United Nations General Assembly passed the resolution on Ukraine proposed by the West with a 143:5 vote, and did not recognize the results of the "referendum" in the four places in eastern Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Minister bluntly stated that this is the result of pressure from Western countries.
According to Global Network , on October 12 local time, the United Nations General Assembly held a meeting and passed a non-legal binding resolution, not recognizing the results of the referendum of Donetsk , Lugansk , Zaporoze , and Khlsson . According to previous Russian media reports, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporoze and Khlsson held a "referendum to Russia" from September 23 to 27. According to the published voting results, the approval ratings of "entering Russia" in these four regions are 99.23%, 98.42%, 93.11% and 87.05% in turn. Immediately afterwards, on September 30 local time, Russian President Putin signed a treaty to join Russia with the leaders of the above four places in Kremlin . On October 5, Putin approved the treaty of the four places to join the Russian Federation as federal entities, and signed relevant legal documents to accept the above four places to join Russia. At this point, all the legal procedures for entering Russia in the four regions have been completed. Obviously, both Ukraine and Western countries will definitely not accept this result, so Western countries led by the United States proposed a draft resolution that condemned the "referendum of entry into Russia" in four places including Donetsk.
Regarding the voting results of the United Nations General Assembly, US President Biden html issued a statement on this on the 212th, praising the "143 countries that voted for the resolution to stand on the side of freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity." However, some US media pointed out that under the vigorous lobbying of the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union , 143 countries voted in favor of the resolution. Although the result was "exceeded expectations", before the vote, US and EU diplomats conducted fierce lobbying against India and South Africa, but ultimately failed to change their vote. On the other side, Russia, as the party involved, is naturally strongly dissatisfied with this. On October 13, local time, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov bluntly stated in a TV program, "Western countries shamelessly used diplomatic terrorist means, openly manipulated, and threatened developing countries with various sanctions. This result was achieved through open intimidation and threats. Americans claimed that they did not persuade anyone and that everyone voted on their own, which is a lie." In addition, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Nirvana said frankly on the 12th that this political and openly provocative document not only ignores the turnout, percentage and the fact that foreign observers recognize the referendum, but also has hostile accusations, which may undermine any efforts conducive to resolving the Ukrainian crisis through diplomatic channels. This resolution has nothing to do with the maintenance of international law and UN Charter . Western countries hope to achieve their own geopolitical goals through this resolution. In addition, Russia's first deputy representative to the United Nations Polyansky posted a statement on a social platform on the 12th that about 40 countries had not withstand the pressure from the West and were forced to surrender before the vote, but many of them had apologized to Russia in advance for this.
It is understood that in this vote, 143 countries voted for support, Russia, Belarus and other five countries voted against, and 35 countries including China and India abstained. Regarding the reasons for casting abstention, Geng Shuang, deputy representative of China to the United Nations, stated in , when elaborating on the position of the UN General Assembly, that any action taken by the UN General Assembly should be conducive to promoting the easing and cooling of the situation, promoting the early resumption of dialogue, and promoting the political resolution of the crisis. The relevant draft resolution submitted to this emergency special UN General Assembly vote will not help achieve the above goals. Therefore, the Chinese delegation will abstain from the draft. In addition, Geng Shuang also pointed out that the implementation of the work of the UN General Assembly should abide by the Rules of Procedure and should reflect fairness and justice. Regarding procedural issues, the opinions of Member States should be fully expressed and the motions of Member States should be taken equally.
It is worth mentioning that shortly before the UN General Assembly passed the resolution, Russia and Western countries had differences on the voting methods.Russia believes that in view of the "huge pressure" put on other member states by the United States and its allies, Russia hopes that the United Nations General Assembly will consider conducting a secret ballot. However, before the debate on October 10, Albania violated the procedural norms and made a proposal for a public vote on the resolution, which the United Nations General Assembly accepted. At that time, Nebian Jia believed that the decision made by the UN General Assembly was a naked manifestation of "double standards".
