Russia is dissatisfied with the way the UK is conducting its United Nations Security Council Presidency after the UK refused to admit one of the speakers to brief the Council at a Russia-organized meeting, the Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy said on Wednesday
UNITED NATIONS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th July, 2023) Russia is dissatisfied with the way the UK is conducting its United Nations Security Council Presidency after the UK refused to admit one of the speakers to brief the Council at a Russia-organized meeting, the Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy said on Wednesday.
"I wish to take this opportunity to voice to friends our principal disagreement with the approach of the presidency," Polyanskiy told the Security Council members. "We propose three briefers ... however, the British presidency single-handedly decided that one of these briefers does not have a place at a meeting of a Security Council, referring to lack of time."
But it was a mistake by the UK Presidency to hold two meetings right after each other, Polyanskiy added.
"We consulted Council members on Russia's proposed briefers, mindful of the very tight timings of the Council this morning and determined not to have to cancel any subsidiary body business by rescheduling," The United Kingdom Deputy Permanent Representative James Kariuki responded. "On that basis and based on the views of other Council members, but we made reasonable compromise proposals - we did not refuse either refreshers proposed nor new briefers."
We offered them a choice to send a written contribution, Kariuki added.
Russia has invited three guests to speak at the UN Security Council meeting, nevertheless, a priest of the Ukrainian church was not admitted to speak at the meeting. After the verbal exchange with the United Kingdom, Russia requested a vote for the priest's participation but did not get enough votes from the Council members to have it approved.
On Wednesday, July 26, two meetings on Ukraine were held in the Security Council during the morning hours. The first one was requested by the Russian Mission to the UN regarding canonical Orthodoxy. The second meeting was externally requested by the Ukrainians in connection with attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure.
