NEW YORK, July 21 (RIA Novosti) – The UN Security Council is due to vote Monday on a draft resolution on the July 17 crash of a passenger plane in the crisis-hit eastern Ukraine, a diplomatic source at the UN headquarters told RIA Novosti.
“The draft resolution has been put into blue and the voting is going to be tomorrow afternoon [Monday], at 3 p.m. (19:00 GMT),” the source said.
When a draft UN Security Council resolution is put into blue, this means that it is ready to be presented for a vote.
The resolution will be blocked if one of five veto-wielding permanent member states (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) votes against it.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned on Friday the downing of a Malaysian passenger plane in eastern Ukraine and stressed that it should prompt conflicting sides in the Ukrainian standoff to end the fighting.
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed near the town of Torez in Donetsk Region on July 17, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board.
