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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its Western allies on the Security Council insisted Wednesday that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had the right to investigate how Russia used Iranian drones to target civilians and force plants in Ukraine.
They rejected Moscow’s argument that the UN leader violates the UN Charter.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, who convened the council meeting, argued that only the Security Council can order an investigation. He cited Article One Hundred of the Charter, which states that the Secretary-General “shall neither seek nor accept orders from any government or any authority external to the organization. “
U. S. Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood called Russia’s claim “simply mind-boggling” and “to divert attention from its own heinous misdeeds in Ukraine. “
French Ambassador Nicolas De Rivière accused Russia of violating the UN Charter “and trampling on its principles by invading its neighbor and seeking to annex its territories. “
Britain’s deputy ambassador, James Kariuki, called him “another through Russia to divert attention from his crimes in Ukraine and Iran and Russia’s failure to meet their foreign obligations. “
Western envoys said the Security Council is passing through Russia, which is involved in a number of activities within the council.
Russia on Tuesday called for closed-door consultations on its baseless accusations that Ukraine is preparing a dirty bomb. He convened Wednesday’s assembly to verify and salvage the investigation into his alleged use of Iranian drones. And he called an assembly Thursday over his claim that secret U. S. labs are not being held in the U. S. U. S. military officials in Ukraine were engaged in biological warfare, a rate denied by the U. S. The U. S. and Ukraine are in the U. S. and
In a letter to the Security Council last Wednesday, Ukrainian Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya accused Iran of violating a council ban on the movement of drones capable of flying 300 kilometers (about 185 miles).
The provision component of Security Council Resolution 2231, which approved the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six key nations (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) aimed to curtail Tehran’s nuclear activities and prevent the country from reaching a critical point. Nuclear power plant. weapon.
On Wednesday, Iranian Ambassador Amir Saeid Irakani reiterated his country’s rejection of the “totally baseless accusations. “He insisted that since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Iran has maintained “a position of active neutrality” and “has never fired at parties. “
Nebenzia told a council assembly on Friday that the drones were Russian, not Iranian, and warned that an investigation would seriously affect relations between Russia and the United Nations.
This week, he asked the UN legal department to state whether launching an investigation in reaction to several countries and not the entire Security Council would violate Article One Hundred of the UN Charter and the provisions of Resolution 2231.
At a briefing for the council on Wednesday, U. N. legal adviser Miguel de Serpa Soares did not directly answer Russia’s question, but said it was “quite natural” that the 193 U. N. member countries “want to exert as much influence as possible on the organization’s activities. “.
Most of the time, he said, he and Guterres are contacted through ambassadors seeking to advance their governments’ positions.
“All this is to be expected; and I don’t think it’s argued here that such activities are somehow incompatible with Article 100. . . ,” Serpa Soares said.
As for solution 2231, he said, a 2016 council note on provisions and procedures asks the secretary-general to appoint a security affairs division, which has reports ready for the council every six months on its implementation.
He said the note “anticipates that the report will include conclusions and recommendations,” and in the thirteen reports to date, the secretary-general has sought to “express his perspectives on the progress applicable to Array. . . and draw attention to areas of concern. “
“In the absence of additional directives from the Security Council,” Serpa Soares said, “the Secretary-General will continue to prepare those reports in the form they have been prepared so far. “
Wood, the deputy U. N. ambassador, noted that Russia helped negotiate and supported the 2231 solution and said there were “many precedents” in previous reports submitted through the secretary-general to the Security Council. security for independent investigations through the Secretariat, which he heads.
He cited a 2017 report in which the UN leader reported on an investigation into allegations that Yemen’s Houthi rebels had used Iranian-supplied ballistic missiles in attacks on Saudi Arabia. October 2021 to read about the deminers of six ballistic missiles connected to the Houthi attacks. And in 2021, the UN team also traveled to Israel to read about Iranian drones that had infiltrated its airspace, Wood said.
Russia’s Nebenzia insisted that all such investigations are contrary to the UN Charter.
“We are grateful to our Western colleagues for the exhaustive list of violations through the UN Secretariat of Article One Hundred of the UN Charter,” he said.
Asked what will happen if the secretary-general investigates downed drones in Ukraine, Nebenzia said Moscow does not threaten to withdraw its cooperation with the UN if that happens.
“But of course we will cooperate in light of the Secretariat’s reaction to our valid concerns,” he said.