UN General Assembly approved on Tuesday by an overwhelming majority of votes (118 votes in favor and none against) call for Olympic truce For Games Paris 2024But Russia and its ally Syria abstained. to protest the recent expulsion Russia International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The UN General Assembly adopted the “Olympic Truce” #Paris2024
IOC President Thomas Bach and @Paris2024 President of the organizing committee @TonyEstanguet welcomed the adoption of the resolution on the observance of the Olympic Truce at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris on… pic.twitter.com/61hUIaIP54
— IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) November 21, 2023
Call to The Olympic Truce is usually a mere formality in the General Assembly, which convenes silence weapons for two weeks while a sporting event lasts, but never in recent decades has this coincided with two wars of enormous global significance, how is Ukraine and the Gaza Strip.
The Olympic Truce resolution was adopted today by an overwhelming majority of 118 votes, with 2 abstentions and no votes against. @A General Assembly. pic.twitter.com/PgQ7tbKbGG
— Christian Klaue (@ChKlaue) November 21, 2023
War in Gazadespite being the focus of various UN agencies, the Security Council and the Secretary-General, it was barely mentioned in the debate today General Assemblyand only the representative of Egypt mentioned this, remembering that Talk about the Olympic Truce should be understood as a message to Israel accept a truce without surnames.
However, the conflict Ukraine finally made its way into today’s debate when the Russian representative Maria Zabolotskaya took the floor and warned that his country, which had “always” supported the Olympic Trucewould abstain this year in protest against the “illegal exclusion of Russian athletes from international sporting competitions.”
Wherein, Zabolotskaya invoked an exception Russian IOC October 5, as punishment for annexing four regions of Ukraine, and banning them athletes will perform under the Russian flag in Paris in 2024, although the IOC left them the option of doing so in a neutral capacity.
In this case, Russia received only explicit support for Syria at the time of the vote, while other Russian allies such as China In many other conflicts they limited themselves to asking that The Olympic Games and sports in general are depoliticized.
IOC President, Thomas Bach, took the floor before the General Assembly to respond to the representative of Russia and tell her that “There is no “Global South” or “Global North” at the Olympic Games, we are all equal. (and) we must be politically neutral and reject any discrimination,” but believed that Moscow, by annexing regions of Ukraine, violated the integrity of Ukraine. National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.
AND Bach used the platform to warn againstRussian project to organize the World Friendship Games from September 15 to 29, 2024 as an alternative Olympic Games in Paris, which will take place in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Urals.
Bachi said that this call means make sport part of political tension, “leads to political fragmentation of international sport” and this means that in the long run “In a fractured world, there will be no more World Cups.”
(according to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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