Emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly on the crisis in Ukraine begins
According to IRNA, the chairman of the UN General Assembly, Abdullah Shahid, called for a minute of silence at the beginning of the meeting in honor of those killed in the Ukraine war.
He announced on Sunday that after the decision of the Security Council, on Monday, February 28, 2022 (March 9, 1400) at 10:00 AM, I will chair the special emergency session of the General Assembly.
Diplomats say it is the first time in decades that the UN Security Council has called for an urgent meeting of the General Assembly.
Representatives of many countries have registered to speak at this emergency meeting to express their country’s views on the war in Ukraine. It is said that some countries may speak out after the vote.
Finally, after four emergency Security Council meetings following the Ukraine crisis, and despite the West’s failure to pass a resolution against Moscow, the Security Council voted to convene a special and urgent meeting of the General Assembly to vote on the issue for all UN members. Let.
The emergency meeting was held Sunday evening, the fourth meeting of the Security Council for the fourth time in seven days, at the request of the United States and Albania to veto a previous resolution proposed by Russia, the Ukraine crisis and condemnation of Moscow’s military action. Follow the UN General Assembly.
Voting began at the start of the fourth emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Sunday evening, with Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, one of the parties to the Ukraine crisis, whose presidency holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month. (February) is in charge, read.
Members of the Security Council voted in favor of a draft resolution calling for an immediate and special session of the UN General Assembly following the outbreak of war in Ukraine. In this vote, 11 of the 15 members of the Security Council voted in favor of convening an urgent and special session of the General Assembly, three countries, including China, India and the UAE, abstained and one country, Russia itself, voted against.
These were the same votes that were taken in opposition to the proposed US resolution against Russia at the third emergency meeting of the Security Council on Friday.
Russia, a five-member veto-wielding Security Council member, could not use its veto power at the meeting. According to the third paragraph of Article 27 of the UN Charter, only 9 out of 15 votes of the permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council are required to approve non-substantive (formal) issues. In these matters, if the permanent members of the Security Council vote against, it will not be considered a veto.
A total of 51 countries announced in a joint statement on Friday, March 25, 2014, after Russia vetoed a US-sponsored resolution at its third emergency Security Council meeting on the same day. The United Nations will follow up.
Criticizing the West’s indifference to Moscow’s security concerns, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that his country recognizes the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics and signed cooperation and friendship agreements with their leaders at the Kremlin.
In a speech on Russian national television on the morning of Thursday, February 24, Putin announced military action in Donbas and called on Ukrainian forces to lay down their weapons and go home.
Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, the war has now entered its fifth day, and as the war continues, the flood of global reactions to the event continues, and diplomatic pressure and international threats and sanctions against Russia are increasing.
Many countries in the world, including European countries and the United States, immediately condemned Russia’s move as a war against Ukraine, and began to redouble their diplomatic and economic pressure on Russia.