The draft resolution presented to the UN General Assembly, cosponsored by 70 nations, condemning the incorporation of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into the Russian Federation, as a gross violation of the UN Charter and International Law, was approved today in a vote of 143-5 with 35 abstentions. Voting with Russia were Syria, North Korea, Nicaragua and Belarus. Among those abstaining were China, India, South Africa and Pakistan, as well as 17 African nations plus nations of Central Asia, Asia and Ibero-America.
Mexico, Brazil and Argentina voted for the draft resolution, but the globalists must have been disappointed not to have succeeded in twisting the arms of India and South Africa.
China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN Gang Shuang explained that China abstained because it didn’t feel that the resolution was helpful. “Any action taken by the General Assembly should be conducive to the de-escalation of the situation, to be conducive to the early resumption of dialogue and should be conducive to the promotion of a political solution to this crisis,” he said.
In the course of debate over the past few days, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia denounced the entire proceedings as fraudulent and so politicized that there was no room for honest discussion. He pointed out that all those who are framing the discussion in terms of defending the “core values” of the UN Charter, lamenting Russia’s alleged violations, have in fact “disregarded it for years, trying to replace it with a ‘rules-based order.’ “
