Yevgeny Magda
A resolution, approved by the Third Committee of the
UN General Assembly, was a real diplomatic victory for Ukraine. EU Council
supported visa liberalization for Ukraine, dialectically linking its start with
setting up a visa waiver suspension mechanism. Donald Trump continues to shape
his administration and communicate with the world leaders. Moldova has chosen a
pro-Russian president. Alexander Lukashenko delivers a confusing speech.
Resolution on human rights situation in Crimea and
Sevastopol, adopted by the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly and
supported by 73 of its members (with 23 opposed it and 76 abstained), has
become a real victory for Ukrainian diplomacy. It cements the status of the
Russian Federation as an occupier state and emphasizes that the Crimean
peninsula belongs to Ukraine.
It should be recalled that, in contrast to March 2014,
when it was about the support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine, the
topic of human rights is a very sensitive issue for many countries. Knowing
this, Russia had made significant efforts to prevent the resolution from
passing the committee, using Belarus as a battering ram.
Although the UN General Assembly resolutions see no
direct mechanism of implementation, they are a public expression of the
position of the world community on important issues.
It is also worth mentioning that the prosecutor of the
International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, in a report recognized the events
in Crimea in February-March 2014 an international military conflict, forcing
Russia to quickly cease cooperation with the ICC.
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