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24
February
2023

Ukrainian MFA thanks UN member states for major support of Ukrainian resolution

KYIV. Feb 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry thanked the UN member states for their major support for the Ukrainian resolution “Principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine” adopted the night before.

“The General Assembly expressed its strong support for the importance of restoring a comprehensive, just and sustainable peace in Ukraine on the principles laid down in the UN Charter. We welcome that the vision of a way to achieve peace in Ukraine, proposed by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Ukrainian Peace Formula, was clearly reflected in the adopted resolution today,” the MFA said in the comment released on Thursday evening said.

The Foreign Ministry noted that the General Assembly reaffirmed its commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, which extend to its territorial waters, and identified further steps aimed at stopping Russian aggression, restoring peace and the territorial integrity of Ukraine and global.

“The resolution renews Russia’s call to immediately withdraw all troops from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders and to cease hostilities,” the ministry said.

It is also said that an important result was that the UN recognized the need to guarantee responsibility for crimes in accordance with the norms of international law committed on the territory of Ukraine.

“We thank the UN member states for their large-scale support for the Ukrainian resolution, which will be an important step towards the further implementation of the Peace Formula of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to restore peace and the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine,” the Foreign Ministry said.