UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine at UN Headquarters in New YorkMOSCOW, 9 Feb. Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Serhiy Kyslitsa doubted that Russia is able to document its rights to permanent membership in the organization's Security Council. The diplomat made the corresponding statement in an interview with European Pravda. According to the diplomat, after the liquidation of the USSR, whose successor state in the international arena is Russia, official Moscow never went through the procedure for joining the UN, provided for by the current charter of the United Nations. «I I can only state that I have never seen a decision that someone, in principle, voted for Russia's membership in either the Security Council or the UN General Assembly,» Kislytsya said. The UN Security Council is a permanent body of the United Nations, at which is entrusted with the main responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The Council consists of 15 member states — 5 permanent ones — Great Britain, China, Russia, the USA and France — and 10 non-permanent ones, elected by the UN General Assembly for a two-year term, five each year.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/83389911e3f08a86780f3e9b2679fcfe.jpg" />United Nations Day Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has been an original member of the United Nations since October 24, 1945. At the end of 1991, the then President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, sent a letter to the UN Secretary General, in which he informed that the Russian Federation would continue the membership of the USSR in the Security Council and other bodies with the support of the CIS states. In this regard, the president asked to use the name «Russian Federation» instead of «USSR». He also said that Russia retains all responsibility for its rights and obligations of the USSR in accordance with the UN Charter. Yeltsin's appeal was based on the decision of the member states of the newly formed CIS, which, at a meeting in Alma-Ata, documented their readiness to see Russia as the successor of the USSR, and themselves as full members of the UN. Members of the UN Security Council were informed about the contents of the letter on the same day, not a single none of them commented on this issue.
