The UN Security Council on Monday for the first time approved resolutions remotely after painstaking negotiations among diplomats who are ...
The UN Security Council passed its first resolutions since it began teleworking due to the coronavirus and comes as COVID-19 rapidly spreads in New York, which has become the epicenter of the disease in the United States AFP/Ludovic MARINUNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Monday for the first time approved resolutions remotely after painstaking negotiations among diplomats who are teleworking due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Several countries wanted to move sessions entirely to videoconferencing, but Russia - one of five nations wielding veto power - objected on both legal and political grounds, diplomats said.STILL ACTIVE, BUT ENCUMBERED "The new voting procedure seems enormously and unnecessarily bureaucratic," said Richard Gowan, the UN director at the International Crisis Group, which promotes peaceful resolutions to conflicts.
But she discounted the risk of more superficial results, saying that UN resolutions have always been a search for the"lowest common denominator" through negotiations.
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