Abolition of veto power in UN impossible — Lavrov
Russian Politics & Diplomacy
February 16, 16:17
The Russian foreign minister added that it will turn the UN into "a useless structure, just like the League of Nations, which will only additionally fuel the confrontation"
MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. The abolition of the veto power in the UN is impossible, because that would render the organization useless, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during the "Euromaidan: Ukraine’s lost decade" conference.
"It is impossible to abolish the veto power," Lavrov said, talking about the UN reform. "Because then the UN will turn into a useless structure, just like the League of Nations, which will only additionally fuel the confrontation."
"The [UN] reform is a lengthy process, clearly, because it has to reflect some common current understanding of the tectonic changes that are happening in the world within the context of multipolarity processes," Lavrov added.