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Russia vetoes UNSC resolution linking climate crisis to international peace
- a0-prw 5y ago"Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia complained that Monday’s proposed resolution would turn “a scientific and economic issue into a politicized question”, divert the council’s attention from what he called “genuine” sources of conflict in various places and give the council a pretext to intervene in virtually any country on the planet." Sounds right to me.
- lostlogin 5y agoDoes it? Getting the UN to act on things is not easy, and even genocide hasn’t spurred timely action.
- a0-prw 5y agoThere is only action on "genocide" when it suits US geopolitical ambitions. The Russians are right to block this sort of blank-cheque instrument. Happily, Russia learned from the Libya disaster.