(Finance) – The UN General Assembly approved with 93 votes in favor there request from the USA to suspend Russia from the Geneva Human Rights Council. In the draft resolution – among which there is also co-sponsor Italy – we ask to “suspend the right of Russia to do part” of the Council expressing “serious concern for the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, in particular due to reports of violations and abuses of international humanitarian law by Moscow ”.
The reply of the Kremlin what they say “sorry“For the qualified majority vote of the General Assembly which today suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, but reiterates that Moscow will continue to” defend itself “on the international stage. President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman told Sky News Uk, Dmitri Peskov. “Russia will continue to defend itself with all legal means” at its disposal, Peskov cut short when asked about it, and to express its point of view with respect to the Ukrainian crisis.
The G7 announced new economic and financial sanctions against Russia, reads a statement.
“We are already working very hard on the next sanctions package. We continue to prepare the next step with the Member States, and at the moment we are looking at oil, to be able to prepare for a phase-out of Russia’s oil.” President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenat a press conference in Stockholm confirming that he will go to Kiev tomorrow to express his opinion “Unshakable support” for Ukraine in the fight against the Russian invasion. “The Ukrainian people deserve our solidarity. That is why I am going to Kiev tomorrow, ”von der Leyen said during a press conference in Stockholm. “I want to send a message of unwavering support to the Ukrainian people and their courageous struggle for our common values ”, he pointed out.
It will be an opportunity to take stock of upcoming initiatives by Brussels, that today the fifth package of sanctions against Russia should be launched even if the approval, already scheduled for yesterday and then postponed to this morning, is further postponed to 18 today, with the probable postponement of the embargo on coal.
Measures that the same Zelensky he criticized as too timid, arguing that “if there is not a really painful package of sanctions against Russia and if there is no supply of the weapons we really need and have asked for many times, this will be considered by the Russia as a allowed to go further and attack.