"The global security system is not working, it must be changed" — Ukrainian ombudsman
Dmytro Lubinets, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, stated this during the conference "UA: Human Rights in Dark Times"
Lubinets outlined the key points that Ukraine today wants to convey:
1. The world security system is not working, it needs to be changed, new approaches must be sought. If international organizations fail to fulfill their mandates, even though they have more than a century of history, they must either disappear or change.
2. The Russian Federation is not just a sponsor of terrorism, it is a terrorist country, and its representatives should be expelled from all international organizations.
3. Special attention should be paid to the issue of the return of Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages held by Russia in violation of all the norms of the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, and the idea of international humanitarian law in general.
"The system of collective security does not work, because there is no mechanism to bring to justice for aggression. It started in 1992, when one independent country took away a part of another independent country — Moldova. What was the response of the international collective security system? No response. Chechnya was next, then Georgia, and in 2014, Ukraine, but only now has the world realized that aggression must be responded to with direct aid: financial, political and, above all, military," said the Ombudsman.
Dmytro Lubinets told how the global system of world security can be changed:
1. To create a rapid response body that will help the country affected by aggression.
2. The next step is to launch the tribunal procedure, so that the top military and political leadership of the aggressor state knows that there will be responsibility for the criminal orders and actions of each serviceman who carries them out.
3. Automatic termination of the activities of the representatives of the aggressor country in all international organizations. If such a mechanism existed, the Russian Federation would have long lost its veto right in the UN Security Council.
