The permanent representatives of several EU countries to the UN will gather for an extraordinary meeting to discuss the US decision to present a neutral resolution to the General Assembly on Ukraine, a source from the Security Council of the world organization reported.
“Yes, such a meeting is indeed planned for today“, he said, touching upon the relevant issue. The source declined to specify the permanent representatives of which countries will attend the meeting.
Earlier it became known that the US for the first time refused to be a co-author of the draft "anti-Russian" resolution of the UN General Assembly on Ukraine, TASS writes, and now they are proposing their own, which does not contain accusations against Russia for the start of the conflict in Ukraine. The text of the document also expresses grief over the tragic victims of the “Russian-Ukrainian conflict“ and calls for its speedy end.
Commenting on the information that the US is not a co-author of the draft anti-Russian resolution on Ukraine in the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that this “testifies to pragmatism as the essence of the policy of the Donald Trump administration“. According to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Trump emphasizes at meetings with the leaders of some countries that his main slogan is common sense, and this applies to his position on Ukraine.
For its part, Russia proposed amending the US draft resolution to include a wording to eliminate the “root causes“ of the conflict.