United Nations logo. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 20Attempts by the West to expel Russia from the UN and revoke the powers of Russian representatives are obviously futile, RIA Novosti was told in the Russian Foreign Ministry. about the fact that the West may try to revoke the powers in the UN from representatives of the Russian authorities. «Regarding the possible attempts of our Western partners to exclude Russia from the United Nations, including by implementing the idea of revoking the credentials of the Russian permanent representative to the UN, it has been repeatedly noted that such a scenario is obviously unrealizable,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “The fact is that only the UN General Assembly can deprive the Russian Federation of its membership in the Organization on the recommendation of the Security Council, of which our country is a permanent member with the right of veto. case with Ros This procedure is enshrined in Article 6 of the UN Charter, which is publicly available on the official website of the UN,» the Foreign Ministry explained.The Russian Federation distributed a letter in the UN Security Council about Kyiv's provocations against ZAEST. They emphasized that «there is no other legal way to implement such a plan.» «Attempts to create such mechanisms will entail the need to make appropriate changes to the charter of the organization,» the Russian Foreign Ministry said. They recalled that «for this it is necessary that two-thirds of the members of the UN General Assembly vote for them.» «Then the amendments must be ratified by two-thirds of the member states, including, again, all the permanent members of the Security Council,» the Russian department added. to the general secretary of the organization, and not to this or that Western country,» the Russian Foreign Ministry noted. At the same time, the ministry stressed that «the powers of the permanent representative are terminated by revocable letters, which are also signed by the head of the country and presented before the diplomat leaves for his homeland.» «Any other scenarios on this topic circulating in the media are nothing more than speculations divorced from reality,» the Russian Foreign Ministry concluded, adding that «most Western capitals are well aware of this.»The UN Secretary General did not rule out a food crisis without Russian fertilizers
