Talk:Russia's membership in the United Nations
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For the May 2005 deletion debate on this article, see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Assumption by Russia of the Soviet Union's seat in the United Nations.
[edit] Eleven of the twelve members of the CIS signed a declaration...
Idle curiosity. Which one didn't? Russia itself, or one of the others? Ah. Georgia, right? –Hajor 00:21, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] The UK
If Northern Ireland were to break away from the United Kingdom, so that it changed from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain, would that create the same kind of legal dispute over the UK's seat? Nik42 22:31, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
- Probably not, because a mere name change or change in a member's territory does not terminate the entity. The difference is that the Soviet Union was formally dissolved. 24.54.208.177 16:08, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
- Northern Ireland is only one of 4 major divisions in the United Kingdom, so there likely wouldn't be a dispute. Even a change that would have taken the country from the USSR's size to Russia's size would likely be resolved without much dispute - as the above comment noted, it was the dissolution of the government that caused the trouble. Without a dissolution, the only "split" that I think would cause such a dispute would be a division on the scale of the (temporary) one that was apparent during the American Civil War. (See Border states (Civil War) for a map demonstrating the division.) --Tim4christ17 17:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
