Churkin criticized the Deputy foreign Minister of Ukraine for dissemination of absurd insinuations about Russia – TASS

UN 21 Dec. /Offset. TASS Oleg Zelenin/. Russia and Ukraine exchanged Tuesday attacks at a meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the problem of human trafficking in situations of armed conflict. Approval, the Deputy foreign Minister of Ukraine Andriy Oxalis about allegedly committed in the East and in the Crimea, sexual violence, and his attempts to question Russia’s status as a state-founder of the United Nations, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin called absurd insinuations.

In his speech, the representative of Kiev also recalled the resolution on the situation of human rights in Crimea, adopted by the General Assembly on Monday. “It is sad that we are talking about a country that became a member of the organization 25 years ago. As a permanent member of the Security Council, it must comply with the obligations imposed on it by the UN Charter,” said Sorrel.

“the Insinuation made in the statement of the delegation of Ukraine, we reject as inappropriate, unreasonable, sometimes just absurd,” commented his statement, Vitaly Churkin.

the Ukrainian side in the past, tried to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Russia’s membership in the UN Security Council. In November, the Deputy permanent representative of Ukraine Yuriy Vitrenko said that Russia joined the security Council “through unclear and non-transparent procedure”.

Russia holds a seat as a permanent member of the UN security Council as the successor state of the USSR. The Soviet Union was part of the security Council on 24 October 1945, as a founding member of the world organization. As noted on the official website of the United Nations, 24 December 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin “has informed the Secretary-General (of the UN Javier Perez de Cuellar) that the membership of the Soviet Union in the Security Council and all other organs of the United Nations will be continued by the Russian Federation with the support of the 11 member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States”. Ukraine at that time was a member of the CIS.