Friday, March 29

Russia vetoes in the UN a resolution condemning the referendums in Ukraine


Russia vetoed this Friday in the UN Security Council a resolution that sought to condemn the “illegal” referendums of annexation organized in four Ukrainian regions and which demanded from Moscow the immediate withdrawal of its troops from the neighboring country. The Russian “no” was the only vote against the text proposed by the United States and Albania, which received ten supports and four countries, including China, abstained.

Washington had already anticipated that, before the foreseeable Russian vetointends to bring a proposal similar to the one United Nations General Assembly, where no State can alone block a decision, but whose resolutions have less weight. The goal, according to the US ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, will be to send Moscow an “unequivocal message” that “the world is still on the side of defending sovereignty and protecting territorial integrity.”

Thomas-Greenfield, asking for a favorable vote for his proposal, stressed that the Security Council was created precisely to act on issues like this and that it should respond to “the illegal acts of Russia to annex Ukrainian territory.” “The United Nations was built on the idea that one country would never again be allowed to take the territory of another by force,” stressed the US diplomat, who stressed that the results of these “fraudulent referendums were predetermined from Moscow and the whole world. he knows”.

Meanwhile, the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, called the resolution a “hostile action by the West” and a “provocation.” “Do you seriously believe that Russia can consider and support this draft? And if you don’t, then you are intentionally pushing us to use the veto and then get lyrical about the fact that Russia abuses this right,” Nebenzia insisted. .

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The Moscow representative defended the legality of the consultations held in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, noting that those who voted showed overwhelming support for joining Russia.

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The Russian ambassador also charged against the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterreswhich yesterday had roundly rejected the referendums and the Russian plans to annex those territories.

“Any decision to proceed with the annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia will have no legal value and deserves to be condemned,” Guterres had said before Russian President Vladimir Putin made that measure official today.


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