Ambassadors speak during a Security Council meeting at United Nations Headquarters, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022.
London: There has been talk about whether a country can be removed from permanent membership of the UNSC after it was told to look into the option of ousting Russia from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). According to media reports, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman has said that the UK government is ready to oust Russia as one of the 5 permanent members of the UNSC to attack Ukraine. Russia launched an attack on Ukraine last week and has since taken an aggressive stance towards the West.
Can permanent membership of the UN be withdrawn?
Even though Britain has said that the option of ousting Russia from the permanent membership of the UNSC is also open, but the question is whether it is possible to do so. The United Nations Charter does not mention any mechanism or mechanism for the removal of a permanent member of the Security Council. The word ‘permanent’ in the United Nations Charter simply means that these members will always be part of the Security Council. Let us tell you that the 5 permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, America, China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom are also known as ‘Permanent Five’, ‘Big Five’ and ‘P5’.
What are the powers of the permanent members of UNSC?
Only the five permanent members of the Security Council have been given veto power by international law. By exercising this power, any one member can prevent the passage of any resolution adopted by a majority of the Security Council. ‘Veto’ is the right given to an individual, party or nation to stop a law by itself. The veto gives unlimited power to prevent any decision, not to enforce it. Vito is a Latin word which means ‘I refuse.’ Although there is no mechanism in the UN Charter to remove a permanent member of the UNSC, but a country can certainly be excluded from the United Nations.
Russia intensified its attack on Ukraine, fired missiles at cities
Meanwhile, Russian forces bombed Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv on Tuesday. With this, the Russian army has moved closer to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and Russian tanks and other military vehicles are traveling in a convoy of about 40 miles. Isolated by the Kremlin’s tough economic sanctions, Russian troops attempted to advance to Ukraine’s two largest cities. A video posted online showed explosions in the Soviet-era administrative buildings and residential areas of the region in Kharkiv, which has a population of about 1.5 million.
