Security Council statements shall be adopted by consensus. The short text that was adopted was drafted by Norway and Mexico.
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“The Security Council expresses its deep concern with regard to maintaining peace and security in Ukraine,” he said. “The Security Council recalls that, under the UN Charter, all Member States have committed themselves to resolving their international disputes by peaceful means,” the text continued. The Security Council also invites the Secretary-General to keep it informed of developments.
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Guterres met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week and then with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev. Gutterres’ roads paved the way for a joint UN-International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) operation that evacuated some 500 civilians from the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and the besieged Azovstal steelworks last week.
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Russia, which describes its attack on Ukraine as a special military operation, on February 25 vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning the Russian invasion. China, the United Arab Emirates and India abstained. It takes nine votes and no veto of the permanent members, ie the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain, for the resolution to be adopted.
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The UN General Assembly, which has 193 members and where no country has a veto, has in the meantime adopted two resolutions by an overwhelming majority, proving that Moscow finds itself in diplomatic isolation. Although these resolutions are non-binding, they have political weight. In them, the General Assembly condemned the Russian aggression against Ukraine, called on Russian troops to withdraw and called for the protection of civilians. The resolution also blames Russia for the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
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