GENEVA, May 12. /TASS/. China and Eritrea voted against the anti-Russian resolution on Ukraine during the special session of the UN Human Rights Council special session in Geneva. The document, authored predominantly by countries, unfriendly to Russia, and adopted during the vote via the majority of votes, was supported by 33 delegations, including the US, the UK and France, while 12 delegations, including representatives of Armenia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, abstained. Russia did not take part in the meeting.
The resolution, written in a deliberately anti-Russian language, calls the special military operation in Ukraine an "aggression." The document focuses on violation of human rights, allegedly committed in late February and in March near Kiev, Chernigov, Kharkov and Sumy, "while under control of Russian forces." The resolution calls on the previously established Human Rights Council commission on investigation of human rights violation in Ukraine to carry out investigations in these regions in order to "bring the perpetrators to responsibility."
Despite the insistent calls of the authors to adopt the resolution via a consensus, there was no unity among the participants. Under insistence of China, who harshly criticized the project for "lack of objectivity," the resolution was put to a vote.
Eritrea joined China in voting against the resolution. Delegations of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Bolivia, Venezuela, India, Cameroon, Cuba, Namibia, Pakistan, Senegal and Sudan abstained from the vote. Meanwhile, Eritrea, Venezuela and Cuba also criticized the document.