![]() ![]() The Security Council meeting, set for later Monday, was focused on the humanitarian impact of Russia’s invasion. “Nothing can be gained from stirring up a new Cold War, but everyone will stand to lose.” “The Cold War has long ended,” Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun said. ![]() “But a good friend, an honest friend, will speak up and say what needs to be said and what needs to be done when a friend commits and illegal and evil act.”īut China, a close ally of Russia, called for fostering “conditions conducive to direct talks between the parties concerned,” frowning on “any approach that may exacerbate tensions.” We love the culture, admire the traditions and have good Russian friends,” Austrian Ambassador Alexander Marschik told the assembly. “Many of us have good relations with Russia. Many countries’ envoys exhorted their colleagues to vote yes. It deplores what it calls Russia’s “aggression” and the “involvement” of Belarus, which is siding with Moscow. The draft resolution, obtained by The Associated Press, demands that Russia immediately stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops and urges an “immediate peaceful resolution” through dialogue and negotiations. The assembly session will give all UN members an opportunity to speak about the war - more than 100 signed up to do so - and to vote on a resolution later in the week. “The guns are talking now, but the path of dialogue must always remain open,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the assembly. In Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council voted to hold its own urgent session. “Russia is seeking to end this war.”Īs Russian and Ukrainian officials held talks on the Belarus border, the UN’s two major bodies - the 193-nation General Assembly and the more powerful 15-member Security Council - both had meetings scheduled Monday on the war. “The Russian Federation did not begin these hostilities that were unleashed by Ukraine against its own residents,” he said. Russia has repeatedly sought to blame Ukraine for what Moscow claims are abuses of Russian speakers in the eastern enclaves. “Russian actions are being distorted and thwarted,” he complained. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia reiterated his country’s assertions that what it calls a “special military operation” in defense of two breakaway areas in eastern Ukraine is being misrepresented. ![]() If Ukraine does not survive, we cannot be surprised if democracy fails next.” If Ukraine does not survive, the United Nations will not survive,” he said. Ukraine “is paying now the ultimate price for freedom and security of itself and all the world,” Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya said at the assembly’s first emergency meeting in decades. Ukraine’s ambassador told the world that if his country is crushed, international peace and democracy are in peril, as the United Nations General Assembly held a rare emergency session in a day of frenzied diplomacy at the UN about the days-old war. ![]()
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