Wednesday 22, when the president Alberto Fernándezits chancellor, Santiago Cafiero and a large national entourage trip to Antarctica, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on a Resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s forces. And they will also ask him to withdraw his troops from the territory, among other requests.

Official sources report here that the Government has instructed the Argentine representation to the United Nations to Argentina vote in favor of the condemning resolution of the Russian Federation.

The project, called “Principles for a just peace in Ukraine”, was presented by the Ukrainian, American and European Union governments, the triangle that resulted in sanctions and greater severity in the attack by the Russians. And try to discuss the draft resolution that at the moment also approved by more than fifty countries in an emergency session of the General Assembly, in the context of the first anniversary of the war, the end of which is not yet in sight.

Given the lack of truthful information from the two contenders, it was the Norwegian army who reported at the end of January that in almost a year of fighting the war in Ukraine has caused about 180,000 killed or wounded in the ranks of the Russian army and 100,000 on the Ukrainian side, as well as 30,000 civilian deaths.

The draft resolution, which was able to observe clarionunderlines the “need to reach as soon as possible, a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in line with the principles of the Charter” of the United Nations. Russia is told to “withdraw its troops from Ukrainian territory” and it is required “Get Prisoners of War Treated” according to international law.

It also “calls on Russia to cease attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and stresses the need to ensure the responsibility for international crimes committed on the territory of Ukraine through fair and independent investigations at the national and international levels”.

Last Wednesday, in the context of an interview given to the media associated with the Inter-American Press Association (SIP), and in which he participated clarion, The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, has called on the leaders of the Latin American and Caribbean region to set aside a “neutrality and getting to the right side of history”.

In response to a question from this newspaper about the degree of satisfaction of Volodimir Zelensky’s government with Argentina’s position on the war beyond the Kirchner alliance with Putin, the Ukrainian foreign minister left a message: “At the United Nations General Assembly a resolution on the anniversary of Russian aggression against Ukraine, the tragic anniversary, will be considered and voted on, and this will be an indicative moment. We will see who and how Argentina will vote“, Shoot.

After visiting Putin on February 3, 2022, when Putin’s troops were already encircling Ukrainian territory, Alberto Fernández offered the Russian leader that Argentina be the door to Latin America, which has upset the government of Joe Biden and his European allies.​

However, weeks later, Fernández and Cafiero began condemning the invasion of Ukraine. They also condemned it in the resolutions of international organizations taking into account the principle of territorial integrity of Ukraine, and taking this as an antecedent of the Malvinas conflict with Great Britain. A notion of international law that Ukraine, the United Kingdom and Argentina use arbitrarily on the basis of their national interests.

Even so, Argentina’s position joined that of all of Latin America, reject sanctions against Moscow and seeking neutrality that Kuleba spoke of. Brazil and Mexico, two leaders of the region, have also remained distant from the European and American positions. Nor have Argentines agreed to condemn Russia in the Organization of American States (OAS) framework because they believe it is not the framework to do so.

Putin called Fernández to congratulate him on winning the World Cup in Qatar. And the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lavrov, He spoke several times with Cafiero. They also did it in person at the G20 summit in Bali in November. past.

Although the Foreign Ministry says it has no information about it, Foreign Minister Lavrov has sent signals to that effect He wants to tour Latin America that includes Argentina.