The United Nations Security Council adopted a US-led resolution on Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday after it failed to pass earlier in the day in the body’s General Assembly.
“This resolution puts us on the path to peace. It is a first step, but a crucial one – one of which we should all be proud,” Dorothy Shea, the interim US ambassador to the UN, said of the resolution.
“Now we must use it to build a peaceful future for Ukraine, Russia and the international community,” she added.
The short, three-paragraph resolution takes a neutral position on the “Russia-Ukraine conflict.”
It calls for a swift end to the conflict and a lasting peace while mourning the loss of life since the fighting broke out when Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago this month.
The resolution also reiterates that the UN’s purpose is to maintain international peace and security and peacefully settle disputes.
The security council adopted the resolution with 10 votes in favor and no nations opposed.
Five countries – France, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Slovenia – abstained.
Russia, which backed the US in opposing the resolution passed by the General Assembly blaming Moscow for the war, voted in favor of the US-authored document in the Security Council.
“The UN Security Council vote to pass the U.S. resolution was a significant win for U.S. diplomacy and [President Trump’s] efforts to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war,” the State Department wrote on X.
“This historic action sets the conditions for a path to peace and an end to the carnage,” the department added.
The State Department argued that the US resolution was “simple, historic” and confirmed “what everyone agrees on: that the conflict is awful, and that the United Nations must unite to end it and show that peace is possible.”
The US was one of 18 nations that voted against the Ukraine-drafted resolution in the General Assembly, joining Russia, Moscow’s close ally Belarus, Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Central African Republican, North Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Israel, Mali, the Marshall Islands, Nicaragua, Niger, Palau and Sudan.
Another 93 nations voted to approve the resolution, with 65 abstaining.
