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UN General Assembly to vote on isolating Russia
Global News
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The United Nations (UN) General Assembly re-convene for a third day on Wednesday for an expected vote on whether to isolate Russia by "deploring its aggression against Ukraine" and demanding Moscow withdraw its troops and stop fighting.
The draft resolution is similar to a text vetoed by Russia in the 15-member Security Council on Friday, but no country has a veto in the General Assembly. Western diplomats expect the resolution, which needs two-thirds support, to be adopted.
General Assembly resolutions are non-binding, but they do carry political weight. On Tuesday, several countries expressed support for the resolution.
Ceasefire talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials began on the Belarusian border on Monday as Russia faces deepening economic isolation.
On Monday, Ukraine’s UN Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya described Putin’s order to put Russian nuclear forces on alert as suicidal.
“If he wants to kill himself he doesn’t have to use a nuclear arsenal, he has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in 1945,” Kyslytsya told the General Assembly, referencing Adolf Hitler’s suicide.
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