The UN General Assembly on February 24 supported a resolution initiated by Ukraine and European countries. 93 countries voted in favor of the draft resolution.
18 countries voted against, including the United States, Russia, and Belarus. Another 65 UN member states abstained, including China. The document calls Russia an aggressor country and demands that it withdraw its troops from Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.
The United Nations General Assembly also supported the American resolution on the war in Ukraine. 93 countries voted in favor, 8 against, and 73 abstained. The original text of the document did not call Russia an aggressor, nor did it call on Moscow to withdraw its army from the occupied territories.
However, the document was amended, replacing the words “conflict” with “full-scale invasion” and the clause “lasting peace between Ukraine and the Russian Federation” with “a just, lasting and comprehensive peace between Ukraine and the Russian Federation in accordance with the UN Charter and the principles of sovereign equality and territorial integrity of states”. In the end, the US abstained from voting on its own resolution.
- Washington recently proposed its own draft UN resolution to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The proposal differed significantly from the version supported in Europe and included a Russian amendment.
- According to sources in The Washington Post, the Trump Administration then pressured Kyiv to withdraw the draft resolution on Russian aggression. This “stunned” Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky ordered the country’s Foreign Ministry not to withdraw the current resolution.
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