Several speakers spotlighted the potential threats posed by arming mercenaries, while others expressed concern over the disruptive potential of arms transfers to conflict zones. Many urged that Member States have a duty to settle their disputes through diplomatic means. In the ensuing discussion, some Council members rejected attempts to justify or distort responsibility for the Russian Federation’s military aggression against Ukraine, underscoring that Ukraine has the right to defend itself under the Charter of the United Nations. The Russian Federation invaded Ukraine on fabricated reasons, he said, but Moscow has been so bold as to demand that the West does not supply Kyiv with weapons. It is also by that same right that so many nations have contributed to Ukraine’s defence. “If anything, they have not gone far enough,” he added. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, meanwhile said that it is by the inherent right of self-defence that Ukraine asks the world for military aid. Ukrainians dying in the thousands on the battlefield are the foremost victims of a military escalation, he emphasized. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is supporting a military proxy conflict in that country, one described by the United States Department of State as “endemically corrupt”. He asked those present: “Why are we tempting nuclear annihilation by flooding Ukraine with advanced weapons and sabotaging negotiations at every turn?”Ĭhay Bowes, a scholar specializing in small arms and munitions, said that a “frenzied, incalculable, loosely regulated” supply of weapons has flooded into Ukraine.
Recalling President Biden’s words in March 2022 characterizing the provision of offensive equipment to Kyiv as “World War III”, he noted that “Biden changed his tune” just over a year later. Max Blumenthal, founder and editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, said that the Joseph Biden Administration knows that “it is escalating a proxy war against the world’s largest nuclear Power”.
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The establishment of the Unified Weapons Register by the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs and Police - designed to digitize registration and accounting - is a timely initiative as well, she said. “To prevent the diversion of weapons, supply chain transparency and cooperation and information exchange between importing, transit and exporting States is required,” she stressed, adding that the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms is a key instrument in this regard. There are reports, she noted, that the supply of arms and ammunition has accelerated ahead of the reported Ukrainian counteroffensive, as well as of States transferring or planning to transfer weapons to the Russian armed forces for use in Ukraine. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, warned that the supply of weapons into any armed conflict raises significant concerns about the potential escalation of violence and the risks of diversion. The issue of supplying weapons to Ukraine divided both those briefing the Security Council today and the discussion that followed, as contentions that arms transfers have escalated the conflict met assertions that the embattled country has the inherent right to defend itself from the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion. Briefers Alternately Spotlight Western Proxy War, Kyiv’s Right to Self-Defence
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