UNITED NATIONS: Over 100 nations, together with India, voted in favour of permitting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to handle the high-level UN Common Meeting session subsequent week by means of a pre-recorded assertion due to his must take care of the warfare following Russia’s invasion.
The 193-member Common Meeting voted Friday on a call to permit Zelenskyy to handle world leaders on the high-level Common Debate by means of a video assertion. The choice was adopted with 101 votes in favour, seven towards, together with Belarus, Cuba, Eritrea, Russia and Syria, and 19 abstentions.
India was among the many 101 nations that voted in favour of the draft resolution.
The doc that was authorized expresses concern that leaders of peace-loving U.N. sovereign nations cannot take part in individual for causes past their management owing to ongoing international invasion, aggression, navy hostilities that don’t permit secure departure from and return to their nations, or the necessity to discharge their nationwide protection and safety duties and capabilities.
The doc permits Zelenskyy to submit a pre-recorded assertion to be performed within the Common Meeting corridor. It stresses that this is not going to set a precedent for future high-level meeting conferences.
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the annual assembly of world leaders on the Common Meeting was all digital in 2020 and hybrid in 2021. However this 12 months the meeting determined that every one speeches have to be in individual.
An modification introduced by Belarus to switch Ukraine with any Member or Observer State dealing with the scenario described above was not adopted because it obtained solely 23 votes in favor, 67 towards and 27 abstentions.
