Zimbabwe and 14 other African states were among 32 UN member states that abstained from voting on a General Assembly resolution calling for Russia to pull out its troops from Ukraine, APA learnt here on Friday.
The resolution, whose vote occurred on the eve of Friday’s first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 last year, called on Moscow to stop its aggression against Kyiv by withdrawing its troops from the neighbouring country.
Besides Zimbabwe, other African countries that abstained from the vote were Algeria, Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Togo and Uganda.
Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Nigeria voted in favour of the resolution while Eritrea and Mali opposed the motion.
The resolution, however, sailed through after receiving the backing of 141 of the 180 countries that were represented.
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