Your trusted source

Hostile resolutions of the UN General Assembly do not help settle the conflict in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with the Breitbart News outlet.

"We didn’t feel it was conducive, frankly, to have something out there at the UN that’s antagonistic to either side [of the Ukrainian conflict]," he said, commenting on Monday's UN General Assembly vote. Rubio added that the US tried to get Ukraine on its side, but it did not agree. "They wanted to move forward on their [draft resolution]," he pointed out.

"We then went to the Security Council with our compromise, which I think is very fair language and it basically says ‘war is a terrible thing.’ I’m paraphrasing and being simplistic, but it says war is a terrible thing, way too many people have died, this war needs to end in a way that’s enduring - in essence, echoing President Trump’s view of what this conflict needs to be and reminding the United Nations that the purpose of the United Nations was the ending of war and the prevention of conflicts, not making it harder to end conflicts," the top US diplomat said.

"I’m not telling you that that (the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution - TASS) is going to end this conflict <...>, but I certainly think our language is better language and hopefully furthers the cause of peace," Rubio concluded.