Kyiv calls on UN to quicken its response to conflicts
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Sergiy Kyslytsya said at a meeting of the UN Security Council on July 19 that the main UN institutions should respond to conflicts in the world in a timely manner, aiming to localize them and prevent the growth of violence and human rights violations, Ukrinform reports.
Kyslytsya recalled that in 1994 the UN was unable to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. "In the issues of preventing conflicts and the increase of the number of human rights violations, the speed of the UN response is critical," the representative of Ukraine said during the debate on peace and security in Africa.
"Twenty years later, in the issue of Ukraine, the United Nations, the Security Council and the Secretary General did nothing to stop the occupation of the Crimea and the military aggression of Russia," Kyslytsya said.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Andriy Parubiy urged that the delegation of Russia to the UN Security Council be deprived of the right of veto in matters concerning Ukraine.