I googled it but only find articles about who is for or against it. What is it exactly?
When I read the word draft, I think of people being drafted for war, or crafted beers. I do know that resolution means to solve an issue.
Please help and thank you!
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In the context I’m pretty sure you’re talking about (the IAEA draft resolution condemning Russia), you’re thinking of the wrong definitions for both words.
“Draft” here means “document that isn’t final yet”.
“Resolution” means “policy statement by a governing body”.
So the IAEA has written a notional policy statement condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine, but it’s not final/official yet (it’s a draft…they will iterate and edit and tweak it until they can agree on final text).
This is a terrible case of the same word in English meaning radically different things depending on context.
This is a semi-big deal because IAEA doesn’t usually wade into politics like this at all, the draft is much more strongly worded that IAEA resolutions usually are, and IAEA has a lot of clout when it comes to nuclear things, which Russia has a rather large interest in (as does Ukraine). In terms of actually stopping the war it’s probably not that helpful but in terms of pissing Russia off and doing further long term economic damage to Russia it’s probably helpful.
Edit:typo
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