Russia to call up UN Security Council meeting if Kiev continues military crackdown. If Kiev does not immediately stop military operations against popular protest, Russia will call for an urgent UNSC meeting and in the worst case scenario reserves the right to deploy armed forces to stop bloodshed, UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said. “If we will continue to see what we witnessed today, if the use of force against the protest movement in the east and south-east of Ukraine will continue, we will convene an emergency meeting of the Security Council,” he said, adding though that historically the UNSC was unable to reach a consensus on a number of issues. Churkin reminded that Russia does not feel isolated at the UN on the Ukrainian crisis. “Even in the Ukrainian situation during a vote on the resolution in the General Assembly, nearly half of UN members refused to support this resolution.” In a worst case scenario – if the violence in Ukraine continues – Russia reserved the right to deploy armed forces to stop the bloodshed, Churkin stated, adding that the main objective now is to de-escalate tensions. “In the worst-case scenario we will remember the decision of the Federation Council,” Churkin said. “We have such a capacity in our hands, but of course we don’t want that.” “I called the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and suggested to him to condemn, in a public statement which, I hope, he will make, the use of the armed forces against political opposition in the east of the country,” Churkin said. “We will look and see, whether Ban Ki-moon will be able to make such a statement.” “The US is at a crossroads,” he said. “The US has already understood that they are unable to command the entire world, but they cannot translate it into another way of behavior. They feel uncomfortable when they see another pole of power,” such as Russia or China, Churkin added. In the Ukrainian case, the UN envoy continued, “US wants not only to distance Ukraine from Russia, but also to “hang Ukraine on the EU.” The reason Churkin says is simple, Washington wants the EU become an “amorphous structure” that will “appear incapable of operating as a competitor of the USA on the world scene.” rt/news/154716-churkin-ukraine-russia-usa/
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:24:30 +0000
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