UN Security Council sets an emergency meeting on Ukraine

[AntiFascist]

Source: AP News

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting on Ukraine for Wednesday night, just hours after diplomats from dozens of countries took the floor at the General Assembly to deplore Russia’s actions toward the country and plead for diplomacy as fears of a new war in Europe grew.

Citing an “immediate threat of Russian offensive,” Ukraine requested the council session after Russia said that rebels in eastern Ukraine had asked Moscow for military assistance.

The council, where Russia holds the rotating presidency this month, was meeting just two days after another emergency session saw no support for Russia’s decision to recognize two rebel regions of Ukraine as independent and to order Russian troops there for “peacekeeping.”

Council diplomats are now finalizing a draft of a resolution that would declare that Russia is violating the U.N. Charter, international law, and a 2015 council resolution on Ukraine, a diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the discussions were private. The resolution would urge Russia to come back into compliance immediately, the diplomat said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-russia-ukraine-europe-russia-united-nations-31c5af31d2a72163676459d317269b35

[SheltieLover]

1. Kicking for visability

[Beachnutt]

2. And if russia refuses or delays

being compliant what then ?

[AntiFascist]

3. The UN can also impose sanctions...

https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/information

The Security Council can take action to maintain or restore international peace and security under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. Sanctions measures, under Article 41, encompass a broad range of enforcement options that do not involve the use of armed force. Since 1966, the Security Council has established 30 sanctions regimes, in Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, the former Yugoslavia (2), Haiti, Iraq (2), Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Eritrea, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Liberia (3), DRC, Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan, Lebanon, DPRK, Iran, Libya (2), Guinea-Bissau, CAR, Yemen, South Sudan and Mali, as well as against ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida and the Taliban.

Security Council sanctions have taken a number of different forms, in pursuit of a variety of goals. The measures have ranged from comprehensive economic and trade sanctions to more targeted measures such as arms embargoes, travel bans, and financial or commodity restrictions. The Security Council has applied sanctions to support peaceful transitions, deter non-constitutional changes, constrain terrorism, protect human rights and promote non-proliferation.

[Beachnutt]

4. Thanks for sharing this

[AntiFascist]

5. You're welcome...China will need to live up to its foreign minister's statements...

calling for respect of 'territorial integrity.'

[former9thward]

8. The UN can't impose sanctions in this case.

They would be vetoed by Russia and probably China also.

[AntiFascist]

9. I wish that Russia could be suspended or expelled from the Security Council...

but I guess that's not possible under the present rules.

[slightlv]

6. I'm sure Putin is really scared over this. /sarcasm

Putin doesn't care. Doesn't anybody get that? Gods, if nothing else, just compare him to Trump and times 100. He'd just as soon kill everyone in Ukraine and move Muscovites to take their place. Destroy it all to save it. That's Putin's laughing thought. I'm sure he'll accept any treaty or pact, just like Trump would.

And sanctions? What good have they done up to now? And if we really back him into a corner with something that -might- work? What will he do then? And how fast will TPTB backtrack?

I think the two regions, once all Ukrainians who wish to leave are allowed to leave (and then helped to resettle elsewhere in Ukraine) call them independent, for all the good that will do. You can't build a wall to keep Putin out of the rest of Ukraine. But it might give the world community time enough to come up with something that might cause him to sit down and think.

How much of HIS money has sanctions reached? How much of his children's money? Of his family's money... or extended family's? We keep going for the Oligarchy. That is good, I'll agree. Money behind the machine. But Putin is the machine. Time to throw the Sabot into the wheel of machine?

[AntiFascist]

7. I think the main point is to get through to the Russian people...

the one thing Putin fears the most is the call for true democratic change. Unfortunately, China shares that same fear.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. Video, for those who missed it:

LIVE - U.N. Security Council meets on Ukraine
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017714517

[pfitz59]

11. Slow out of the gate

the invasion has begun