With 100 votes in favour, the United Nations General Assembly approved the resolution requiring Russia to stop the invasion of Ukraine.
The proposal, sponsored by almost 100 countries and promoted by the United States, obtained 35 abstentions and five against Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea and Syria.
Although Mexico was not initially in the list of sponsors, its ambassador Juan Ramón de la Fuente confirmed his support for the resolution, amid criticism of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for not imposing sanctions on the Vladimir Putin regime.
The United Arab Emirates surprised by voting in favor, after having expressed abstention in the Security Council, where Russia vetoed the proposal and obliged the General Assembly, proposed by Mexico, which joined France for a humanitarian resolution on Ukraine.
Among the countries that abstained are Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burundi, China, Congo, Cuba, El Salvador, India, Iran, Iraq, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, among others.
The Russian ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, said that voting against the proposal was a vote in favor of “a peaceful Ukraine (sic) and free from radicalism and neo-Nazism.
Your message came after US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield asked members of the Assembly to vote “yes”, which meant a support that the nations had the right to the sovereignty and integrity of their territories; if they believed that Russia should be held accountable, in addition to the fact that the vote in favor was also an endorsement of the UN Charter.
Although the resolution is not binding, it represents political pressure from 141 nations to Putin to stop his military attack.