Kyiv says Moscow exerted pressure on other countries before vote on UN …
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said that Russia was pressurizing other countries into voting against the UN resolution on the territorial integrity of Ukraine at the UN General Assembly.
“We have every reason to speak about Russia’s serious pressure on a number of countries, including those who voted against the resolution,” Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Information Policy Department Yevhen Perebyinis said at a briefing on Friday.
According to him, the fact that many countries who felt this pressure, did not succumb to it and voted against the resolution, is just another confirmation of the international isolation of Russia.
The UN General Assembly voted for the resolution on the territorial integrity of Ukraine at its session on March 27. The passed resolution has an appeal not to recognize any status change of Crimea and Sevastopol based on the referendum held on March 16 and an appeal for the peaceful resolution of the situation and against any unilateral actions aimed at destroying the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
A hundred countries supported the resolution, eleven were against and 58 abstained.
The resolution was voted against by Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.