US Responds to Ukraine’s Call to Remove Russia from UN Security Council

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, at a briefing in New York City on March 1, 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

There will be no changes to Russia’s permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Representative to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield says.

“I’m also aware of their request to re-look at Russia’s permanent seat on the Security Council. But again, the Russians have the permanent seat, and I don’t see at the moment that there will be any changes in that,” she said during an interview on PBS’s “Firing Line” on May 6.