{"id":3352,"date":"2025-02-24T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2025-02-24T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T17:39:08","slug":"us-tells-eu-to-withdraw-ukraine-motion-at-un-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/us-tells-eu-to-withdraw-ukraine-motion-at-un-ft\/","title":{"rendered":"US tells EU to withdraw Ukraine motion at UN \u2013 FT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington and Brussels have proposed rival resolutions on the conflict for a General Assembly vote on Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n

The United States has urged the EU to withdraw a UN resolution on the Ukraine conflict, Financial Times reported on Monday, citing officials familiar with the discussions.<\/p>\n

According to the report, US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration and the European Union have put forward competing UN resolutions for a General Assembly session scheduled for Monday. <\/p>\n

The EU\u2019s draft, co-authored with Kiev, was introduced to mark the third anniversary of the conflict and places full blame on Russia \u2013 an interpretation Moscow strongly denies.<\/p>\n

Washington, however, has proposed its own resolution, submitted on Friday, which calls for a swift end to the conflict, equates Ukraine\u2019s actions with Russia\u2019s, and mourns \u201cthe tragic loss of life\u201d<\/em> as a result of hostilities, according to one official.<\/p>\n

Russia has proposed amending the US draft to reference addressing the \u201croot causes\u201d<\/em> of the conflict, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Votes on both the European and US resolutions are expected to follow the release of a G7 statement, issued during a virtual meeting of the group\u2019s leaders earlier on Monday afternoon. The UN Security Council is also set to vote on the US resolution later in the day, according to FT sources.
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\u201cThis [US] wording is obviously unacceptable to us,\u201d<\/em> one official briefed on the matter told FT, adding \u201cIt\u2019s all linked together and part of the wider shift in position by the US.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week, the US refused to agree to a G7 statement that referred to \u201cRussian aggression\u201d<\/em> against Ukraine. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed that stance over the weekend when asked by Fox News if it was \u201cfair\u201d<\/em> to say that Russia had invaded Ukraine. \u201cFair to say it\u2019s a very complicated situation,\u201d<\/em> Hegseth responded.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine conflict was \u2018provoked\u2019 \u2013 Trump adviser<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On Monday, Trump\u2019s senior adviser Steve Witkoff told CNN the Ukraine conflict was \u201cprovoked\u201d<\/em> and that blaming Russia alone is misguided. He argued that Moscow was responding to a security threat created by the West\u2019s promises to admit Ukraine into NATO.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s push for UN action comes after US President Donald Trump launched an effort to broker an end to hostilities between Moscow and Kiev.<\/p>\n

Last week, Russian and US officials held their first high-level talks in three years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, focusing on restoring diplomatic ties and addressing the Ukraine conflict. Ukrainian and EU leaders have since said that they felt sidelined by the White House and alarmed by Trump\u2019s public criticism of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, whom he labeled \u201ca dictator.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump has claimed that Zelensky is responsible for the conflict\u2019s escalation and said that his presence at the Riyadh meeting was unnecessary.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington and Brussels have proposed rival resolutions on the conflict for a General Assembly vote on Monday The United States has urged the EU to withdraw a UN resolution on the Ukraine conflict, Financial Times reported on Monday, citing officials familiar with the discussions. According to the report, US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}