Activities in the United Nations
From 2016 to 2017, Ukraine served its fourth term as a List of members of the United Nations Security Council, non-permanent member in the United Nations Security Council in the Eastern European Group, having previously served its terms in 1948–49, 1984–85 and 2000–01. Following the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014, UN member states United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262, voted to retain recognition of Crimea as part of Ukraine.History
Ukraine in the Soviet Union (1945–1991)
Ukraine signed the Charter of the United Nations as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on 26 June, 1945, and it came into force on 24 October, 1945. Ukraine was among the first countries that signed the United Nations Charter, becoming a Member states of the United Nations, founding member of the United Nations among 51 countries. This provided the Soviet Union (a permanent United Nations Security Council, Security Council member with veto powers) with another vote in the United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly. Dmitry Manuilsky, head of the Ukrainian delegation at the United Nations Conference on International Organization, held in April–June 1945 in San Francisco, was elected Chairman of the First Committee, which elaborated the Preamble and Chapter 1 (Purposes and Principles) of the United Nations Charter. Until 1958, the permanent mission of Ukraine was led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union), Minister of Foreign Affairs rather than the permanent representative. Another right that was granted but never used until 1991 was the right of the Soviet republics to secede from the union, which was codified in each of the Constitution of the Soviet Union, Soviet constitutions. Accordingly, Article 69 of the Constitutions of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR stated: "The Ukrainian SSR retains the right to willfully secede from the USSR." However, a republic's theoretical secession from the union was virtually impossible and unrealistic in many ways prior to Mikhail Gorbachev, Gorbachev's perestroika reforms.Independent Ukraine (since 1991)
During the events of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, on 26 August, 1991, the Permanent Representative of the Ukrainian SSR, Hennadiy Udovenko, informed the office of the Secretary General of the United Nations that his permanent mission to the international assembly would officially be designated as representing Ukraine.See also
* Foreign relations of Ukraine * Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations * Eleventh emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly * United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/1, "Aggression against Ukraine"References
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