![]() Helsinki Commission – it is the best attempt made so far at setting out a legal case for Russia’s removal from the Security Council.Īs Grant’s post is at least in part a reply to a previous post of mine on Leiden Law Blog, I feel compelled to take up the challenge and explain why, despite Grant’s impressively extensive argumentation, I still do not believe that it is legally possible to remove Russia from the Security Council. Although he is not the only one arguing that the Russian Federation’s presence on the Security Council is illegitimate – he can count among his supporters the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which in December 2022 released a statement arguing that Russia has never really been a member of the Security Council, and the U.S. ![]() In a two-part post for this blog, Thomas Grant has argued that it is both possible and desirable to remove the Russian Federation from the UN Security Council (see Part One and Part Two). ![]()
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