UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN Security Council (UNSC) on Sunday adopted Resolution 2623 that calls for an “emergency special session” of the UN General Assembly to consider and recommend collective action on the Ukraine crisis.
It is the first such a resolution that the council has adopted in four decades, according to the Security Council Report.
The UNSC on Friday failed to adopt a draft resolution on Ukraine.
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Abdulla Shahid said that he will preside over the 11th Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York on Monday.
Taking to Twitter, Shahid said, following the decision taken in the Security Council, “I will preside over the Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly tomorrow – 28 February 2022 starting 10 am (local time)”.
“The Secretary-General of the United Nations presents his compliments to the Permanent Representatives to the United Nations and has the honour to inform that the Security Council today requested the convening of an emergency special session of the General Assembly,” UNGA President said in a statement. — NNN-AGENCIES
