UN Secretary General requests to meet Presidents Putin and Zelenskyy to negotiate end to war
Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, has separately requested meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in their countries’ capitals to try to negotiate an end to…
U.N. suspends Russia from human rights body over Ukraine abuses
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to suspend Russia from the organisation’s leading human rights body amid allegations that its soldiers killed civilians while retreating from the region around…
UNSC: West dismisses Russian claims of bioweapons in Ukraine
Russia has renewed accusations of a US-backed biological weapons programme in Ukraine, allegations that were dismissed as “disinformation” by most members of the UN Security Council. Representatives of the United States…
UN votes to investigate alleged Russian rights abuses in Ukraine
The UN Human Rights Council has condemned alleged rights abuses by Russia amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine and agreed to set up a commission to investigate them, including possible war crimes….
