Recital 5

(5) In its Resolution ES-11/1, adopted on 2 March 2022, the UN General Assembly deplored in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine in violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. In its Resolution ES-11/4, adopted on 12 October 2022, the UN General Assembly, noting the UN Secretary-General’s statement of 29 September 2022 in which he recalled that any annexation of a State’s territory by another State resulting from the threat or use of force is a violation of the principles of the Charter and international law, condemned the organisation by the Russian Federation of illegal so-called referenda in regions within the internationally recognised borders of Ukraine and the attempted illegal annexation of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine, following the organisation of those so-called referenda.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-16 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.