UNITED NATIONS: Marking one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly will vote next week on a draft resolution stressing 'the need to reach, as soon as possible,
, the United Nations General Assembly will vote next week on a draft resolution stressing"the need to reach, as soon as possible, a comprehensive, just and lasting peace" in line with the founding UN Charter.
Ukraine and its supporters hope to deepen Russia's diplomatic isolation by seeking yes votes from nearly three-quarters of the General Assembly to match - if not better - the support received for several resolutions last year. Russia's Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy declined to comment on the draft resolution, which member states received on Wednesday.
The Security Council has instead held dozens of meetings on Ukraine in the past year and will again discuss the war next Friday at a ministerial gathering. Diplomats said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is unlikely to travel to New York.General Assembly resolutions are not legally-binding but carry political weight.
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