United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council will not improve or become more equitable if it is expanded.

There's also the question of whether making the Security Council tent bigger would do anything to alleviate its divisions.

Modifications to the Security Council would require an amendment to the U.N. Charter.

For U.N. skeptics, Russia's time in the spotlight is one more talking point for why the entire organization could use a massive overhaul or perhaps even a downsizing.

Russian journalists were set to attend the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York City on Monday, along with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

One expert told Newsweek that China could be the ultimate litmus test for whether Russia remains on the U.N. Security Council.

A Russian official who has objected to Zelensky's virtual U.N. remarks criticized the Ukrainian president for not visiting in person during his U.S. trip.

The People's Republic of China has been a U.N. member state for just over half a century.

If Russian President Vladimir Putin orders the first use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the West has few good ways to deter him from using more of them. But there are some options.

"Russia initiated a special military operation, miscalculated its strength, and for eight straight months can't win," a Russian state TV guest said.

The destructiveness of the war, "which was fought only in Ukraine before, now…extends to the Baltic Sea," Hu Xijin wrote in China's Global Times newspaper.

"The United States is ready to pursue critical arms control measures. A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought," Biden said on Wednesday.

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield has a wide-ranging agenda for the United Nations' top table in May, including the further isolation of Russia.

The more we allow Russia to participate as an equal partner in important global institutions, the more we degrade and devalue them and the more we are complicit in Russia's crimes.

China's representative to the UN didn't assign blame for the deaths in Bucha, but hinted at Beijing's support for an investigation into the incident.

"Now the world can see what the Russian military did in Bucha while keeping the city under their occupation," Zelensky told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

"There are satellite images. We can conduct a full and transparent investigation," the Ukrainian president said in an address to the United Nations Security Council.

Zelensky said that the one thing that sets the Russian military apart from ISIS is that one is a member of the United Nations Security Council.

While China and Russia voted in favor of the draft introduced on Wednesday, the remaining 13 UN Security Council members abstained.

"Why has the Russian Federation decided to cosplay the Nazi Third Reich by attacking the peaceful neighboring state?" asked Ukrainian UN Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the attack "nuclear terrorism" committed by the Russians.

Sergiy Kyslytsya echoed President Volodymyr Zelensky's claims that Russia's Thursday attack on a nuclear power plant was an act of "nuclear terrorism."

The U.N. is only as effective as the ability of those states to cooperate in pursuit of a common objective.

Russia and India voted against a U.N. measure led by Ireland and Niger that would have named climate change as an international security threat.

A massive scorched-earth campaign is underway in northwest Myanmar. Reports of massacres and images of smoke billowing from houses are shocking social media.

"Each new advancement of the DPRK's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs destabilizes the region and threatens international peace and security," the ambassador said in a statement.

The presidents seek to find a solution for the starvation crisis without military force.

The Russian embassy in Washington, DC, criticized U.S. military claims its troops were in Syria "under international law."

Syria has now entered its 11th year of internal conflict, marking one of the most protracted and gruesome conflicts in history.

The Trump administration effectuated a total sea change on Israel, its adversaries and the adversaries of America.