The UN Security Council votes for the 193-member General Assembly to hold an emergency session on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine tomorrow.
The vote to authorize an emergency meeting is 11 in favor, Russia opposed, with China, India, and the United Arab Emirates abstaining. That was the exact same vote on a resolution Friday demanding that Moscow immediately stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops. But in that case, Russia used its veto and the resolution was defeated.
Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya asks for the General Assembly meeting to be held under the so-called “Uniting for Peace” resolution, initiated by the United States and adopted in November 1950 to circumvent vetoes by the Soviet Union during the Korean War.
That resolution gives the General Assembly the power to call emergency meetings when the Security Council is unable to act because of the lack of unanimity among its five veto-wielding permanent members — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, and France.
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