“The Global South is reluctant to sacrifice its interests to punish Russia”

By Andrés Allemand Smaller

(La Tribune de Genève)

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How many will refuse to upset Moscow?

This Thursday, the eve of the first anniversary of the Russian offensive, the United Nations General Assembly is preparing to vote on a new resolution calling for a cessation of hostilities and the negotiation of a peace that guarantees "sovereignty, independence

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The text will be adopted by a majority of States, but the challenge is elsewhere: it is a question of evaluating the support available to Vladimir Putin to circumvent Western sanctions and continue his war.

Because an ill wind is blowing in the “

” bringing together those who used to be called developing countries and emerging economies.

For a year, despite the atrocities committed in Ukraine, each resolution adopted at the UN has faced an astonishing number of abstentions.

This was the case on March 2 to denounce the Russian invasion (5 oppositions and 35 abstentions, including China, India and South Africa).

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