But Alexander Pankin, Russian Deputy Permanent Representative at the United Nations, said that the use of veto or “a threat of the use of veto have saved the United Nations Organization from dubious decisions more than once.” Thanks to this, in his words, the United Nations had not been involved in aggression against Yugoslavia, in the intervention to Iraq and had not allowed to “push Syria to an abyss.”

He reminded that the right to veto in the case of Libya had not been used but the resolution passed “was used as a pretext for air strikes and toppling of the legal government.” In the long run, he stressed, the country was plunged into chaos.