For First Time- India Votes Against Russia in UNSC During Procedural Vote on Ukraine

For First Time- India Votes Against Russia in UNSC During Procedural Vote on Ukraine

Subject : International relations

Section: International organisation

Context:

India for the first time on Wednesday voted against Russia during a procedural vote at the United Nations Security Council on Ukraine, as the 15-member powerful UN body invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to address a meeting through a video conference.

• India currently is a non-permanent member of the UNSC for a two-year term, which ends in December.
• As the meeting began, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vassily A. Nebenzia requested a procedural vote concerning the Ukrainian President’s participation in the meeting by video conference.
• Following statements by him and Ferit Hoxha of Albania, the Council extended an invitation to Zelensky to participate in the meeting via video conference by a vote of 13 in favour to one against. Russia voted against such an invitation, while China abstained.
• Zelensky alleged that Russia has placed the world on the brink of nuclear catastrophe by turning the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant into a war zone. The plant has six reactors only one exploded at Chernobyl and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must take permanent control of the situation as soon as possible, he said.

Zaporizhzhia , UNSC and IAEA already covered