Given the progress of the military offensive against Ukraine, Argentina supported the UN’s investigation of Russia for human rights violations on Ukrainian territory, after the invasion.
Consequently, the UN Human Rights Council will create a commission to investigate this country for the crimes committed during his military operation, since Russia does not stop the attacks.
The resolution was adopted with 32 votes in favor, including that of Argentina2 against by Russia and Eritrea, and 13 abstentions by countries such as Venezuela, China and Cuba.
Argentina’s vote was in charge of the director of Human Rights of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, Cecilia Meirovich. This would be the first time in the Council’s history that a resolution directly concerns Russia.
The vote comes after the fire in Zaporizhia, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, in southern Ukraine, as a result of military attacks by the Russian army.
Although the fire was controlled, the entire world remained on edge for several hours, as a radioactive leak could have occurred. About, the russian federation He assured that everything was “a provocation from Ukraine.”
The UN also voted to demand that Russia withdraw its troops.
Just two days before issuing this new resolution, the UN General Assembly meeting in New York approved a resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This, after 141 of the 193 United Nations Member States voted in favor of the initiativewith which it was resolved to require Russia the withdrawal of its troops in Ukraine to end the conflict.
The approved text “deplores in the strongest terms the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine” in violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, which prohibits resorting to the threat or use of force.
