Attitudes hardens further against SA after it refused to support another UN resolution
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 10 2022, in this still image taken from video. Picture: TV/HANDOUT/REUTERS
Presidential spokesperson Tyrone Seale confirmed that “the two leaders had been trying to set up a call”, but he said they had not spoken yet. Instead, SA proposed a competing draft that did not mention Russia or its role in the start of the conflict, arguing instead that the humanitarian situation should enjoy priority over “geopolitical considerations”. But 67 states voted not to vote on SA’s draft; 50 countries were in favour of it and 36 abstained.
A Pretoria-based European diplomat said some diplomats led a démarche to the department of international relations and co-operation about SA’s stance on the humanitarian resolution. Officials “insisted they weren’t [floating the competing text] at the behest of Russia”.Diplomats in New York tried to engage SA about its text, but they weren’t given an audience, he said. “We hope SA will finally realise that they are losing friends about this.
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