UN Security Council MeetingUN Mar 15Russia requested a vote in the UN Security Council on its draft humanitarian resolution on Ukraine on March 16, First Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said on his Telegram channel. «We asked for a vote on it (draft resolution — ed.) for tomorrow, March 16» On Tuesday, the Russian Federation submitted a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for «a negotiated ceasefire to ensure the rapid, safe, voluntary and unhindered evacuation of all civilians, emphasizing the need for the parties concerned to agree on humanitarian pauses for this purpose.» The text, seen by RIA Novosti, also states that the UN Security Council requires the full protection of civilians, including humanitarian personnel and persons in vulnerable situations, including women and children.
The UN General Assembly demanded that Russia stop the operation in Ukraine. In addition, the text of the resolution calls not to use civilian infrastructure to deploy military facilities, and not to install them in densely populated areas. Earlier, Mexico and France said they had prepared a humanitarian resolution on Ukraine in the UN Security Council . However, after about two weeks of discussions, the authors decided to transfer the draft to the UN General Assembly, while the resolutions of the UN General Assembly, unlike the resolutions of the Security Council, are not binding. from the Security Council to the UN General Assembly. «Why strange? Because the UN General Assembly does not adopt country-specific humanitarian resolutions and the impact from them for the humanitarian situation on earth is zero, unlike Security Council resolutions. Why crafty? Because the text of the Security Council humanitarian resolution proposed by Paris and Mexico two weeks ago has already been agreed by 99%,” the first deputy representative pointed out. According to him, the project of Mexico and France did not advance solely because of the desire of Western colleagues to saturate it with political elements condemning Russia, “which does not happen in humanitarian resolutions.” «From the very beginning, we emphasized that we would not be against a humanitarian resolution if it was not politicized. However, the desire to condemn Russia from Western colleagues prevailed. Hence the maneuver with the General Assembly, where they can push through any number of anti-Russian amendments. This will be a political show that will in no way affect humanitarian work in Ukraine,» Polyansky said.Russia evacuated almost 260,000 people from Ukraine, he added that the RF draft just consists of the agreed 99%. «Let's see how the Westerners will justify their position on our project — if they support it, it will be a new blatant example of Western» double standards, «Polansky wrote. so that they at least abstain — to pass a resolution, you need to get nine votes in favor, unless, of course, none of the permanent members of the Security Council uses the right of veto,» he added. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to harassment, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To do this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians «Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the R The DPR and LPR groups are developing the offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. in the Ministry of Defense
