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Added on the 22/09/2022 18:13:56 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Ukraine's top diplomat calls for the UN Security Council to convene an emergency meeting following the partial destruction of the strategically important Russian-held Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine. "Ukraine calls an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council and brings the issue of the Russian terrorist act to the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors," Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says in a statement. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken uses a UN Security Council session attended by his Russian counterpart to accuse Moscow of crimes against humanity in Ukraine. "Russia is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine on a daily basis," Blinken tells the session earlier addressed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. SOUNDBITE
Russia's UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya interrupts the start of a Security Council meeting to object to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking ahead of the other members. "There is a solution for this if you agree. You stop the war and President Zelensky will not take the floor," Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who presides over the Council, tells the Russian official. IMAGES
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says "the United Nations-centered system is enduring a profound crisis" as he presides over a Security Council meeting in New York amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges the world to hold President Vladimir Putin accountable for the Ukraine invasion, at a Security Council meeting attended by Russia. "The very international order that we've gathered here to uphold is being shredded before our eyes. We cannot -- we will not -- allow President Putin to get away with it," Blinken says. SOUNDBITE
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog Rafael Grossi tells the Security Council that the agency must be allowed to inspect Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, saying that fighting near the site has sparked a "grave" crisis. SOUNDBITE