: The Security Council might have been ineffective in Ukraine, but the United Nations hasn’t #IndiaNEWS A clearly anguished Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on April 5 castigated the United

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The Security Council might have been ineffective in Ukraine, but the United Nations hasn’t #IndiaNEWS
A clearly anguished Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on April 5 castigated the United Nations Security Council members for their inaction on alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine: “Are you ready to close the UN? Do you think that the time of international law is gone?� We asked Thomas G Weiss, a veteran scholar with expertise in the politics of the United Nations, to discuss the historic role of the Security Council and what its failure to stop the carnage in Ukraine means over the long term.What did you think when you heard Zelenskyy’s questions?I was impressed by his honesty. There is a saying in Washington that a gaffe is when the truth is spoken inadvertently. Well, he was not speaking it inadvertently. He was speaking openly and directly. He was speaking truth to power in that instance. The UN Charter has been violated many times, but this really was an egregious violation by a single country, Russia.However, we all know the shortcomings of exaggeration. The number of times that, as Mark Twain would have said, the UN’s death has been prematurely declared are numerous. But this inaction really is a black eye for the UN that is in the news, day in and day out. It is going to be...Read more

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