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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said after the opening of the emergency special session of the UN General Assembly that will decide whether or not to condemn the invasion. Russia to Ukraine, after the failure of the Security Council.

This extraordinary meeting of the 193 members of the United Nations, the first of its kind in 40 years and the eleventh in its history, began with a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the conflict that began on February 24 with the Russian invasion of the United Arab Emirates. Ukraine.

“If Ukraine does not survive, we will not be surprised if democracy fails,” said the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations, Sergei Kiseltsya. “Save the United Nations, save democracy, and stand up for the values ​​we believe in,” he pleaded in a speech.

Preparing a draft resolution

Under the title “Russia’s unjustified armed aggression against Ukraine”, the draft resolution to be put to the vote in the Assembly, which was promoted by the Europeans in coordination with Kyiv and obtained by AFP, condemns in the strongest terms the Russian aggression against Ukraine. .

The text being worked on, which is not binding, condemns the Russian invasion and demands the withdrawal of its forces.

Guterres stated that “war is not the answer” before stressing that “we need peace now.”

The Westerners flatly rejected Russia’s self-defense argument, as well as by the United Nations, which accuses Moscow of violating Article 2 of the UN Charter, which obligates its members to refrain from any threat or use of force to settle a dispute.

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