How should the U.N. General Assembly and its 193 member states respond to the coronavirus pandemic?
Members have been sent two rival resolutions for consideration. And under new voting rules instituted because the global body isn’t holding meetings, if a single country objects a resolution is defeated.
One resolution, which has more than 135 co-sponsors, supports the World Health Organization and calls for “intensified international cooperation" to defeat the pandemic.
The other, sponsored by Russia with support from four countries, also recognizes WHO's leading role, but it says unilateral sanctions must not be applied without U.N. Security Council approval.
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