Khushi Doshi
Published On: February 28, 2022 at 14:03 IST
The Security Council’s 15 members met early Monday to vote on the 193-member General Assembly’s Emergency Special Session on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Even as New Delhi welcomed Moscow and Kiev’s decision to hold talks at the Belarus border, India abstained from a procedural vote in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to call for a rare special emergency session of the UN General Assembly on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
Even as New Delhi welcomed Moscow and Kiev’s decision to hold talks at the Belarus border, India abstained from a procedural vote in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to call for a rare special emergency session of the UN General Assembly on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
This will be only the 11th such emergency session of the General Assembly since 1950.
The 15-member Security Council met early Monday to vote on the 193-member General Assembly’s emergency special session on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Because the vote to convene the UNGA was procedural, none of the Security Council’s five permanent members—China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—could exercise their vetoes.
“It is regrettable that the situation in Ukraine has deteriorated further since the Council last convened on this matter,” India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador TS Tirumurti, said in a statement explaining Monday’s vote.
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