Ukraine Crisis; US Calls for UN Security Council Meeting
The United States has called for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in relation to the Ukraine crisis. The US Ambassador to the United Nations announced that the body will hold a public session to discuss ways to address the Ukraine crisis.
Amid escalating tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine, the United States turned to the UN Security Council on Thursday, January 27 (February 7).
Thomas-Greenfield, US Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, announced that the body will hold a public session on Monday to discuss ways to address the Ukraine crisis.
The American diplomat described Moscow’s deployment of more than one hundred thousand troops on Ukraine’s border and other provocative and destabilizing actions by Russia against Ukraine as an overt threat to international peace and security.
The United States and its Western allies are concerned about the possibility of a Russian attack on Ukraine and have repeatedly called in recent days for the withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine’s borders.
Russia denies allegations that it is preparing an attack on Ukraine. The Kremlin, meanwhile, has demanded that NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe be halted and that all military forces deployed in Eastern European countries since 1997 be withdrawn.
Source: DW
