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Added on the 27/06/2022 06:25:59 - Copyright : Euronews EN
The UN General Assembly adopts a new non-binding resolution that demands an "immediate" halt to Russia's war in Ukraine. In a vote at UN headquarters in New York, 140 countries voted in favor, 38 abstained and five voted against the measure. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden says that he would be ready to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin but only "if he is looking for a way to end the war." SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses China of "fuelling" Russia's invasion of Ukraine through the transfers of dual use materials and weapons components from Chinese businesses to Russia for use in Moscow's military expansion. "If China purports on the one hand to want good relations with Europe and other countries, it can't on the other hand be fuelling what is the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War," Blinken tells a press conference after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers on the Italian island of Capri where he had urged urged his European counterparts to increase pressure on Beijing. SOUNDBITE
German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann qualifies Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy supplies as "war crimes," after a meeting between G7 justice ministers concerning war crimes in Ukraine. "People are left in their homes, in a winter that could possibly reach -30 degrees; then this is a terrible war crime. Winter is used as a weapon," he states. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron calls for Paris and Beijing to unite against the war in Ukraine as he begins a meeting with China's leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron urges the international community that "there can be no weakness, no spirit of compromise" facing Russia in a video address to participants in the Crimea Platform conference in Kyiv. "It's a matter of our freedom, for everyone, and of peace everywhere around the world," Macron added. SOUNDBITE