The United States and Albania proposed to the UN Security Council to vote for a resolution condemning the annexation of part of Ukraine declared by Moscow.
Russia, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, at a meeting on Friday vetoed the resolution S/2022/720 which condemned the so-called pseudo-referendum in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops. On Friday, September 30, Reuters reports.
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield presented a resolution calling on Security Council member countries not to recognize any change in Ukraine’s status and oblige Russia to withdraw its troops.
He said the attempt to annex the territory of a sovereign country was contrary to the founding principles of the United Nations and Putin said he was celebrating “this clear violation of international law” at a concert that took place after he announced the annexation. .
“He threw a party in Red Square to pat himself on the back for these illegal referendums,” Thomas-Greenfield said.
When discussing the resolution, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, accused the United States of “obscenity”: they say that putting a resolution condemning the actions of a permanent member of the Security Council to a vote violates an established practice and provokes. Moscow to use the right of veto.
In response, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the resolution would be put to a vote in the General Assembly, where there is no veto power, to show that the world “is still on the side of the sovereignty and defense of territorial assertion.”
Ten countries supported this resolution, China, Gabon, India and Brazil abstained.
The document denounced Russia’s “organization of illegal so-called referendums in regions within Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders,” which “have no legal force.”
Recall that on Friday, September 30, the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, signed agreements on the “accession” of Ukrainian regions to the Russian Federation.
And the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced today the signing of an application for accelerated entry into NATO.
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Source: korrespondent
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