UNGA passes resolution calling for immediate end to hostilities between Ukraine and Russia

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United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution on the need to reach comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
The resolution calls for Russia to end hostilities and withdraw its forces from Ukraine. 141 members voted in favour of the resolution while seven members opposed it. 32 members including India abstained from voting. Foreign ministers and diplomats from more than 75 countries addressed the assembly during two days of debate, with many urging support for the resolution that upholds Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
The Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations said, India’s approach to the Ukraine conflict will continue to be people-centric. She said, India is providing both humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and economic support to some of its neighbours in the Global South under economic distress, even as they stare at the escalating costs of food, of fuel, and of fertilizers - which has been a consequential fall out of the ongoing conflict.
Ms Kamboj said, India upholds principles of UN charter and it will always call for dialogue and diplomacy as only way out. She said, while India take note of stated objectives of the resolution given its limitations in reaching the goal of securing lasting peace it is constrained to abstain.

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