the matter of reforming the United Nations “has been long overdue.”
“If the UN Charter is not changed, then this agency will completely lose its credibility and the ability to respond to large-scale and dangerous challenges of our time,” Turchynov summed up.
