Russo-Ukraine War: The United Nations Security Council Will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday at the request of six western countries seeking an open session Ukraine Ahead of an expected vote on a Russian humanitarian proposal, which he has sharply criticized.
,Russia Committing war crimes and targeting civilians. Russia’s illegal war on Ukraine is a threat to all of us,” tweeted the UN mission United Kingdom, one of six countries requesting the meeting. Additionally, the mission posted the flags of six council countries requesting the meeting – the UK, US, France, Ireland, Norway and Albania.
America, Britain, France, Albania, Ireland, Norway have called an emergency meeting. According to the news agency, “UN Security Council meeting has been called at 3 pm today to discuss the #Ukraine humanitarian situation.” ANI report good.
It comes in the wake of Russia circulating a proposed Security Council resolution on Tuesday that called for safe passage to security and humanitarian aid for civilians in Ukraine “under vulnerable circumstances” and war for those seeking to leave the country. without asking.
The draft resolution would also outline the need for “related parties” to agree on a humanitarian stoppage for the rapid evacuation of “all citizens”, but it never identifies the parties,
A vote on the proposal by the council is expected on Friday. Russia submitted its draft a day after France and Mexico announced that a humanitarian resolution on Ukraine they had co-sponsored would be moved to the 193-member General Assembly after two weeks of discussion on the draft in the 15-member Security Council. was being done.
The France-Mexico draft resolution would demand an “immediate cessation of hostilities” and condemn “the grave humanitarian consequences of hostilities against Ukraine”. Those provisions are not in the Russian text, and the France-Mexico proposal would almost certainly lead to a Russian veto if voted to in council.
Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, Barbara Woodward, tweeted on Tuesday that the Russian draft “has some obvious omissions. For example, the fact that Russia is the aggressor here, and it is Russia’s aggression that is driving this humanitarian crisis.” Is.”
Deputy Russian Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky replied in a tweet on Thursday, “Nice move!” and asked the UK to give examples where UN humanitarian resolutions referred to “aggression” or “aggression”.
Russian officials say they did not start the war and have repeatedly dismissed reports of Russian military failures or civilian casualties in Ukraine as fake news. They also condemn reports calling its military operations war or invasion. State media outlets and government officials insist that Russian forces only target military facilities, despite extensive video footage of civilians and civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings and hospitals, being hit by Russian missiles.
Polinski tweeted that Russia is “fully on board with a humanitarian lesson” but said it was clear that members of the Western Council do not need it.
However, Mexican ambassador Juan Ramón de la Fuente told reporters on Wednesday that he and French ambassador Nicolas de Rivere were working on taking their humanitarian proposal to the General Assembly “very soon – in the next days”. More on that this week or next week.
The Russian mission said their proposal could be voted on Wednesday, but some council members wanted to discuss the text and a closed meeting of council experts took place on Wednesday morning. Russia then asked to delay the vote, and the United Arab Emirates, which chairs the council this month, said it was now scheduled for Friday.
(with inputs from agencies)
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