- The 193-member United Nations General Assembly unanimously isolated Russia.
- Members called for a “comprehensive, just, and lasting peace.”
- Russia’s diplomat accused the West of “cowboy” methods and “arm twisting.”
Russia’s senior diplomat to the United Nations accused the West on Sunday of “cowboy” methods and “arm twisting” of some countries during last week’s United Nations General Assembly vote that demanding Moscow withdraw its troops from Ukraine.
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Moscow’s invasion, the 193-member United Nations General Assembly unanimously isolated Russia, calling for a “comprehensive, just, and lasting peace” in accordance with the founding UN Charter.
“The methods of achieving the result are again ‘cowboy’,” Dmitry Polyansky, Russia‘s deputy UN ambassador, said on the Telegram messaging platform.
He went on to say that a number of representatives from “poor” countries had complained to the Russian mission about pressure from their Western counterparts, who are Kyiv’s allies.
“According to our calculations, almost 30 pairs of arms were twisted,” Polyansky said.
Polyansky provided no proof to back up his claims, and there has been no public statement from developing countries about the pressure to vote in favor of the UN resolution.
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