India Abstains From Voting On Russia-Led UNSC Resolution On Ukraine
No country voted against the resolution, which made no reference to the invasion
Mumbai: India abstained from United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on a vote on a draft resolution by Russia on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine on Wednesday.
The resolution had called for the protection of civilians and a negotiated ceasefire for enabling their evacuation, without mentioning Russia’s role in the ongoing crisis.
India, along with 12 other UNSC members, left to vote on a resolution that demanded: “Citizens, including humanitarian personnel and persons in vulnerable situations, including women and children are fully protected, calls for a negotiated ceasefire for enabling safe, rapid, voluntary and unhindered evacuation of civilians, and underscores the need for the parties concerned to agree on humanitarian pauses to this end.”
No country voted against the resolution, which made no reference to the invasion.
Other members of the Security Council made statements after voting on the resolution, which India abandoned. On earlier occasions, India did not participate in voting on resolutions twice in the Security Council and once in the General Assembly on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The United States said it was “inconsistent” that Russia has the courage to come up with a resolution that calls on the international community to resolve the humanitarian crisis Russia has created.
“The United States intends to abstain on this text because, to state the obvious, Russia does not care about the deteriorating humanitarian conditions or the millions of lives and dreams the war has shattered. If they cared, they would stop fighting. Russia is the aggressor, the attacker, the invader – the sole party in Ukraine engaged in a campaign of brutality against the people of Ukraine – and they want us to pass a resolution that does not acknowledge their culpability,” US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.
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