Poland's foreign minister has called for Russia to be expelled from the UN Security Council and from the OSCE regional security forum, saying the organizations are paralyzed while Moscow is part of them amid the war in Ukraine.
Radosław Sikorski was speaking shortly after he walked out of a high-profile OSCE security meeting in Malta in protest at the presence of his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
“When you set up an organization in which consensus is needed for decisions, for it to work, they have to abide by same rules and the same values. And when, just like at the UN, a member with veto power breaks the rules by invading a neighboring country, the organization gets paralyzed,” Sikorski said.
“So I personally believe that Russia should be suspended both in the OSCE and UN Security Council,” he added.
“When you set up an organization in which consensus is needed for decisions, for it to work, they have to abide by same rules and the same values. And when, just like at the UN, a member with veto power breaks the rules by invading a neighboring country, the organization gets paralyzed,” Sikorski said.
“So I personally believe that Russia should be suspended both in the OSCE and UN Security Council,” he added.
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