I can tell you that the Russians were making every effort to intimidate and press those countries away from supporting this General Assembly resolution.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “I can tell you that the Russians were making every effort to intimidate and press those countries away from supporting…”
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Thomas-Greenfield highlights Russia's intimidation tactics against countries supporting UN resolutions.
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Putin wants the world to travel back in time to a time before the United Nations, to a time when empires rule the world. But the rest of the world has moved forward. It is not 1919. It is 2022.
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.
We plan to have solid support for it. And then we will move it to the General Assembly if we have to, as we did in the past.
It’s very difficult to take any of the five permanent members with veto rights over anything that goes on in the Security Council, it’s hard to get them off.





