This Thursday, the General Assembly of United nations Hold a meeting during the special session that Argentina Supported the invitation to Russia Immediate cessation of hostilities against Ukraine and in particular from any attack against civilians and civilian objects.”
On the day on which one month takes place from the day on which the government Russian President Vladimir Putin It swept through the Ukrainian territory, and the organization returned to deal with the issue of the armed conflict that had already left dozens dead and wounded. Of the 193 members who make up the plenary session, 140 members supported the initiative, while only five rejected it. RussiaSyria, Eritrea, Belarus and North Korea were the ones who gave the negative and 38 abstained from voting.
RussiaThrough his permanent representative to the organization, Vasily Nebenzia, he called the resolution a “pseudo-humanitarian” and added that “it is not worth delving into the reasons why Russia voted against the project (…) submitted by Western countries and Ukraine“.
The Russian ambassador added that the authors of the resolution only needed him “to denounce once again.” RussiaAnd Sputnik news agency reported, “Various labels have been put on the country.
A second resolution on the humanitarian situation proposed by South Africa, in the text of which Russia did not mention – the desire of some countries, chief among them Moscow, which claims that the conflict should not be “politicised” – was rejected by 67 votes in favour, 50 in favour, and 36 abstentions.
Ukrainian ambassador to United nationsAnd the Sergey Kiselciahe tried to avoid a vote on the second resolution by considering that the text “was not the product of consultations with Ukraine or regional consultations”, unlike the first.
This is the second consecutive loss he has suffered. Moscow After the previous day, a resolution presented by the said country, also on the humanitarian situation, was rejected in the Security Council, which received only positive votes from representatives of Moscow and China, while the remaining 13 members abstained.
On March 2, in a historic resolution, 141 countries voted in favor of another resolution condemning the Russian invasion against 35 countries that abstained (including China, Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Bolivia, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, or Pakistan) and five countries . Vote against (North Korea, Syria, Belarus, Eritrea and Russia itself).