Russia has blocked the renewal of a UN panel monitoring sanctions against North Korea, weeks after the body said it was investigating reports of arms transfers between Moscow and Pyongyang.

The move was met with a flurry of criticism, including by Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, who took to social media to call the veto “a guilty plea” amid allegations that Pyongyang is aiding Moscow in its war against Kyiv.

The United States called the veto by Russia a “self-interested effort to bury the panel’s reporting on its own collusion” with North Korea.

Moscow’s veto at the security council does not remove the sanctions on North Korea, but spells the end for the group monitoring their implementation – and myriad alleged violations. The panel’s mandate expires at the end of April.

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  • avater@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Remove those russian cunts from the UN already.

    If they end their degenerate war against Ukraine and end Putins dictatorship they can be welcomed again but at the moment they should get the mushroom treatment: Kept in the dark and fed shit.

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      3 months ago

      thats not what the UN is, we need these nations in the UN even if they are pursuing offensive goals

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          I think the point is lost then, and over time if we follow this practice there won’t be a body called the UN, just countries

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            3 months ago

            I think the point is lost then, and over time if we follow this practice there won’t be a body called the UN, just countries

            Or we improve the whole system and change what does not work. If you act contrary to international law and get the rest of the UN agrees to that in a democratic vote, why not get rid of those russian criminals or at least let them loose their right to veto anything. At the moment the UN is impotent because of those fuckers.