For the first time so far in war, the Security Council, the highest executive body of the UN, has approved a resolution on the Ukraine War. Presented by the US, the resolution has come forward, with ten favorable votes and five abstentions, those of the European members of the Council (United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Greece and Slovenia) thanks to a conjunction of unpublished interest until Donald Trump returned To the White House: those of the United States and Russia, seconded by China, who have voted together for the first time in decades. A strange result, inconceivable only a few months ago – under the presidency of Democrat Joe Biden – and confirming the Copernican turn on the global stage: Washington and Moscow, trying to carry out their peace plan for Ukraine, but without Ukraine and without the EU . The abstention of European members says a lot, but does not do it out loud: a single veto, of France or the United Kingdom, would have made it derail.
The resolution adopted by the Council, a succinct paragraph entitled The road to peace and that basically asks (“implore”, to be more precise) an immediate end of the conflict and a lasting peace, is an extension in capital letters, by the range of the Council, of the adopted in the morning session by the General Assembly, where They approved the US proposal, and another resolution promoted by Ukraine and the EU. In a different sign, including some irreconcilable differences such as calling “conflict” what for Brussels is war, both obtained practically the same endorsement: 93 votes in favor. The difference is that the resolutions of the plenary are not binding, and those of the Council do: perhaps a future road map for the negotiated solution that, with its back to kyiv and Brussels, study Washington and Moscow.
The proposal approved by the Council establishes an equivalence between Ukraine and Russia: it speaks of the conflict between the two countries and not, as the five European members intended, of “large -scale aggression of Ukraine by the Russian Federation.” The European club presented a motion in this regard, but was rejected, like the rest of the amendments presented. In addition to verifying the divorce between the US and the EU, the clear divergence of the United Kingdom in the face of Washington’s position was not finally substantiated on the veto that many expected, enough to have lying the resolution (“there is no possible equivalence between Ukraine and Russia, ”the British ambassador objected;
The explanations of the countries before the vote also underlined the divergent lines that, with Trump’s return to the White House, have undertaken both the Atlantic. But the most surprising posture, by fervent, almost like convert, was the trust and faith deposited by the US in the UN to end what insists, despite the European objection, in calling “conflict.” “Whole generations of Ukrainians and Russians (sic) have died in three years of war (…) the world is on the edge of the abyss (…) in front of the nuclear threat,” said the US representative in the UN.
On a day of vertigo, history and also hysteria, with multiple procedural vericuetos, the US has spoken through the UN mouth and even more cornered Europe in an intrinsically unitedly linked to the continent cause. In the morning, in a session of the General Assembly – the plenary of the 193 Member States – two drafts of resolution entered collision, one presented by Ukraine and the EU that was negotiated for a month, and another last minute , presented on Friday by the US. The two texts obtained practically the same result, which also allows to verify a tear in the organization. In favor of the American, the representatives of Washington and Moscow also voted together, as usual, as usual in any UN procedure, by the troupes of what the US called Evil Axis: Belarus, Nicaragua, North Korea and The stone in the Hungary shoe, among the 18 votes against. Interestingly, the United States delegation refrained from voting its own text after three amendments presented by the EU were approved.
Shock of resolutions at the UN. , in parallel to the distancing of kyiv and its European allies by the administration of Donald Trump, it has been revealed on Monday in the monographic session that the UN has dedicated to commemorating the third anniversary of the Russian invasion. The day, marked by speeches incompatible with a negotiated solution, such as those who pronounced in the morning the representatives of Ukraine and Russia, it seemed in some moments more a flight forward (USA has reiterated that its resolution speaks to the future, not to past) than an attempt to bring positions. No, of course, those on one and another shore of the Atlantic, increasingly distant.
🔴 Urgent. The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution presented by that it requires that “all its military forces” of Ukraine “immediately and without conditions without conditions
A favor: 93
Against: 18
Abstentions: 65– UN news (@Noticiasonu)
Despite its disdain of multilateralism, the Donald Trump administration now uses the United Nations Global Platform to advance its interests, as if the UN were suddenly the solution to the evils of the world. This follows from the statement of the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, entitled The UN must act to bring peace to Europeand published this weekend.
Rubio underlined the “simple and historical” character of the Washington resolution proposal, which is “consistent with the opinion of President Trump that the UN must return to its founding purpose, enshrined in the United Nations Charter, to maintain the international peace and security, even through the peaceful controversy solution. ” “We urge all Member States [de la ONU] to support her to draw a path to peace, ”said Rubio’s statement. An optimistic statement, if not triumphant, in which the Outdoor holder qualifies as “attainable” the objective of peace.
The Russian ambassador was proved to the UN, Vasili Nebenzia, which in addition to attributing all the responsibility for the conflict to the “internal blow” of the Maidan, the performance of Hitler’s “slender” – in allusion to the proeuropeas authorities of Kiev – And, ultimately, kyiv’s “anti -romous project”, encouraged by Europe, had commendation words for the new administration Republican. In addition to attacking the president of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, echoing, Nebenzia praised “our American colleagues” for “his passage in the right direction,” said Trump’s arrival to the presidency on the US resolution, “Trump’s arrival in the presidency, Trump’s arrival, He stressed before the assembly, has marked a turning point. “Trump has finally seen Zelenski’s true face and has seen that he is not interested in peace, just staying in power, willing to sacrifice the population and.”
The General Assembly adopted six resolutions on war during the first year, denouncing Moscow and demanding Kremlin with the withdrawal of all its troops. A resolution of October 2022, which condemned the “attempt to illegal annexation” by Russia of four regions of Ukraine, obtained the greatest support, with the affirmative vote of 143 states. Unlike those of the Security Council, the resolutions of the General Assembly, where no country has the right of veto, are not binding, but have political weight and reflect world opinion on war. The result of the voting on Monday throws an unprecedented draw between two proposals that pursue very different objectives.
