The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution calling for a “comprehensive and lasting” peace in the country which has been the site of armed conflict and reaffirming its support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Ukraine.
The said resolution stipulates the “immediate” withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine and calls on member states to deploy more diplomatic efforts to establish a “comprehensive, just and lasting” peace in Ukraine, in accordance with international law and the Charter. United Nations.
The resolution demands that the Russian Federation “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all its military forces from Ukrainian territory within the country’s internationally recognized borders”.
This non-binding resolution was adopted by a very large majority, 141 votes for, 7 once morest and 32 abstentions. Several countries have agreed to this decision, including Morocco, Bahrain, Canada, Egypt, Iraq, France, Germany, Ivory Coast, Turkey and many others . While others were once morest the said resolution, citing in this regard, Belarus, Mali, Nicaragua, Syria, Eritrea, North Korea and Russia. As for the countries which abstained, they were 32 out of 193 Member States of the United Nations, in particular China, India and Algeria.
The UN has urged parties to armed conflict to fully assume their responsibilities under international humanitarian law, and to take the necessary precautions to protect civilians and ensure safe and unimpeded access to those in need of assistance.
It should be remembered that 143 countries, including Morocco, were in favor last October regarding the condemnation of Russian annexations in Ukraine during the UN General Assembly. By 143 votes for, 5 votes once morest and 35 abstentions, the resolution in question gathered the majority of opinions, describing the annexation as “illegal”.
In the same resolution, the GA called on “all states, international organizations and United Nations specialized agencies not to recognize any changes by the Russian Federation to the status of all or part of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhia and to refrain from any act or contact that might be interpreted as recognition of such a change in status”. The UN also stressed that Russia cannot “wipe a sovereign state off the map “.
