# 164, 10 April 2022- edited by
Angelica Russomando and Ilaria
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MEPs call for a total
embargo on Russian gas imports
Parliament expresses the greatest
anger and indignation at the atrocities of the Russian
armed forces and calls for those responsible for war
crimes to be held accountable.
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UN General Assembly votes
to suspend Russia from the Human Rights
Council
The resolution received a
two-thirds majority vote, minus abstentions, in the
193-member Assembly, with 93 nations voting in favour
and 24 against. Fifty-eight abstained. Russia, China,
Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Vietnam were among
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Intervention by the NATO
Secretary-General after the NATO Foreign Ministers'
Meetings
We have just finished a
substantive meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers. We agreed
that we must further strengthen and sustain our support
for Ukraine. So that Ukraine prevails in the face of
Russia's invasion. |
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Ukraine’s President calls
on Security Council to act for peace, or ‘dissolve’
itself
In an impassioned speech to the
Security Council, Volodymyr Zelensky described in stark
detail what he said was the deliberate massacre of
civilians in Bucha by Russian forces, setting out an
existential choice for its members about the entire
future of the world's security architecture, founded in
1945.
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Ukraine: Declaration by
the High Representative on behalf of the EU on Russian
atrocities committed in Bucha and other
Ukrainian cities
The European Union condemns in
the strongest terms the reported atrocities committed by
the Russian armed forces in several occupied Ukrainian
towns, which have now been liberated.
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EU-China Summit:
Restoring peace and stability in Ukraine is a shared
responsibility
The European Union and China held
their 23rd bilateral Summit via videoconference on 1
April 2022. President of the European Council, Charles
Michel, and President of the European Commission, Ursula
von der Leyen, held the Summit meeting with China's
Prime Minister Li Keqiang, followed by exchanges with
China's President Xi Jinping.
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Ukraine: €17 billion of
EU funds to help refugees
The Council adopted on 4 April
legislative amendments allowing member states to
redirect resources from cohesion policy funds and the
European Fund for Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) to
assist refugees fleeing Russian military aggression
against Ukraine.
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Commitment will be key to
successful truce in Yemen
Commitment will be key to the
success of the two-month truce in Yemen. Tens of
thousands of civilians have been killed in more than
seven years of fighting between Yemeni forces, backed by
a Saudi coalition, and Houthi rebels.
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UN climate report: It's
'now or never' to limit global warming to 1.5
degrees
A new UN report on climate change
released on Monday, which shows that harmful carbon
emissions from 2010 to 2019 have never been so high in
human history, is proof that the world is on a "fast
track" to disaster.
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