Zhang: The United Nations should play its role in maintaining world peace and security

China’s permanent representative to the UN Zhang Jun on Wednesday expressed his hope that the UN Security Council would play a meaningful role in handling the humanitarian situation in Ukraine after the council failed to adopt a resolution submitted by Russia.

“We advocate that the Security Council should fulfill its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, and play its due role in the humanitarian issue of Ukraine,” Zhang said in his explanatory remarks after the vote.

The United Nations Security Council votes on a draft resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, at the UN headquarters in New York, on March 23, 2022. The 15-member UN Security Council on Wednesday failed to adopt a resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

China’s vote “was based on our call for the international community to attach high importance to the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, and for the parties concerned to strengthen coordination on humanitarian issues, so as to effectively protect the safety of civilians, especially women, children and other vulnerable groups, and to facilitate the personnel evacuation and humanitarian relief operations,” Zhang said.

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Inas Abdulkareem