UN General Assembly resumes special session on Ukraine
The special session will aim to consider a resolution condemning the referendums held in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, as well as in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions on joining Russia
The UN General Assembly on Monday resumed its special session on Ukraine at the organization’s headquarters in New York.
The special session will aim to consider a resolution condemning the referendums held in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, as well as in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions on joining Russia. The vote on the document is expected to be preceded by a debate that will last several days. The exact date of the vote hasn’t been specified. However, it’s planned that it will take place before the end of this week.
As of now, representatives of 67 countries have expressed their desire to speak at the meeting. It’s expected that the meeting will be opened by General Assembly President Csaba Korosi, then Ukraine will submit the resolution, Russia will take the floor afterward, which will be followed by speeches of representatives of other countries. The list is open, meaning that representatives of the countries that haven’t yet signed up to speak could still add their names to the list of speakers.
As of now, the speakers include representatives of the UK, Germany, China, Saudi Arabia, the US, Turkey, France, Azerbaijan and Latvia, among others.
The special session of the UN General Assembly was convened at the end of February. Then its participants adopted a resolution on the situation in Ukraine, which had earlier been blocked by Russia in the Security Council. On March 2, it adopted a resolution condemning Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. At the end of March, the special session resumed its work and adopted a new resolution on humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.
A special session of the UN General Assembly may meet an unlimited number of times to consider issues within its mandate, which in this case is the situation in Ukraine.
