Russia's Veto on MH17 Tribunal 'Helped Avert' World War

© AFP 2023 / BULENT KILIC This photo taken on July 26, 2014 shows flowers, left by parents of an Australian victim of the crash, laid on a piece of the Malaysia Airlines plane MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabove), in the Donetsk region.
This photo taken on July 26, 2014 shows flowers, left by parents of an Australian victim of the crash, laid on a piece of the Malaysia Airlines plane MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabove), in the Donetsk region. - Sputnik International
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Russia's refusal to support a UN Security Council resolution aimed at creating a tribunal to identify and prosecute those responsible for the MH17 tragedy "helped avert the risk of a major war," American journalist Carla Stea asserted.

The draft statute itself, the implications of acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, the official comments of those who accused Russia of standing in the way of justice, as well as their reaction to Moscow's legitimate concerns and alternative proposals appears to show that those who are trying to push through the resolution do not seem to be motivated by a desire to conduct a thorough investigation and find the real perpetrators.

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The resolution was proposed by Malaysia and backed by Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Ukraine. It was supported by 11 out of the 15 UNSC member states. China, Venezuela and Angola abstained.

Stea maintains that those in favor of creating the MH17 tribunal seem to have "a preconceived agenda." They would fabricate "a bogus case against the East Ukrainians" and convict them using biased and highly politicized accusations. They will then use the proposed resolution in an attempt to justify a US and NATO attack on East Ukraine "to destroy the East Ukrainians' anti-Nazi struggle for dignity."

"This would make it impossible for Russia to avoid direct military involvement, and would constitute a provocation detonating a major war," Stea noted.

For the time being, Russia, according to the journalist, has prevented this scenario from playing out. But those who called the UNSC vote had additional goals in mind.

© AP Photo / KENA BETANCURMembers of UN Security Council vote on a draft resolution for establishing a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the MH17 flight during a Security Council meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York on July 29, 2015.
Members of UN Security Council vote on a draft resolution for establishing a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the MH17 flight during a Security Council meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York on July 29, 2015. - Sputnik International
Members of UN Security Council vote on a draft resolution for establishing a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the MH17 flight during a Security Council meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York on July 29, 2015.

"The Russian veto of the Malaysian draft resolution S/2015/562 prevented a lethal and deliberate miscarriage of justice, and a probable escalation of the crisis in Ukraine, and the vote on this scandalous resolution was forced to embarrass Russia and create the illusion of Russian recalcitrance," the journalist noted.

The latest attempt to adopt a resolution under Chapter VII will not be the last. The West, according to the journalist, is likely to continue to scheme and plan its next move.

"There will be more conniving and barely disguised draft resolutions under Chapter VII to come in the UN Security Council. The target is Russia, and the pathological goal is regime change or world war," Stea wrote in an article titled "Ukraine and the MH17 Crash: Washington's Use of the UN Security Council as an Instrument of Propaganda, 'Regime Change' and War."

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