Thirteen countries voted against holding a public vote on the draft resolution while 39 countries abstained. Russia asked for a secret ballot for the vote, but the UN General Assembly rejected its request with 107 votes in favor. The General Assembly is expected to vote on a draft resolution this week condemning Moscow-backed "illegal" referendums to annex parts of eastern Ukraine - Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson - in violation of international law.Ī resolution drafted by the European Union and co-sponsored by Türkiye for the UN body to consider would isolate Russia from the international community if adopted. He said Ukraine is being used as a “testing site for NATO weapons” and proxy fights with Russia.
Nebenzia accused NATO of escalating the conflict and said it is NATO that Russia is really confronted with in Ukraine. Russia's UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia called the meeting ''highly politicized,'' adding it was specifically launched to promote an anti-Russian narrative. ''A trail of blood is left behind the Russian delegation when it enters the General Assembly, and the hall is filled up with the smell of smoldering human flesh.'' And if the latter happens, we should blame nobody but ourselves,'' he said.
''We are now at a tipping point where the UN will either restore its credibility or it will ultimately fall in failure. He said Russia's illegal annexations of Ukrainian territory pose an ''existential threat'' to the UN, and the international community needs to defend the principles of the UN Charter. By launching missile attacks on civilians sleeping in their homes or rushing to work, children going to schools, Russia has proven once again that it is a terrorist state that must be deterred in the strongest possible ways,'' said Kyslytsya. ''Deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime. ''The entire world has once again seen the true face of the terrorist state that kills our people,'' Ukraine's UN ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya told the UN General Assembly. The UN General Assembly convened an emergency session Monday to discuss Moscow-backed "illegal" referendums to annex parts of eastern Ukraine, with Kyiv's envoy accusing Russia of being a ''terrorist state'' hours after it conducted deadly strikes across his country that killed at least 14 civilians.
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