Zelenskiy says Russian UN Security Council presidency is absurd

2/4/2023 6:48

        Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday said it was absurd Russia had assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council,
        adding this showed the institution's "total bankruptcy".
        
        On Saturday Russia took over the presidency of the U.N.'s top security body, which rotates every month. The last time Moscow held the post was in February 2022, when its troops launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
        
        "Unfortunately, we ... have some obviously absurd and destructive news," Zelenskiy said in an evening video address, adding that Russian shelling had killed a five-month-old boy on Friday.
        
        "And at the same time Russia is chairing the U.N. Security Council. It's hard to imagine anything that proves more the total bankruptcy of such institutions," he said.
        
        The Kremlin said on Friday it planned to "exercise all its rights" in the role.