Deputy Parubia reproached Belarus for “stabbing Ukraine in the back” during voting in the UN committee
Deputy head of the Ukrainian parliament Irina Gerashchenko, representing the country at the negotiations in Minsk, commented on the results of the vote in the UN committee for the Ukrainian draft resolution on human rights in Crimea.
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Gerashchenko herself wrote about this on social networks.
“Today the trip to Minsk is especially difficult. On Tuesday, the UN Third Committee voted on an updated, tough and very important resolution on the human rights situation in occupied Crimea. FOR – more than 70 countries, almost the same number abstained. Only 25 are against. Among them is Belarus. Together with the Russian Federation, of course,” she wrote.
At the same time, the politician reacted harshly to the fact that Belarus voted against the Ukrainian draft resolution, finding itself, together with the Russian Federation, among the minority of 25 countries that did not support Ukraine. Gerashchenko called the vote of the Belarusian delegation a “knife in the back” of Ukraine.
“This is not a neutral position, but a very specific one. Neutral countries at least abstained; Belarus again lacked “neutrality” for a position different from the Russian Federation. But at the same time, Minsk lays claim to certain peacekeeping laurels, noting that it is creating a neutral platform for negotiations on Donbass. I, as a Ukrainian politician and as a participant in the negotiations in the Minsk groups, regard yesterday’s vote of the Belarusian delegation in the UN Third Committee on the resolution on Crimea as contrary to loud statements about neutrality. This is the second knife in the back of Ukraine. After a similar vote last year. I stated my position as diplomatically as possible; I don’t think it is possible to remain silent,” she added.
“We would like to see at least neutrality from those countries that loudly declare their neutrality, whose citizens are represented in the OSCE SMM mission and who want to join the peacekeeping mission in Donbass,” summed up the Ukrainian vice speaker.
Gerashchenko also thanked the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UN Vladimir Yelchenko and Majlis leaders Mustafa Dzhemilev and Akhtem Chiygoz, who, according to her, “did a lot to promote the Ukrainian resolution.”
She added that the vote on this fundamentally important resolution for Ukraine in the UN General Assembly will take place in December this year.
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