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UNSC set to meet, call for General Assembly emergency session

27 February 2022 16:38 GMT

The United Nations Security Council will meet at 3 pm (EST) on Sunday to call for a rare emergency special session of the UN General Assembly on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The 193-member UNGA session would be held on Monday, diplomats said.

The resolution to call this meeting is procedural and requires only nine votes and cannot be vetoed.

Only 10 such emergency special sessions of the General Assembly have been convened since 1950.

The request for a session on Ukraine comes after Russia vetoed on Friday a draft UNSC resolution that would have deplored Moscow's invasion. China, India and UAE abstained, while the remaining 11 members voted in favour.

"The use of force by one country against another is wrong & against the Charter," Sergiy Kyslytsya, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, said in a post on Sunday. 

"Today’s defending Ukraine is defending the Charter."