{"id":1348811,"date":"2022-02-28T09:37:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T14:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1348811"},"modified":"2022-02-28T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T14:38:03","slug":"u-n-to-address-ukraine-crisis-in-emergency-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-to-address-ukraine-crisis-in-emergency-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. to Address Ukraine Crisis in Emergency General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-n-to-address-ukraine-crisis-in-emergency-general-assembly%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1348811&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) has voted to hold a rare emergency special session of the General Assembly to debate the crisis engulfing Ukraine after Russia\u2019s invasion. The meeting is set down for Monday at U.N. headquarters in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Any resolutions agreed at the General Assembly will be non-binding, however the U.S. is looking to build on the 100 countries that voted to condemn Russia over its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2014\/03\/17\/crimea-declares-independence-seizes-ukraine-property-and-disbands-ukraine-military\/\">annexation<\/a> of Crimea in 2014.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>All 193 members of the global body will be given the chance to speak. Any that choose to do so will defy Russia after it voted against the resolution, but under U.N. regulations it did not have veto power to derail the referral of the war to the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure is allowed under a 1950 resolution called \u201cUniting for Peace\u201d and echoes growing international calls elsewhere for action to be taken sooner not later against Russia\u2019s unprovoked aggression.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\">Ashley Oliver \/ Breitbart News<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It allows for members of the Security Council to take over the General Assembly for a special session if the five permanent members \u2014 Russia, the United States, Britain, France and China \u2014 fail to agree among themselves to act together to maintain peace.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>It will just be the 11th such session that the assembly has held, according to diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>The day-long diplomatic exchange is expected to highlight the extent of Russia\u2019s isolation in the international community over the deadly invasion of its neighbour.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20043922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238816106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20043922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238816106-835x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya holds up a paper while addressing the United Nations Security Council meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York City on February 27, 2022. (ANDREA RENAULT\/AFP\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe council members who supported this resolution recognize that this is no ordinary moment,\u201d said U.S. ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, AFP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220227-un-votes-to-hold-emergency-general-assembly-session-on-ukraine\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are issues that affect all member states and now in the General Assembly they can all make their voices heard on Russia\u2019s war of choice,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s session will start at 10:00 am in New York (1500 GMT) and is expected to last at least all day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>It will go on as fighting continues across a number of fronts and the human cost of Russia\u2019s aggression is exposed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The government of Ukraine claimed on Friday that Vitaly Skakun, a Marine battalion engineer, gave his life while destroying a bridge to prevent Russian tanks from advancing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OLt2xOiHQC\">https:\/\/t.co\/OLt2xOiHQC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1497759411841941512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The session comes after last week\u2019s UNSC meeting where Ukraine made an ambitious effort to have Russia ejected from the U.N. entirely.<\/p>\n<p>On that occasion it argued Vladimir Putin\u2019s government did not legally acquire the seat formerly held by the Soviet Union, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/02\/24\/ukraine-asks-united-nations-to-kick-russia-out\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>AFP contributed to this story<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) has voted to hold a rare emergency special session of the General Assembly to debate the crisis engulfing Ukraine after Russia\u2019s invasion. 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