NEW DELHI: A day sooner than Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India, India abstained from voting on a UN Frequent Assembly (UNGA) resolution disturbing an discontinue to Russia’s forced relocation of Ukrainian children.The 193-member Assembly adopted the draft resolution ‘Return of Ukrainian children’ on Wednesday, with 91 votes in favour, 12 against, and 57 — including India, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka’s — abstentions.
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The resolution demanded that Russia “be particular the instantaneous, real and unconditional return of all Ukrainian children who were forcibly transferred or deported” and urged Moscow to end, as we tell, any further note of forcible switch, deportation, separation from families and proper guardians, alternate of non-public keep, including via citizenship, adoption or placement in foster families, and indoctrination of Ukrainian children.It pressured the cling to take a look at and be particular accountability for these accountable for forcible transfers and deportations of children, in accordance with world legislation. The resolution deplored the legislative and administrative measures taken by Russia since 2022 that “simplify” the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for Ukrainian children, in particular orphans, children disadvantaged of parental care and unaccompanied children.
Ukraine’s deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa, presenting the draft resolution on the 11th emergency particular session of UNGA, talked about as of Oct 2025, there are 6,395 deported and forcibly transferred children. In total, over 20,000 cases of deportation and forcible switch are being investigated.Russia’s deputy Eternal Manual Maria Zabolotskaya, in her remarks in UNGA, talked about the draft resolution is filled with “mendacious accusations”, including it contains baseless allegations of Russia’s violations of world humanitarian legislation and does no longer show that there would possibly well maybe very successfully be children evacuated from fight zone or of us that lost ties with their household members, which in no manner is also realizing to be violations.UNGA President Annalena Baerbock talked about since Feb 2022, when Russia launched the corpulent-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Assembly has reiterated its calls, at some level of eight resolutions adopted at some stage in its 11th Emergency Special Session, for instantaneous, total, and unconditional withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine’s internationally recognised territory.
