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India: India under pressure from US and Russia over UN vote
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NEW DELHI, 26 February 2022, (TON): India is under enormous pressure from both Washington and Moscow to vote with them on a UN Security Council resolution to censure Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
Both sides have reached out to New Delhi to make their case and openly expressed hope that they will have India's support for a vote that is expected in the early hours of Saturday IST.
Barring a dramatic shift in India's traditionalist and independent-minded geo-political thinking, it is expected to abstain or vote nay on the resolution, which in any case will be largely symbolic because Russia, as a permanent member of the UNSC will veto it.
A former Indian diplomat who has served in the UN said India's vote will be a nay or an abstention depending on the language of the resolution, but he could not see it being a yes.
US analysts already seem reconciled to India not supporting Washington.
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