Insults, accusations and talk of war crimes and nuclear holocaust dominated the world’s premier diplomatic stage on Thursday.
Tag: Security Council (UN)
North Korea Denies U.S. Claims of Arms Sales to Russia
Pyongyang accused the United States of spreading “reckless” rumors, but added that it had the right to build and export arms.
In U.N. General Assembly Address, Zelensky Says, ‘Russia Should Pay for This War’
“A crime has been committed against Ukraine, and we demand just punishment,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in a recorded speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
U.N. Team Calls for No-Fire Zone at Ukraine Nuclear Plant
In a highly anticipated report, nuclear experts who crossed a battlefield to inspect Europe’s largest nuclear plant called for Russia and Ukraine to halt all military activity around the complex.
Russia’s Unfounded Claims of Secret U.S. Bioweapons Linger On and On
Without providing evidence, the Kremlin is pressing allegations that the U.S. operates labs in Ukraine and beyond. This week, it has called an investigative session in Geneva.
Shelling Threatens Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant, and U.N. Pleads for Access
The chief U.N. nuclear monitor called for an immediate stop to fighting that risks a radiation disaster, as Russians and Ukrainians blamed each other for strikes dangerously close to the reactors.
U.N. Yields to Russia’s Limits on Aid Mission in Syria
Just days earlier, the U.N. Security Council had failed to agree to continue humanitarian assistance to four million Syrians in Idlib Province, after Russia vetoed plans to extend it for one year.
Russia Votes to Shut Down Last U.N. Aid Route Into Syria
Millions of Syrians whose lives have already been shattered by more than a decade of war may be left without food, medicine and other supplies.
The U.N. Security Council Made its First Unanimous Statement on the War
More than two months into the fighting, the body was able to agree on language that got past Russia’s veto power.