US, Russia exchange threats at UN meeting on Crimea crisis; UN chief headed to Moscow, Kiev

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

PUBLISHED: 21:20 EST, 19 March 2014 | UPDATED: 21:20 EST, 19 March 2014

Russia and the United States exchanged threats Wednesday at a tense U.N. Security Council meeting over the Ukraine crisis, with Moscow's envoy warning that the U.S. ambassador's 'insults' are jeopardizing Moscow's willingness to cooperate with Washington on other diplomatic matters.

It was the council's eighth meeting in less than three weeks on Ukraine, a show of determination by Western powers to highlight Russia's diplomatic isolation over the Crimean Peninsula — even if the council is powerless to act because of Moscow's veto power as a permanent council member.

The meeting came as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left for Russia and Ukraine in a bid to seek a diplomatic way out of the crisis. Ban will meet with President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials in Moscow on Thursday and travel to Kiev on Friday for talks with Ukraine's acting president and prime minister, the U.N. said.

'He's made clear we're at a crossroads and ... the focus must be to engage direct dialogue between Moscow and Kiev aimed at agreeing on specific measures that will pave the way towards a diplomatic solution,' U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.



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[Amonester]

1. So, are they to start WW3 or WW4 yet?

Hope some cooler heads remember them very few would barely survive one.

[olddad56]

2. So, does the UN have a provision for voting out an aggressive member who is violating ..

the very principals that UN stands for, yet has veto powers? If not, the UN had better pack it in because it has become obsolete.

[davidpdx]

3. My guess is no

[iemitsu]

4. If they did we would have been voted out many times.

[another_liberal]

9. Yes indeed!

We would have been gone by the early Sixties, at least.

[geek tragedy]

5. If they did there would be no one left with veto powers nt

[Ash_F]

6. The UN veto is obsolete, not the UN.

It was a political power that the most military powerful helped themselves to. Funny how that works.

[Bragi]

12. I support the veto

The veto is necessary to keep the major powers in the organization. As they say in technology, this is a feature, not a bug. Without the major power veto, the US would be the first out the door.

[another_liberal]

7. I can't believe the UN Sec. Gen. is actually going to only meet with . . .

That collection of unelected, coup-installed, hand-picked American sock puppets in Kiev when the democratically-elected, legally valid President of Ukraine, Yanukovich, is still alive and willing to meet with him. This really goes to show how much wealthy and powerful interests in the West (principally in our own country) have succeeded in corrupting the founding principles and ideals of the United Nations to serve their own venal needs and desires.

(sigh)

[geek tragedy]

11. Maybe because everyone else thinks Russia is full of shit.

No one else at the Security Council stuck up for Russia. No one, not even China

No one believes the gasbags at rt.com and the Kremlin

Russia being an aggressive asshole bully has its consequences. The rest of the world isn't in a conspiracy against it.

[another_liberal]

13. I would be embarrassed to offer a something like that.

Nothing but scatological insults, topped off with unsupported, meaningless fluff and feathers.

[Cha]

14. ...

Poor putie

[another_liberal]

10. Your points are well chosen and convincingly argued.

Thank you for posting with such clarity of detail concerning Ambassador Powers' quite dubious and rather embarrassing recent performance at the United Nations.