The UN Security Council is due to vote on Sunday to convene a rare emergency special session of the 193-member UN. The General Assembly on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will be held on Monday, diplomats said.
Voting by the 15 members is procedural, so none of the five permanent members of the council – Russia, China, France, Britain and the United States – can exercise their vetoes. The measure needs nine votes in favor and is likely to pass, diplomats said.
Only 10 of these special sessions General Assembly emergency meetings have been convened since 1950.
The call for a session on Ukraine comes after Russia on Friday vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution that would have deplored the invasion of Moscow. China, India and the United Arab Emirates abstained, while the remaining 11 members voted in favour.
The General Assembly is expected to vote on a similar resolution after several days of declarations by countries at the special emergency session, diplomats said. General Assembly resolutions are not binding but carry political weight.
The United States and allies are seeking as much support as possible to show that Russia is isolated internationally.
The UN The General Assembly adopted a resolution in March 2014 following the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region. The resolution, which declared a referendum on the situation in Crimea invalid, received 100 votes in favor and 11 against. Two dozen countries did not vote and 58 abstained.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday, saying the world body plans to “increase humanitarian assistance to the people of Ukraine,” a UN statement said, a spokesperson said.
“He informed the president that the United Nations would on Tuesday launch an appeal to fund our humanitarian operations in Ukraine,” the spokesman said in a statement.
Aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Friday that more than $1 billion will be needed for relief operations in Ukraine over the next three months as hundreds of thousands of people are on the move after Russia invaded their country. neighbor.
Source: CNN Brasil
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