Parubiy urges Guterres to deprive Russia of veto right at UN Security Council

10:34, 10.07.2017 1 min read

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, Andriy Parubiy has called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to consider the question of depriving Russia of its veto right at the UN Security Council.

"I've called the UN to deprive Russia of its veto right at the UN Security Council. The aggressor has no right to decide at the UN on the state it has attacked," he wrote on Twitter on Sunday evening.

At their meeting in Kyiv on Sunday, July 9, Parubiy and Guterres discussed, among other things, the humanitarian situation in Donbas and Crimea. The Ukrainian parliament speaker thanked the UN Secretary General for the humanitarian assistance provided to Ukraine.