Guterres also complained that “the multilateral system” is currently under more pressure than it has ever been since the UN was founded in 1945. The tensions between the “great powers” have “reached the highest point”.
In April, Russia holds the rotating presidency of the United Nations’ most powerful body for a month. Lavrov traveled to New York for Monday’s meeting. The session was devoted to the theme of “Defending the Principles” of the UN.
In a note sent in advance to Security Council members, Russia, referring to the US, criticized the “unipolar world order” that emerged after the end of the Cold War and which threatens the “effectiveness and stability of the United Nations system”. However, a shift is taking place in which the “unipolar order is reaching its limits and rapidly losing strength as a new multipolar system emerges.”
The EU Ambassador to the UN, Olof Skoog, described it as “cynical” that Russia presented itself as a defender of the United Nations Charter and multilateralism. “Nothing is further from the truth,” the diplomat told journalists.
