For lack of allies, Russia refuses to vote on UN resolution

Moscow is more isolated than ever at the UN. Russia withdrew from a vote in the UN Security Council on Friday on a resolution regarding the war in Ukraine due to a lack of support from its closest allies, diplomats told AFP on Thursday.

“They called for co-authorship” for their text, which they said was focused on humanitarian issues, “and there was no going back,” the ambassador said, speaking on condition of anonymity, suggesting that neither China nor India backed the controversial Russian initiative and would not have voted for him.

Russia confirmed its refusal Thursday during an emergency meeting of the Security Council demanded by the West. “We decided not to vote” on this resolution on Friday, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya told the Security Council on Friday, not looking at his colleagues, his eyes fixed on its text.

“War crimes”

Russia has previously faced backlash from several members of the Security Council over its humanitarian text initiative “condemning attacks on civilians” and calling for the protection of civilians to ensure their exit from Ukrainian cities.

This is “the greatest hypocrisy the size of Russia” and “should be in the Guinness Book of Records,” said Albanian Ambassador Ferit Hoxha, as Russia is accused of blowing up a maternity hospital and then a theater in Mariupol. The war made “three million refugees in three weeks,” equivalent to the population of all of Albania, he stressed.

The perpetrators of war crimes in Ukraine will be “answered” to international justice, for their part, the G7 foreign ministers warned in a joint statement, stressing that the “gathering of evidence” continues.

Other points from Blinken, Moscow risks:
– Carry out a chemical attack, then blame Kyiv and use this excuse to escalate
– Bring paramilitary + foreign mercenaries
– kidnap + favorites
– “significant” efforts in negotiationspic.twitter.com/fepLAuPUUd

— Philip Berry (@ptiberry) March 17, 2022

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Accusation made by the head of American diplomacy: “Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime. After so much destruction in the past three weeks, it’s hard for me to conclude that the Russians are doing anything else besides this,” Anthony Blinken said on Thursday. Referring to ongoing negotiations between Kiev and Moscow, the US Secretary of State felt that Russia had not yet shown “significant effort” and said he feared a chemical attack from Moscow, which he said could then hold Kyiv responsible. to justify the escalation.