Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses the United Nations Security Council during a ministerial level meeting of the Security Council on the crisis in Ukraine at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 20, 2023. "There is a solution for this," Rama continued, addressing Nebenzia directly: "If you agree, you stop the war and President Zelenskiy will not take the floor." After the session, Zelenskiy thanked Rama on social media, saying the Albanian, who is both an artist and former basketball player, "showed the world how to correctly handle Russia, its lies, and its hypocrisy." When given the floor after the back-and-forth, Zelenskiy asked Russia be stripped of its veto right as one of five permanent members of the post-World War Two U.N. Security Council as punishment for attacking Ukraine. Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by Howard GollerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Mike Segar, Volodomyr Zelenskiy's, Vassily Nebenzia, Rama, Nebenzia, Zelenskiy, Sergei Lavrov, Gabriela Baczynska, Howard Goller Organizations: United Nations Security Council, Security, REUTERS, UNITED NATIONS, Albanian, Edi Rama, NATO, Ukraine, Russian, Kyiv, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, U.N, New York, Moscow, Russia