Letter dated 28 February 2014 from the Everlasting Consultant of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Safety Council (S/2014/136).
In its third emergency assembly on Ukraine this week, Russia vetoed a Safety Council draft decision right this moment (25 Feb) that might have condemned the Russian Federation’s aggression towards Ukraine.
Following the vote, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield stated, “you’ll be able to veto this decision, however you can’t veto our voices. You can’t veto the reality. You can’t veto our rules. You can’t veto the Ukrainian folks. You can’t veto the UN Constitution, and you’ll not veto accountability.”
China’s Ambassador Zhang Jun pressured that “confronted with a extremely complicated and delicate scenario, the Safety Council ought to make a essential response,” however added that “such a response must also be taken with nice warning.”
All actions, he stated, “must be actually conducive to defusing the disaster moderately than including gasoline to fireplace” and cautioned that “imposing sanctions in could solely result in extra casualties, extra property loss, a extra difficult and chaotic scenario and extra difficulties in bridging variations. It could utterly shut the door to a peaceable answer.”
Addressing Council members, Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya stated, “you may have made Ukraine a pawn in your geopolitical recreation with no concern by any means concerning the curiosity of the Ukrainian folks. Accountability for what’s transpiring at current lies not solely with the Ukrainian authorities, nevertheless it additionally lies at your ft, women and gents. And right this moment’s draft decision, your draft decision is nothing aside from one more brutal inhumane transfer on this Ukrainian chessboard.”
For his half, Ukraine’s Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya stated, “final evening was essentially the most horrific for Kiev since, simply think about, 1941 when it was attacked by Nazis. Final evening was attacked by somebody who pretends they’re combating with Neo-Nazism. Due to this fact, I am not stunned as Russia voted towards. Russia is eager on persevering with its Nazi fashion plan of action.”
Eleven international locations voted in favour of the decision whereas three international locations — China, India and the United Arab Emirates — abstained from voting.
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