Russia complains the world has become unipolar since the end of the Cold War - but if Moscow really wants a more multipolar world the best place to start might be the UN.
had it 15 months ago, when the news broke it had invaded Ukraine, during a live council session its diplomats were chairing. And it now has it again.The UN security council should be dissolved rather than host the obscene spectacle of its aggressor nation presiding over a body whose entire raison d'etre is to preserve global peace and security.He was seen as a bruising silverback of a diplomat in contrast to some of the more softly spoken of his counterparts.
Today at the UN, Mr Lavrov growled his way through what we were promised would be a discussion on a"new multipolar world order based on sovereign equality and self-determination". Russia has driven a cavalry and an entire fleet of carriages through the UN charter with its invasion.But that is not really the point for Mr Lavrov.
If Moscow really wants a more multipolar world the best place to start might be the UN - and yet it has acted with wanton disregard for its principles for more than a decade now.
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