Posted on 11/16/2022 6:42:09 AM PST by Twotone
A newly passed resolution demanding Russia pay reparations for the war in Ukraine threatens the existence of the United Nations, according to a top Kremlin official.
"It looks like the beginning of the United Nations agony as a key international institution for reconciliation," Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, who held the presidency for a term, wrote on social media. "The end will be painful for the entire international community. We will do without such a ‘united nations’ organization."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the U.N. General Assembly’s support for “establishing an international mechanism for compensation for damage” as a step toward fulfilling one of the pillars of Zelensky’s preferred “peace formula.” Russian officials have dismissed Zelensky’s demands as “unrealistic,” but Kremlin officials fear that Western powers will invoke the U.N. resolution as a basis for giving frozen Russian Central Bank reserves to Ukraine.
"Naturally, the organizers of this process are trying to complete the robbery of our gold and foreign exchange reserves, which were completely illegally blocked,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. “This is a formalization of this robbery using the United Nations platform.”
UKRAINE: ‘RUSSIA WANTS A PAUSE TO REPLENISH ITS FORCES’
Russia lost access to about $300 billion in foreign currency reserves, about half of the Russian Central Bank’s stockpile, in February, when the United States and allied governments froze the bank's overseas assets in retaliation for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to overthrow the Zelensky government.
“The creation of an international compensation mechanism … will make it possible to compensate all the losses caused by the Russian war, moreover at the expense of Russian assets,” Zelensky said Monday evening without explicit reference to the Russian Central Bank reserves.
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Works for me.
ditto
Tritto!
Let’s see how BRICS responds to this.
Something that I can agree with? Amazing!
Sounds like the president of the John Birch society.
Damn! Just like that I’m a putin puppet! 🤣👍
Woody Wilson’s “League of Nations” did for similar reasons.
That is a great idea!
Klaus Schwab and his WEF will takeover ? Klaus only wants a few trillion dollars for his Genocide , he’ll exterminate have the planet’s population in a few years , sounds like Hitler again doesn’t it
What a Great Idea!
Should have been done decades ago!
And that is different from the following in what way:
Frozen assets? Ok. Understandable.
Taking them and redistributing? That's theft and causus belli, even if done under the fig leaf of a 'resolution', imho.
if Russia doesn’t want the consequences of starting a war,
then it shouldn’t have started this war
I am with Russia on this! 100%
Hush, Canadian
Is this history repeating itself: League of Nations reparations on Germany for WW1. Some say this started the path to WW2.
no
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