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On Friday, December 21, Russia failed to convene a simple majority vote of the UN General Assembly to adopt its draft resolution on the continuation of the Treaty on the Elimination of Small and Medium-Range Missiles . Representatives of the United States and the EU say that the resolution does not contribute to the preservation of the treaty.
Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, writes on Twitter.
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Thus, 43 countries voted against, against – 46, 78 abstentions .
Russia is again disappointed by the UN General Assembly: this time, the resolution on "the maintenance of the intermediate-range missile elimination treaty" does not even obtained a simple majority of votes,
– wrote Yelchenko.
At the same time, Tass writes that the document was supported by China, Members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Iran, Syria and a number of Latin American countries.
The publication notes that the main idea of the Russian document is to support the treaty "as one of the cornerstones of European and international security" and the appeal to the parties to the treaty. – Russia and the United States continue consultations for its preservation.
Instead, the representatives of the United States and the European Union explained the results of the vote stating that "this resolution does not contribute to the maintenance of the treaty".
By the way, Russia has presented to the UN General Assembly an ECT resolution to preserve a liquidation treaty with intermediate and short reach a week ago. The adoption of this document was to respond to a recent announcement by the United States of their intention to withdraw from the agreement.
Remember that on December 4, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that his country would withdraw from the Medium- and Small-Scale Missile-Missing Treaty if Russia was not in place for 60 days.
In October, US President Donald Trump announced that he was withdrawing from the treaty on the elimination of the Red Army, in violation of the terms of the treaty.
What is the treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range missiles? 9459013] On December 8, 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan signed the DRSMD at the Soviet-American Summit in Washington DC.
The treaty stipulates that the United States and Russia will refuse the production, use and stockpiling of ground-based (1,000 to 5,500 kilometers) and small (500 to 1,000 kilometers) ballistic missiles. 000 kilometers).
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