Four States only – Belarus, Syria, Eritrea and North Korea – supported Russia in the vote of the United Nations General Assembly.
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The United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, March 2, a resolution “requires that Russia immediately cease to resort to the force against Ukraine”, in a massively approved vote by 141 countries, five Opposing and thirty-five, including China, abstaining, out of the 193 members in the international organization. The five countries that voted against are Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea and Syria.
The resolution, voted after more than two days of debates and interventions, claim that Russia “immediately removes, completely and without conditions all its military forces” from Ukraine and “condemns the decision of Russia to accentuate the alert of its nuclear forces “.
In addition to North America and Europe, the resolution has benefited from a favorable vote of many African states and a vast majority of Latin American countries. China, India and Pakistan abstained.
The resolution at the General Assembly was inspired by a text rejected last week to the UN Security Council due to a veto posed by Russia. It is not legally binding, but has a major political impact.