The United Nations General Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution on Monday in favor of a reparation mechanism by Russia for the human and material destruction caused by its invasion of Ukraine.
Unlike the Security Council, where Russia has the right of veto, Moscow could not oppose the adoption of this resolution, supported by Ukraine, Canada, the Netherlands and Guatemala, and voted with 94 votes, less than the 143 to condemn the ” illegal annexations”. from Russia on October 12.
Fourteen countries voted against, including Russia, China, Cuba, Mali or Ethiopia, while seventy-three countries abstained, mainly from the African continent, but also from Brazil, Israel and India.
The resolution calls for Russia to be “responsible for any violation” of international law and the UN Charter in Ukraine, and to “assume the legal consequences of all its internationally illegal acts, including reparation for damage” material and human. .
It also establishes “the need” to create, “in cooperation with Ukraine, a redress mechanism” and “an international registry of damages to list (…) evidence and information related to compensation claims” of Ukrainian natural, legal and . .
“The aggressor will pay”
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, welcomed the decision taken at the UN.
“From the liberation of Kherson to the diplomatic victory in New York, the United Nations General Assembly has just given the green light for the creation of a reparation mechanism by Russia for the crimes committed in Ukraine,” he said. Twitter. “The aggressor will pay for what he did!” He added.
At the United Nations headquarters in New York, the Russian representative denounced, on the contrary, a desire by Western countries to legitimize in advance the use of “billions of dollars” of frozen Russian assets to sanction Moscow, even for the purchase of arms from Ukraine.
Source: BFM TV
