Abstract:

The article emphasizes that since the discussion of the creation of the UN, the USSR and its republics have appeared as subjects of constituent acts, as well as commented on the circumstances of the UN founding conference in San Francisco in 1945, to which delegations of two "main" republics were invited - the Ukrainian SSR and the BSSR, which (along with the USSR and other states) and signed the UN Charter. The author concludes that the membership of Ukraine and Belarus in the UN provided the USSR with certain advantages, when, for one reason or another, the direct participation of the USSR in the work of the UN did not seem conveniently recognized as international law. Thus, in the practice of international communication, various approaches to territorial entities as participants in external relations were developed.

Keywords: UN, USSR, diplomacy, territorial integrity, Ukraine, Belarus