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Nov 14 (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly connected Monday called for Russia to beryllium held accountable for its behaviour successful Ukraine, voting to o.k. a solution recognizing that Russia indispensable beryllium liable for making reparations to the country.
The resolution, supported by 94 of the assembly's 193 members, said Russia, which invaded its neighbour successful February, "must carnivore the ineligible consequences of each of its internationally wrongful acts, including making reparation for the injury, including immoderate damage, caused by specified acts."
The solution recommends that subordinate states, successful practice with Ukraine, make an planetary registry to grounds grounds and claims against Russia.
General Assembly resolutions are nonbinding, but they transportation governmental weight.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called the solution an "important" one.
"The reparations that Russia volition person to wage for what it has done are present portion of the planetary ineligible reality," Zelenskiy said successful his nightly video address.
Kyiv's Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya told the General Assembly earlier the ballot that Russia has targeted everything from factories to residential buildings and hospitals.
"Ukraine volition person the daunting task of rebuilding the state and recovering from this war, but that betterment volition ne'er beryllium implicit without a consciousness of justness for the victims of the Russian war. It is clip to clasp Russia accountable," Kyslytsya said.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the General Assembly earlier the ballot that the provisions of the solution are "legally null and void" arsenic helium urged countries to ballot against it.
"The West is trying to gully retired and worsen the struggle and plans to usage Russian wealth for it," Nebenzia said.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, present lawman president of Russia's Security Council, said connected the Telegram messaging app that the "Anglo-Saxons are intelligibly trying to scrape unneurotic a ineligible ground for the amerciable seizure of Russian assets."
Fourteen countries voted against the resolution, including Russia, China and Iran, portion 73 abstained, including Brazil, India and South Africa. Not each subordinate states voted.
In March, 141 members of the General Assembly voted to denounce Russia's invasion, and 143 successful October voted to condemn Moscow's attempted annexation of parts of Ukraine.
Zelenskiy connected Saturday said Russian forces destroyed captious infrastructure successful the strategical confederate metropolis of Kherson earlier fleeing. Moscow denies deliberately targeting civilians, though the penetration has reduced Ukrainian cities to rubble and killed oregon wounded thousands.
"It volition instrumentality a wide planetary effort to enactment Ukraine's betterment and reconstruction successful bid to physique a harmless and prosperous aboriginal for the Ukrainian people," Britain's U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward told the assembly.
"But lone 1 country, Russia, is liable for the harm to Ukraine, and it is perfectly right, arsenic this solution sets out, that Russia wage for that damage."
Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis and Doina Chiacu successful WASHINGTON; Additional reporting by Oleksandr Kozhukhar successful Kyiv and Lidia Kelly successful Melbourne; editing by Grant McCool
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