The text of the resolution expresses a persistent call to Russia to immediately and unconditionally withdraw all its troops from the territory of Ukraine.
The General Assembly of the United Nations supported the resolution on a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine in accordance with the UN Charter.
As the correspondent reports, the relevant resolution on the principles of the UN Charter as the basis of a just peace in Ukraine was supported during an extraordinary special session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
The results of the vote were announced by the head of the UN General Assembly, Chaba Keryoshi.
In particular, 141 UN member countries voted for the resolution, 32 abstained. 7 countries voted against it – Russia, Belarus, Syria, North Korea, Eritrea, Nicaragua and Mali.
The draft resolution was jointly presented by Ukraine and more than 70 other countries that became co-authors of the document.
The text of the resolution expresses a persistent call to Russia to immediately and unconditionally withdraw all its troops from the territory of Ukraine.
The President’s Office has already reacted to the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations of the resolution on peace in Ukraine. The head of the OPU called the adoption of the resolution a victory and noted: “Among those who supported us are the leading states of the Middle East. In recent weeks, I have been in constant contact with them. I am very grateful to everyone who, on the anniversary of the unprovoked Russian aggression, stood up for Ukraine. Such states. – 141. The world understands whose side the truth is on.”
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Last week, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that this week almost 60 countries will submit a draft resolution on the war in Ukraine to the UN General Assembly, and it will be considered on the eve of the first anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion.
As the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, noted, the meeting of the UN General Assembly took place under conditions of extreme tension. Russia tried to block the vote on the draft resolution in support of peace in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, China spoke from the podium of the UN General Assembly for the cessation of Western arms supplies to Ukraine, as it allegedly hinders the establishment of peace.