India abstained from a procedural vote taken in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to name for a rare distinctive emergency session of the UN General Assembly on Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, even as New Delhi welcomed Moscow and Kyiv’s selection to keep talks at the Belarus border.
The resolution was once adopted with 11 votes in favour, paving the way for the General Assembly to meet on the crisis as quickly as Monday night (India time) or Tuesday morning. India, China and the UAE abstained, while Russia voted in opposition to the resolution.
This will be only the 11th such emergency session of the General Assembly given that 1950.
The 15-nation Security Council met early Monday to maintain the vote on the emergency distinct session of the 193-member General Assembly on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The vote calling for the UNGA session was procedural so none of the 5 permanent participants of the Security Council—China, France, Russia, the UK and the US—could exercising their vetoes.
“It is regrettable that the state of affairs in Ukraine has worsened in addition considering the fact that the Council ultimate convened on this matter,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador T S Tirumurti, stated in the explanation of Monday’s vote.
Tirumurti underlined that “there is no other choice but to return to the course of diplomacy and dialogue.” “We welcome today’s announcement by way of both facets to hold talks at the Belarus border,” he said.
The ambassador stated India continues to be deeply concerned about the security and security of Indian nationals, together with a massive wide variety of Indian students, who are nevertheless stranded in Ukraine.
“Our evacuation efforts have been adversely impacted via the complicated and uncertain state of affairs at the border crossings. It is vital to hold an uninterrupted and predictable movement of people. It is an pressing humanitarian necessity that should be immediately addressed,” he said.
