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Pantagruel

(2,580 posts) Fri Mar 4, 2022, 01:29 PM Mar 2022

Would it be possible

to insert U.N. Peacekeepers to guard the FOUR Ukrainian nuclear reactor sites?

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Would it be possible (Original Post) Pantagruel Mar 2022 OP

Too late for 2 of them gab13by13 Mar 2022 #1

No atreides1 Mar 2022 #2

Maybe it would in Russia's interest? Pantagruel Mar 2022 #3

gab13by13

(21,349 posts)

1. Too late for 2 of them

Reply to Pantagruel (Original post)

Fri Mar 4, 2022, 01:29 PM

Mar 2022

atreides1

(16,079 posts)

2. No

Reply to Pantagruel (Original post)

Fri Mar 4, 2022, 01:37 PM

Mar 2022

The United Nations Charter gives the United Nations Security Council the power and responsibility to take collective action to maintain international peace and security. For this reason, the international community usually looks to the Security Council to authorize peacekeeping operations through Chapter VII authorizations.

As long as Russia holds a seat on the UN Security Council, any attempt to use UN Peacekeepers will be met with a veto!

Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)

3. Maybe it would in Russia's interest?

Reply to atreides1 (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 4, 2022, 02:45 PM

Mar 2022

I've wondered why Putin is so focused on nuclear sites like Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia?

Maybe he's worried the Ukes remove fissile material for future guerrilla acts v. the Russian homeland. U.N. control might preclude that?

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