Russia ‘should not be’ permanent security council member

RUSSIA “should not be” a permanent member of the UN security council, US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in an interview with AFP.

“Russia is a permanent member of the security council. It shouldn’t be, because of what it is doing in Ukraine, but the (UN) charter does not allow for a change in its permanent membership,” Thomas-Greenfield said yesterday from Costa Rica, where she was attending a democracy summit.