Emergency session of the UN Security Council
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This is how world politics is reacting to the escalation in the Ukraine conflict
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The UN Security Council at its emergency meeting in New York.
Photo: AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY
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New York The UN Security Council held an emergency session in New York following Russian President Putin’s announcement that he would send “peacekeeping forces” to Ukraine’s embattled east. We summarize the reactions of the states.
the USA sharply criticized Russia. “They call them peacekeepers,” US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told Russia. “This is utter nonsense. We know what they really are.”
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The order to send Russian troops to the contested east of Ukraine is a first step towards a complete invasion. “Furthermore, this move by President Putin is clearly the basis for Russia’s attempt to create a pretext for another invasion of Ukraine,” Thomas-Greenfield said. Putin “tore to pieces” the Minsk agreement with his recognition of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
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He dreams of a Russian empire, said Thomas-Greenfield. “Putin wants the world to go back in time, to before the United Nations, to a time when empires ruled the world – but the rest of the world has moved forward. It’s not 1919, it’s 2022.” History teaches that the countries of the world should not look the other way in such a situation. It is an attack on every UN member state. The ambassador announced serious consequences for Moscow.
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Previously they had too United Nations officially responded. UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo said at the opening of the emergency session that the UN “deeply regrets” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to “deploy troops in eastern Ukraine.” “The next few hours and days will be critical. The danger of a major conflict is real and must be avoided at all costs,” she urged at the meeting, convened at the request of Western members of the Security Council.
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In view of a possible war with Russia, the Ukraine conjured up resistance before the United Nations. “We will stand firm. We are on our own ground. We are not afraid of anything or anyone. We don’t owe anyone anything and we don’t give anyone anything,” Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UN, Serhiy Kyslytsia, said at the emergency meeting. It’s “not February 2014. It’s February 2022,” he said, referring to Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
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Russia has threatened Ukraine with further consequences. Kiev has “military plans” and would shell and provoke Luhansk and Donetsk. After Moscow’s recognition, this “could have extremely dangerous consequences,” Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebensia said at the meeting. “We do not intend to allow a new bloodbath in Donbass.” But he also asserted: “We remain open to diplomacy for a diplomatic solution.”
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The ambassador blamed the Ukrainian leadership for the escalation. Kiev’s refusal to negotiate directly with the separatists showed that it did not want to fulfill the Minsk agreement. To avoid war, Ukraine must now be forced to end its provocations.
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From the perspective of Germany Russia has revealed its true intentions in the region through the deployment order. “Russia has repeatedly insisted that it is not involved in the (Ukraine) conflict. Today it has been unmasked and shows that it always was,” said German Ambassador to the UN Antje Leendertse ahead of the emergency meeting. Together with the allies, Germany will take “decisive and appropriate measures” to respond to Russia’s violation of international law. This will have serious economic, political and geostrategic consequences.
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Even Japan Condemns Russia’s actions as unacceptable and contrary to international law. That said Head of State Fumio Kishida. If Russia invades Ukraine, Japan will join forces with its international allies and prepare a strong response, including sanctions.
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China has called on all those involved in the Ukraine conflict to exercise restraint. “All parties concerned must exercise restraint and avoid anything that could fuel tensions,” Chinese Ambassador to the UN Zhang Jun said ahead of the emergency meeting. “We believe that all countries should resolve international disputes through peaceful means consistent with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.”
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Great Britain fears a humanitarian disaster if Russia invades Ukraine. “An invasion of Ukraine will unleash the forces of war, death and destruction against the people of Ukraine. The humanitarian impact will be terrible for civilians fleeing the fighting,” British Ambassador to the UN Barbara Woodward said at the emergency meeting. Women and children would suffer the most. “Russia has brought us to the abyss. We call on Russia to take a step back.”
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