The first interview of Volodymyr Yelchenko, Ukraine’s newly appointed permanent representative to the United Nations, raises a number of questions, in particular, regarding both his professionalism and his capability of using Ukraine’s temporary membership in the UN Security Council in 2016-17. For how else can one interpret his following statement: “I would like, immediately on arrival [in New York. – Author], to look my Russian colleague Mr. Churkin in the eye and candidly discuss this very issue. … Without personal communication, without frankness this work can hardly succeed. So far, I have no recipes. First, I need to talk to my Russian colleague. Proceeding from the sentiment that I will hear, we will plan our further work.” This was the ambassador’s answer to a question by an UNIAN reporter: how should we internationally confront the lies, which Russia spins on the tracks of its tanks in Donbas? It appears that the ambassador has neither instructions nor own vision of how the UN tribune could be used to bring Russia to account as an aggressor.
The Day requested Professor Volodymyr VASYLENKO, former authorized representative at the UN International Court, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, to comment on Yelchenko’s interview and share his ideas as to how indeed Ukraine could defend its national interests via the United Nations’ mechanisms. ...
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