According to RIA Novosti, 43 countries voted in favor, 46 against, 78 members of the UN abstained.
Earlier, the Chairperson of the UN General Assembly, Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper, commented on the situation with the Treaty on Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF). According to her, “a strong and reliable international rule-based system depends on the political commitment and will of all the countries involved.”
On December 20, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a major press conference, said that the tendency to underestimate the threat of nuclear war is growing.