UNGA: Russia, Leave Ukraine!
The United Nations by a vote of 141 of the 193 member-states voiced its support of a nonbinding, though largely symbolic resolution that demanded that russian invaders cease hostilities and immediately withdraw from Ukraine.
The United Nations General Assembly yesterday, February 23, reiterated “its demand that the Russian Federation immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, and calls for a cessation of hostilities.”
Furthermore, the assembly reaffirmed “its commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, extending to its territorial waters.”
While the resolution is nonbinding, meaning there is no enforcement behind it, it is a significant expression of the global body’s sense of disapproval of #moscow’s brutal aggression against Ukraine that began in earnest 12 months ago today. However, a 73 percent sign of support tells international community that UN member-states loudly oppose russia’s criminal, bloody belligerence.
This is not the first time that the UNGA endorsed such an anti-russian resolution. In the recent past it denounced russia for invading and illegally seizing Crimea in a wholly fabricated referendum.
Citing the principles of the UN Charter as the premise for their resolution, the member-states called on all countries of the world and specifically in this case russia to “refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations, and to settle their international disputes by peaceful means.”
The assembly also reaffirmed that “no territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal,” which includes temporarily occupied Crimea.
The assembly said it deplores the “dire human rights and humanitarian consequences of the aggression” by russia against Ukraine, including the continuous attacks against critical infrastructure across Ukraine “with devastating consequences for civilians, and expressing grave concern at the high number of civilian casualties, including women and children, the number of internally displaced persons and refugees in need of humanitarian assistance, and violations and abuses committed against children.”
As a result if its inhuman brutality, russia is regarded as a war criminal and perpetrator of crimes against humanity, the highest level of global illegality.
The UNGA called for the “complete exchange of prisoners of war, the release of all unlawfully detained persons and the return of all internees and of civilians forcibly transferred and deported, including children,” of which the numbers are in excess of 6,000.
The member-states also demanded an “immediate cessation of the attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine and any deliberate attacks on civilian objects, including those that are residences, schools and hospitals.”
The necessary condemnations of russia’s illegal and bloody actions against Ukraine have again been presented for all to see. What remains to do is what the free world did in 1939 against Nazi Germany and Hitler.
The United Nations by a vote of 141 of the 193 member-states voiced its support of a nonbinding, though largely symbolic resolution that demanded that russian invaders cease hostilities and immediately withdraw from Ukraine.
The United Nations General Assembly yesterday, February 23, reiterated “its demand that the Russian Federation immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, and calls for a cessation of hostilities.”
Furthermore, the assembly reaffirmed “its commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, extending to its territorial waters.”
While the resolution is nonbinding, meaning there is no enforcement behind it, it is a significant expression of the global body’s sense of disapproval of #moscow’s brutal aggression against Ukraine that began in earnest 12 months ago today. However, a 73 percent sign of support tells international community that UN member-states loudly oppose russia’s criminal, bloody belligerence.
This is not the first time that the UNGA endorsed such an anti-russian resolution. In the recent past it denounced russia for invading and illegally seizing Crimea in a wholly fabricated referendum.
Citing the principles of the UN Charter as the premise for their resolution, the member-states called on all countries of the world and specifically in this case russia to “refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations, and to settle their international disputes by peaceful means.”
The assembly also reaffirmed that “no territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal,” which includes temporarily occupied Crimea.
The assembly said it deplores the “dire human rights and humanitarian consequences of the aggression” by russia against Ukraine, including the continuous attacks against critical infrastructure across Ukraine “with devastating consequences for civilians, and expressing grave concern at the high number of civilian casualties, including women and children, the number of internally displaced persons and refugees in need of humanitarian assistance, and violations and abuses committed against children.”
As a result if its inhuman brutality, russia is regarded as a war criminal and perpetrator of crimes against humanity, the highest level of global illegality.
The UNGA called for the “complete exchange of prisoners of war, the release of all unlawfully detained persons and the return of all internees and of civilians forcibly transferred and deported, including children,” of which the numbers are in excess of 6,000.
The member-states also demanded an “immediate cessation of the attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine and any deliberate attacks on civilian objects, including those that are residences, schools and hospitals.”
The necessary condemnations of russia’s illegal and bloody actions against Ukraine have again been presented for all to see. What remains to do is what the free world did in 1939 against Nazi Germany and Hitler.
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