Zelensky, in UN showdown, says strip 'criminal' Russia of veto power

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Others also scheduled to attend included Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
52% : " Zelensky called on the United Nations to strip Russia of its Security Council veto power, describing it as a vital reform that would simultaneously promote greater representation at the UN for the developing world -- where support for Ukraine has been lukewarm.
43% : Putin, who rarely travels to the United Nations, did not come this year.
40% : "It is a grave indictment of this international community that we can spend so much on war, but we cannot support action that needs to be taken to meet the most basic needs of billions of people," South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tuesday. sct/md/sms
38% : Zelensky repeated the Ukrainian stance that the veto power belonged to the former Soviet Union -- one of the victors of World War II after which the United Nations was created -- and not to President Vladimir Putin's Russia.
34% : "Veto power in the hands of the aggressor is what has pushed the UN into a deadlock," Zelensky said.
29% : "Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in clear violation of the United Nations Charter and international law, is aggravating geopolitical tensions and divisions, threatening regional stability, increasing the nuclear threat and creating deep fissures in our increasingly multipolar world," Guterres said.

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