Excerpt: “As the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine entered its fourth year, the Security Council today adopted a resolution mourning the tragic loss of life and reiterating that the principal purpose of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security and peacefully settle disputes. Adopting resolution 2774 (2025) (to be issued as document S/RES/2774(2025)) by a vote of 10 in favour to none against, with 5 abstentions (Denmark, France, Greece, Slovenia, United Kingdom), the Council implored a swift end to the conflict and urged a lasting peace between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Before the vote, the representative of the United States said that the Council stands on ‘the precipice of history with a solemn task — creating conditions to end the bloodiest war on the European continent’ since the organ was created in June 1945. Noting that her country’s draft text is ‘a symbolic, simple first step towards peace’, she added that it ‘is not a peace deal’. Rather, it represents a path to peace, and she urged all Council members to join the United States in vanquishing the scourge of this war. However, the representative of the United Kingdom underscored: ‘There can be no equivalence between Russia and Ukraine in how this Council refers to this war.’ Moscow chose to launch a war of aggression, and ‘the Council must be clear on this’, she stressed. … The representative of the Russian Federation, for his part, said of today’s text: ‘We consider it, overall, as a common-sense initiative.’ It reflects, he said, the desire of the new United States Administration to ‘really contribute’. He also proposed several amendments, including inserting language regarding the need to ‘eradicate the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis’. On the amendments proposed by the European Council members, he said they ‘replace the essence of the American text and make it into another anti-Russia ultimatum’.”
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