Check against delivery Thank you, Mr President, Thank you, Secretary-General for the briefing, Excellencies, One thousand four hundred sixty-one days. Of entirely illegal, unjustified and unprovoked war. A war with “root causes” known by the entire world. Russia’s imperial, colonial aspirations. UN Charter principles shattered. Countless Ukrainian lives lost and destroyed. War crimes. Global consequences for food security. Ecocide, landmines, a global arms race. All because of one state, which…
Check against delivery Thank you, Mr President, Thank you, Secretary-General for the briefing, Excellencies, One thousand four hundred sixty-one days. Of entirely illegal, unjustified and unprovoked war. A war with “root causes” known by the entire world. Russia’s imperial, colonial aspirations. UN Charter principles shattered. Countless Ukrainian lives lost and destroyed. War crimes. Global consequences for food security. Ecocide, landmines, a global arms race. All because of one state, which refuses to accept that empires are dead. One state that four years ago blocked the Council from taking action. One state that a year ago vetoed a reference to the UN Charter in the Security Council resolution. Today, this same one state continues…
