Russia vetoed this Friday A resolution was tabled by the United States and Albania in the UN Security Council Moscow condemned the Russian annexation referendums in occupied Ukrainian territories.
There were 10 votes in favor of the resolution, one against and four abstentions.
The draft resolution, titled “Illegal Referendums in Ukraine,” condemned the consultations organized and conducted by Russia in four occupied regions of Ukraine from September 23 to 27, declaring them invalid and non-binding. These areas were annexed by the Kremlin.
Do you really expect Russia to pass this resolution?” Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, asked ironically before vetoing the bill.
As the resolution was vetoed by Russia, which has veto power as a permanent member of the Security Council, the plan must go to a vote in the UN General Assembly, where a majority of countries have condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine. .
On Thursday, the UN Secretary General warned Russia to annex Ukrainian territories. It “will have no legal value and deserves to be condemned”, asserting that it “cannot be reconciled with the international legal framework”.One of the strongest statements made by Antonio Guterres since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans to hold referendums in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya regions and to partially mobilize military reserves to support Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.
After referendums that the Kremlin says were overwhelmingly in favor, four regions of Ukraine will now be annexed by Russia.
In 2014, Russia already used the result of a referendum held under military occupation to legalize the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula into the Black Sea.
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