Vote on the withdrawal of Russia troops from Ukraine

The 11th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) convened on 28 February 2022, four days after the start of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine. The UN Security Council called this special session after its permanent members failed to reach unanimity at its meeting on 25 February 2023, thus preventing it from exercising its primary responsibility, the maintenance of international peace and security.
On 2 March 2022 the UNGA adopted its first resolution in this setting by 141 votes in favour to 5 against, with 35 abstentions. Resolution ES 11/1 (Aggression against Ukraine) ‘deplores in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine in violation of Article 2 (4) of the Charter’ and demands the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of ‘all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders’.