UN's major bodies both meet on Ukraine
Published Date: 2/28/2022
Source: PIX11 News
Ukraine's envoy is telling the U.N. General Assembly that if his country doesn't survive, international peace won't survive and democracy could fail. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya spoke Monday as the General Assembly held a rare emergency session in a day of frenzied and sometimes fractious diplomacy at the U.N. about war. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia retorted by complaining that his country's actions “are being distorted and thwarted.” As Russian and Ukrainian officials held talks on the Belarus border, the General Assembly and the more powerful U.N. Security Council met to discuss the war. In a sign of the tension permeating the diplomatic discourse, the council meeting opened with the news that the United States was kicking out 12 Russian U.N. diplomats