The UN Security Council will vote this Friday on a resolution condemning the referendums held in four Ukrainian regions, which paved the way for the annexation of these territories by Russia.
The meeting will take place at 3:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. in Lisbon), before another debate on the leaks discovered in the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, reported the French presidency of the Council.
The resolution prepared by the United States and Albania, whose specific content has not yet been made public, must be rejected, since Russia has the right of veto as a permanent member of the Security Council.
If the resolution is vetoed, it will go to the UN General Assembly, where the vast majority of countries have condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk (east) and Kherson and Zaporizhia (south) held, between September 23 and 27, referendums in which the majority of voters supported separation from Ukraine and accession to the Russian Federation.
The leaders of the four regions approached the Kremlin leader this week to ask Putin to authorize their urgent entry into the Russian Federation.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of Kherson and Zaporizhia, a step forward from Russia’s annexation of these territories.
According to the Russian presidency, Putin will formalize this Friday, during a solemn ceremony in the Kremlin, the annexation of the four Ukrainian territories with the signing of the corresponding treaties.
Next week, both houses of the Russian Parliament will approve the accession, after which Putin will enact it, as happened in 2014 with the annexation of the Crimean peninsula.
In Crimea, a referendum considered illegal by the West was also organized eight years ago, after which independence was proclaimed and then the territory annexed by Russia.
The separatist consultations in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia have been condemned by kyiv and the West, who describe the referendums as “democratic farces”.
In the case of Kherson, a region that borders the annexed Crimean peninsula, more than 87% of voters supported Russian annexation, while more than 93% of the participants in Zaporizhia supported this option, according to pro-Russian sources.
The Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (UN), António Guterres, warned Russia on Thursday that the annexation of Ukrainian territories “will have no legal value and deserves to be condemned”, stressing that “it cannot be reconciled with the international legal”. “. “.
The European Commission proposed this Wednesday an eighth package of sanctions against Russia, in the face of the “new escalation” of the Kremlin in its aggression against Ukraine, with the celebration of “fraudulent referendums”, partial mobilizations and the threat of resorting to nuclear weapons.
Source: TSF
