UN General Assembly emergency meeting; On Monday about the crisis in Ukraine

The chairman of the UN General Assembly announced that the emergency meeting on the Ukraine crisis will be held on Monday at 10 am New York time.

Abdullah Shahid added: “After the decision of the Security Council, tomorrow, February 28, 2022, 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.

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 the war in Ukraine. In this vote, 11 of the 15 members of the Security Council voted in favor of convening an immediate 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, which has five permanent members of the Security Council and has veto power, failed to 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.

Simultaneously with the diplomatic moves, based on the latest developments in the field, Alexander Svidlov, the mayor of the southern Ukrainian city of Berdyansk, announced that Russian forces had entered the city and taken control of it.

According to CNN, Berdyansk, home to a small Ukrainian naval base, has a population of about 100,000.

“Some time ago, armed soldiers entered the building of the city’s executive committee and introduced themselves as Russian troops, informing us that all the office buildings were under their control and that they were seeking control of the executive committee building,” Sweidlou said in a message on social media. .

Criticizing the West’s indifference to Moscow’s security concerns, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that his country recognizes the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics and signed cooperation and friendship agreements with the leaders of those republics at the Kremlin Palace.

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 around 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.