"We are waiting for a cheerful month": Russia will head the UN Radbez in April
Moscow representatives can influence the UN Security Council by choosing certain areas as priority or, conversely, less important. Audiences in the Russian Federation can be presented as the news that the Russian Federation has become a "full world leader", the publication stated. Jonathan Watchel, who held the post of US representative in the UN on foreign policy and global communications under the Donald Trump administration, said that "we are waiting for a cheerful month.
" According to him, Russia was given the opportunity to preside in the UN in February, when a large -scale invasion of Ukraine began. And this happens in a year, during the perhaps, the most dangerous stage in the war. "Moscow will manage the Security Council. It's not good," he said.
The Kremlin has already announced that at a meeting with the UN Security Council, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov will become the head of the UN, who repeatedly repeated false narratives about the goals of war in Ukraine. "Putin will try to use this position to spread propaganda both among the Russian audience and the international," said Rebecca Coffler, a former representative of the American intelligence community.
According to her, the Kremlin will seek to convey the narrative that "Russia is not only a large state, but also that it has high moral grounds. " In fact, the presidency of the Russian Federation will not change the balance of forces in the UN Security Council. "But it is poor optics for the West.
There is a country whose head is written by an arresting order by the International Criminal Court and which heads the main international organization, whose main task is to regulate international relations and maintain the principles of international law," Kafffler said. Jonathan Watchel, like representatives of Ukraine, raises the question of whether the Russian Federation has grounds in general to be among the 15 countries in the UN Security Council.
"The Soviet Union was in reality, which was governed by the central leadership from Moscow. It was a group of 15 republics - from the Baltic, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Therefore, the transformation of the Soviet Union into the Russian Federation . . . is problematic because there are other 15 independent countries Union, "he explained. Wotchel believes that these independent countries can raise legal issues, because Moscow no longer represents them.