Russia vetoes U.N. Security Council action on Ukraine

Russia vetoes U.N. Security Council action on Ukraine, and India, China abstains. 

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However, Russia vetoed a draught U.N. Security Council resolution on Friday that would have condemned Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. 

China did not vote, which the West sees as a sign of Russia’s isolation from the rest of the world.

The United Arab Emirates and India also did not vote on the text written by the United States. The other 11 members of the council voted in favor. 

There are now 193 members of the U.N. General Assembly, and the draught resolution is now expected to be looked at.

After Russia vetoed the resolution, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations: “We are united in our support for Ukraine and its people.”

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This means that Russia has a say in how the Security Council works. The U.S., China, France, and Britain also have veto power.

China didn’t show up at the meeting. This comes just a few weeks after China and Russia said they had a “no limits” partnership, backing each other in standoffs over Ukraine and Taiwan and promising to work together more against the West. 

During a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia thanked those who didn’t support the draught, which he called anti-Russian.

Proposals like yours are “yet another brutal, inhumane move on this Ukrainian chessboard,” Nebenzia said after the vote.

During his speech, Ukraine’s U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya held a moment of silence to remember those who died. There was a rare round of applause.

“I’m not surprised that Russia didn’t vote for it. Russia wants to keep going in the same direction as it did in the Nazi era, “He said that.

Russians must stop using force against Ukraine “immediately,” the draught resolution said. 

They must also “immediately, completely, and unconditionally” leave Ukraine’s borders that are internationally recognized.

Also, the draught said that Russia should stop treating two separatist states in eastern Ukraine as independent, which it had done before.

“Because diplomacy was not used, it is a sad thing that it was not used more often. So we must go back to it. When this resolution was put up for a vote, India did not vote because of all of these reasons, “T.S. Tirumurti, the Indian ambassador to the U.N., told the council.

Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh, from the United Arab Emirates, said her country agreed with the draught resolution’s emphasis on adhering to international law and the U.N. Charter. 

It was committed to territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of all U.N. member states.

Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, said: “We must never give up.”

“It’s important to remember that the United Nations is not just the room behind me. It’s a lot bigger than that. They are women and men all over the world, “He said that. “Standing, giving, and giving a lifeline of hope.”