The United Nations General Assembly will meet Monday for a rare emergency special session to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
— The United Nations General Assembly will meet Monday for a rare Emergency Special Session to discuss theThe U.S. and Albania requested a Sunday Security Council meeting to vote to convene the emergency General Assembly session, the first of its kind in 40 years and only the 11th such session in U.N. history.
The vote was the latest U.N. effort to isolate Russia diplomatically – there is not much the Security Council can do that would be enforceable during the conflict in Ukraine because Russia holds veto power. "The escalation of military operations by the Russian Federation in Ukraine is leading to escalating human rights violations," U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday morning by video message. He was scheduled to attend in person, but cancelled because of the ongoing work at U.N. Headquarters.
General Assembly action, which is unenforceable, is intended to show that the global community is shocked by the unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine, the U.K.,France and the U.S. said.