The UN General Assembly approved it on Tuesday by an overwhelming majority (118 yes and no, no votes). Calls for an Olympic ceasefire for the 2024 Paris Games, but Russia and its ally Syria abstained in protest at Russia’s recent exclusion from the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The call for an Olympic truce is usually just a formality in the general assembly calling for a cessation of arms for the two weeks of the sporting event, but in recent decades no two wars with enormous global impact have ever coincided with this. like it? Ukraine and the Gaza Strip.
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The war in Gaza Although this war has been central to the concerns of the various UN agencies, the Security Council and the Secretary General, it was barely mentioned during today’s debate. The General Assembly and only the representative of Egypt mentioned this when he remembered. Talk of an Olympic ceasefire should be seen as a message to Israel to accept a ceasefire without a surname.
However, the conflict in Ukraine finally entered today’s debates when Russian representative Maria Zabolotskaya took the floor and warned that her country had “always” supported the Olympic ceasefire and would abstain this year in protest against “the illegal”. Exclusion of Russian athletes from international sports competitions.”
Zabolotskaia was referring to the expulsion of IOC Russia on October 5 as punishment for annexing four regions of Ukraine and the ban on it. Athletes will compete under the Russian flag in Paris 2024, although the IOC has left open the option to do it. neutral.
On this occasion, Russia only received explicit support from Syria at the time of the elections, while other countries linked to Russia, such as China, limited themselves to demanding this in many other conflicts. .
IOC President Tomás Bach took the floor before the General Assembly to respond and inform the Russian representative: “At the Olympic Games there is no ‘Global South’ or ‘Global North’, we are all equal (and) we must politically neutrality and any form of discrimination,” but argued that Moscow violated the integrity of Ukraine by annexing regions of Ukraine from the Ukrainian National Olympic Committee.
And Bach used the platform to warn about the Russian project to organize the World Friendship Games from September 15 to 29, 2024 as an alternative to the Paris Olympics, which will take place in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Urals.
Bachi said that this call means that sport must become part of the political tensions, “it leads to the political fragmentation of international sport” and that is what it also means in the long term: “In a fragmented world there will be no more World Cups are.”
(With information from EFE)
Source: La Neta Neta
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