Ukraine\u2019s national holiday will coincide with a major diplomatic spotlight, as European governments press the UN to revisit the war\u2019s consequences.<\/p>\n
On Monday, August 24, when Ukraine marks Independence Day, the UN Security Council will hold a meeting on the consequences of Russia\u2019s ongoing aggression. The date of the meeting was announced by the Security Council Secretariat.<\/p>\n
The discussion was initiated by five European members of the UN Security Council: Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Who Will Chair the UN Security Council Meeting<\/p>\n
The meeting is expected to be chaired by Danish Foreign Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen. In August, Denmark holds the presidency of the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n
UN Deputy Secretaries-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Tom Fletcher, responsible for political and humanitarian affairs respectively, are expected to speak at the meeting.<\/p>\n
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, which corresponds to 10:00 p.m. Kyiv time.<\/p>\n
Previous Discussions of Russian Aggression<\/p>\n
The previous emergency meeting of the UN Security Council dedicated to Ukraine and Russian aggression took place on July 27.<\/p>\n
In addition, on August 10, Security Council members held an informal Arria-formula meeting. It focused on Russia\u2019s violations of international humanitarian law concerning prisoners of war and civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s national holiday will coincide with a major diplomatic spotlight, as European governments press the UN to revisit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2882,11274,82,11275,9472,11276,8074],"class_list":["post-31763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-international-diplomacy","tag-lars-lokke-rasmussen","tag-news","tag-russias-aggression","tag-ukraine-independence-day","tag-un-meeting","tag-un-security-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}