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UN is Victim to Global Crisis, But Still Embodies Multilateralism - Nebenzia

© AP Photo / John MinchilloVassily Nebenzia, permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations, speaks during a meeting of the UN Security Council, Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at United Nations headquarters.
Vassily Nebenzia, permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations, speaks during a meeting of the UN Security Council, Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. - Sputnik International, 1920, 05.05.2023
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UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) Lenka White - The UN takes a loss from the current geopolitical crisis, but it undoubtedly represents individual countries worldwide through its Charter and embodies multilateralism, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia told Sputnik.
"The UN is to some extent a victim of the kind of global crisis in international relations that we are witnessing today. But the fact that we live in a UN-centric model of the world, and the UN, through its Charter, embodies this multilateralism, is something we do not doubt," Nebenzia said.
Nebenzia recalled the words of former French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabious who said that the world we have today has more and more multipolarity, but less and less multilateralism.
The ambassador also said there is "false multilateralism" in which countries create non-inclusive formats, make decisions, and then try to apply them universally onto everyone.
The United Nations should be saved regardless of how it got altered since the 1990s, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Nebenzia said.
"Earlier, in the 1990s, it seems to me, there was more multilateralism in the sense that the process of agreeing on decisions was of a collective nature. Now the situation has changed. There are attempts to blur the interstate foundations of the UN - because the UN is an interstate organization, not an NGO," Nebenzia said. "But I think that no matter the changes, we must preserve the organization."
Russia took over the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of April.
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019 at United Nations headquarters.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 12.01.2023
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