UNITED NATIONS: Over 100 international locations, together with India, voted in favour of permitting Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to deal with the high-level UN Common Meeting consultation subsequent week via a pre-recorded commentary as a result of his wish to maintain the warfare following Russia’s invasion.

The 193-member Common Meeting voted Friday on a call to permit Zelenskyy to deal with global leaders on the high-level Common Debate via a video commentary. The verdict was once followed with 101 votes in favour, seven in opposition to, together with Belarus, Cuba, Eritrea, Russia and Syria, and 19 abstentions.

India was once some of the 101 international locations that voted in favour of the draft choice.

The report that was once licensed expresses worry that leaders of peace-loving U.N. sovereign international locations can not take part in particular person for causes past their keep an eye on owing to ongoing international invasion, aggression, army hostilities that don’t permit protected departure from and go back to their international locations, or the wish to discharge their nationwide protection and safety tasks and purposes.

The report allows Zelenskyy to post a pre-recorded commentary to be performed within the Common Meeting corridor. It stresses that this is not going to set a precedent for long run high-level meeting conferences.

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the yearly assembly of global leaders on the Common Meeting was once all digital in 2020 and hybrid in 2021. However this yr the meeting determined that each one speeches will have to be in particular person.

An modification offered by means of Belarus to exchange Ukraine with any Member or Observer State going through the location described above was once no longer followed because it gained simplest 23 votes in prefer, 67 in opposition to and 27 abstentions.

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