Go to the media bank The emblem of the United Nations (UN) on the building of the UN office. File photoUN, Oct 13About 40 countries could not withstand pressure from the West before voting in the UN General Assembly on an anti-Russian draft resolution that does not recognize referendums in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, wrote on his Telegram channel. votes from those who voted for and against. Abstentions and those who did not vote were not counted. 143 countries voted for the resolution, against were the Russian Federation, Belarus, North Korea, SAR, Nicaragua. 35 countries abstained. Earlier, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said that the United States and its allies carried out an unprecedented campaign of blackmail and «arm-twisting» against the countries of the «global South» to vote for the resolution.
