On the recordJuly 19, 2022
I can tell you that the Russians were making every effort to intimidate and press those countries away from supporting this General Assembly resolution.
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congress.govI can tell you that the Russians were making every effort to intimidate and press those countries away from supporting this General Assembly resolution.
Thomas-Greenfield highlights Russia's intimidation tactics against countries supporting UN resolutions.
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They will hear from the president of the United States at the podium of the General Assembly tomorrow a rebuke of their unprovoked actions against Ukraine.
It means that President Putin is continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable.
This is part of their playbook. They have done this before. They did it in 2014, and it was not accepted.
We`re not going to let Russia get away with lying to the world or staining the integrity of the Security Council by using this forum as a venue for legitimizing Putin`s violence.