Guess Which Country Is About To Take the Helm of the UN Security Council

Russia’s retaking of the council’s presidency at the same time that it flouts all rules and norms established by the UN since World War II is yet another step in that body’s descent into irrelevancy.

AP/Seth Wenig
The Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, holds up a copy of the UN Charter March 2, 2022. AP/Seth Wenig

As of Saturday, the UN’s top guarantor of peace and security will be presided over by a hostage-taking, war-mongering, nuclear-aggressive country — and that is no April’s fools joke. 

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