Over 50 UN Countries Call for Immediate Ceasefire in Ukraine, Urge Russia to Negotiate
More than 50 United Nations countries have issued a joint statement calling for a complete, immediate, and unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine and urging Russia to return to the negotiating table. This call was made during an emergency UN Security Council meeting, where Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen read out the statement. The document explicitly states that Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine violates the UN Charter and fundamental principles of international law, asserting that Russia's aggression has undermined the international order and poses a threat to global peace and security. The U.S. representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, Dan Negrea, echoed these sentiments, calling for a halt to strikes on civilian facilities and emphasizing that there is no military solution to the war. Ukraine's Ambassador to the UN, Andrii Melnyk, in turn, appealed to foreign partners for more weapons, particularly Patriot interceptor missiles, to protect Ukrainian civilians and proposed a gl... 
