Analysis: Russia believes tanks trump international law. Smaller countries like Kenya are using the U.N. to push back.
But just two nights previously, during Monday’s emergency meeting, the Security Council listened to Kenya’s ambassador, Martin Kimani, deliverthat resonated with audiences far beyond the usual U.N. observers. Kimani warned the council about the dangers of plunging back into an old, imperial world of domination, and against rulers who redrew maps by force while striving for ethnically homogenous states.
Kimani’s statement mirrored those from other Security Council nonpermanent members, including Albania, Ghana and Ireland, whose ambassadors all argued that violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity is a grave violation of international law and of Russia’s commitments under the U.N. Charter to settle disputes by peaceful means.Story continues below advertisement
If Wednesday’s meeting revealed the hard limits of the Security Council’s power in the world, then Monday’s meeting encapsulated its role as a forum for real debate over the value and meaning of international legal rules — rules that are life or
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