India voted against Russia’s demand for a secret vote in the UN General Assembly on a draught resolution to denounce Moscow’s “illegal” annexation of four areas of Ukraine. New Delhi supported a public vote on the proposal along with more than 100 other countries.
The Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine were the subject of “illegal so-called referendums” and “attempted illegal annexation,” which the 193-member UN General Assembly condemned on Monday. Albania made the motion that the vote on the draught resolution be conducted by recorded vote.
The secret ballot vote was required by Russia in order to pass the resolution. Moscow’s demand for a secret vote was turned down as 107 UN members, including India, voted in favour of a recorded vote. Only 13 nations voted in favour of Russia’s proposal for a secret ballot, and 39 others stayed abstained. One of the nations that abstained was China. Russia filed an appeal following the general assembly president’s decision to allow a recorded vote.
India was one of the 100 nations who voted against Moscow’s appeal in the recorded vote on the matter.
