Russia pressured the UN Security Council to vote on a resolution to end the war in Palestine

Oct 15, 2023 - 13:36
Russia pressured the UN Security Council to vote on a resolution to end the war in Palestine
Russia pressured the UN Security Council to vote on a resolution to end the war in Palestine

  Russia has asked the United Nations Security Council to vote on a draft resolution that it proposed calling for an end to attacks on the Gaza Strip and an immediate cessation of hostilities in Palestine. According to the RIA Novosti news agency, the First Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, has announced earlier today that Moscow has proposed a draft resolution to be voted on by the members of the United Nations Security Council. his humanitarian service on the conflict between Palestine and the Zionist regime of Israel. The representative of Russia has added by saying: "we want the draft resolution we proposed to be discussed and voted on by 9:00 p.m. on Monday, October 16". UN Security Council Prior to that, Russia had also proposed a draft resolution to the UN Security Council seeking an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Middle East.

The resolution also emphasizes the need to ensure that humanitarian aid is sent to the region without any hindrance. Early on, Vasiliy Nebenzia, the permanent representative of Russia in the United Nations said, to a large extent, the United States is responsible for worsening the situation in the Middle East. With the Al-Aqsa Hurricane operation entering its ninth day and the resistance fighters achieving an unprecedented victory in the war against the Zionist regime; at the behest of the leaders of Tel Aviv, warplanes of the illegal regime continue to attack the places of people's residences, medical centers, mosques and gathering places of Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip. According to the latest figures released by the Gaza Ministry of Health, the attacks of the Zionist regime in the populated areas of the Strip have caused 2,215 Palestinians to be martyred and 8,714 others injured. The Ministry of Health of Gaza has announced that among the Martyrs, there are 724 children and 458 women.

RIA Novosti news agency