According to Kyiv Post, citing sources familiar with internal UN discussions, the administration of US President Donald Trump has reportedly pushed to remove from a forthcoming UN resolution language reaffirming Ukraine's territorial integrity and condemning Russia's occupation of Crimea and other regions.

Source : European Pravda with reference to Kyiv Post

Details : The annual resolution, submitted by Ukraine to the UN General Assembly's Third Committee under the title "Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol", has for years remained an important diplomatic tool.

In December 2024, the United States, along with 77 other countries, voted in favour of the resolution, which passed with 78 votes.

Now, according to Kyiv Post sources, Washington is supposedly seeking to delete references to Russia's occupation of Crimea and to descriptions of the deteriorating human rights situation in the occupied territories.

Two sources claim that the United States wants the resolution to be submitted in a broader format – under the title "War in Ukraine" – and without references to "territorial integrity" or "aggression".

Ukraine's allies have reportedly expressed concern in informal conversations that such a move would effectively weaken the main annual UN document consistently condemning Russia's invasion.

"This is another example of Washington walking away from Ukraine's core interests at a critical diplomatic juncture," one European envoy told Kyiv Post on Sunday. "If the language goes, the message to Moscow is that the US is no longer leading the defence of the international order."

Diplomats from several European countries are said to be trying to persuade the United States to change its stance before the vote.

The UN General Assembly's Third Committee, which deals with human rights and humanitarian issues, is expected to consider the resolution in the coming weeks.

Despite assurances from US officials that the proposed changes are intended to make the resolution "more inclusive" and "forward-looking", Western diplomats privately view them as part of an effort to downplay references to Russian aggression in multilateral forums.

"It's not about semantics," said one senior European diplomat involved in negotiations. "It's about whether the world continues to recognise Russia's occupation as illegal – or starts treating it as a fact of life," the diplomat emphasised.

Background :

• In late February 2025, the US proposed a UN resolution marking the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine – notably without language condemning Moscow.
• Nevertheless, the UN General Assembly adopted the Ukrainian-sponsored resolution condemning Russian aggression, while the United States voted against it, alongside Russia and fewer than 20 other countries.
• The American draft, by contrast, had been amended so heavily that the US itself ultimately abstained in the vote on its own text.
• Earlier in the summer, media outlets reported that the US administration had discussed its own draft resolution with Russia ahead of the invasion's third anniversary, seeking to replace the Ukrainian text – a move that reportedly angered European allies.

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