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Archbishop Gallagher

lines on the record: 20
first: 2015-09-30
most recent: 2023-09-20
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-security-council

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“To all, and especially to tormented Ukraine, I would like to express my heartfelt wish that the peace we desire may return to cheer the whole world.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption1 (2023) · source
“It is better and cheaper for all to invest in peace rather than war. For its part, the Holy See is close to Ukraine and fully upholds its territorial integrity. It also continues to engage in humanitarian initiatives aimed at alleviating the suffering of the Ukrainian population, especially those members of it who are weakest and most vulnerable, while at the same time urging all States and relevant international organizations to become creative and courageous artisans of peace and weavers of constructive dialogue. Peace is not a reality whose features and properties are unknown. Everyone knows what peace is. It will surely come when there is a common commitment to implementing it, not only at the international institutional level but in our hearts and homes.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Aggression can generate only new aggression. If this war is not stopped and peace is not sought at every turn, the whole world risks plunging into even deeper crisis. The solution to the war in Ukraine is not only a matter for Ukraine itself. In the face of the tragedy unfolding before our eyes, it is past time to ask ourselves some of Pope Francis’s questions. What am I doing today for the Ukrainian people? Am I doing anything? Today more than ever the entire international community cannot surrender and let the issue pass by in silence. In order to have a peaceful and secure future, all States Members of the United Nations, and especially those on the Security Council, are called on to join their efforts in the quest for a just and lasting peace for Ukraine, as an important element of the global peace for which the world is thirsting.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption1 (2023) · source
“At present, we can see that it is expanding more and more, beyond Ukraine’s borders, covering not only Europe but other continents with its thick cloud, and above all infiltrating human hearts, making them containers of a logic of war. Truly, as Pope Francis has reminded us, we are witnessing a third world war that is being fought piecemeal. It is undeniable that Russia’s attack on Ukraine has jeopardized the entire global order that arose after the Second World War. Its negative consequences can already be glimpsed in the humanitarian, demographic, food, sociopolitical, legal, economic, ecological, military, nuclear, energy, health, educational, religious, migratory and other areas, which taken all together constitute fundamental elements of the architecture of world security. Evil is incapable of generating good.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Archbishop Gallagher: This open debate of the Security Council takes place in the context of the cruel and senseless war against Ukraine, which, with great sacrifice, is defending its sovereignty and the inviolability of its internationally recognized borders. Those are the same values promoted and shared since the foundation of this noble Organization. Faced with the ongoing tragedy, a spontaneous question arises: Against whom is this war being waged? It is before the eyes of everyone that those paying the highest price are civilian, simple people and, above all, children, youth and the elderly. War is a great evil.”
2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption1 (2023) · source
“A living awareness of that relationality leads us to see and treat each person as a true sister or brother. Without that, it becomes impossible to build a just society or a solid and lasting peace. “I assure the Council of my support, my prayers and the prayers of all the faithful of the Catholic Church on behalf of peace and every peace process and initiative. I wholeheartedly wish that not only the Security Council but the entire United Nations Organization, its Member States and each of its officials may always render effective service to humankind, taking responsibility for preserving not only their own future but that of all, with the boldness to increase now, without fear, what is needed to promote fraternity and peace for the entire planet. “Blessed are the peacemakers.””
2023-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9346 (2023) · source
“Peace must not be inert and passive but dynamic, active and progressive, according as the just demands of the declared and equitable rights of humankind require new and better expressions of peace. Peace must not be weak, inefficient or servile, but strong in the moral reasons that justify it and in the solid support of the nations that must uphold it. “There is still time to write a new chapter of peace in history. We can do so in such a way that war will belong to the past, not to the future. The discussions in the Security Council are aimed at and serve that end. I want to emphasize again a word that I like to repeat, for I consider it decisive — fraternity. Fraternity cannot remain an abstract idea but must become a real point of departure. Indeed, it is an essential dimension of humankind, because we are relational beings.”
2023-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9346 (2023) · source
“We cannot darken the heaven under which we live with the clouds of nationalisms. Where will we end up if we all think only of ourselves? “Those who strive to build peace must promote fraternity. Building peace is a craft that requires passion and patience, experience and farsightedness, tenacity and dedication and dialogue and diplomacy. They must listen, too, to the cries of those who are suffering because of wars, especially children. Their tear-stained eyes judge us. The future we prepare for them will be the court of our present choices. “Peace is possible if it is truly desired. Peace should find in the Security Council its fundamental characteristics, which a wrong idea of peace easily makes us forget. Peace must be based on reason, not passion. It must be magnanimous, not selfish.”
2023-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9346 (2023) · source
“It takes more courage to seek peace than to wage war. It takes more courage to promote encounters rather than confrontations, and to sit at the negotiating table rather than continue hostilities. “In order to make peace a reality, we must move away from the logic of the legitimacy of war. If that was more valid in earlier times when wars were more limited in scope, in our day, with nuclear weapons and others of mass destruction, the battlefield has become practically unlimited and the effects potentially catastrophic. The time has come to say an emphatic no to war and to state that wars are not just. Only peace is just — stable, lasting peace, built not on the precarious balance of deterrence but on the fraternity that unites us. We are indeed all brothers and sisters, journeying on the same Earth, dwelling in a single common home.”
2023-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9346 (2023) · source
“Today, though, we seem to be going backwards in history, with the rise of myopic, extremist, resentful and aggressive nationalisms that have kindled conflicts that are not only anachronistic and outdated but even more violent than those of the past. “As a man of faith, I believe that peace is God’s dream for humankind. Yet sadly, I note that because of war, that wonderful dream is changing into a nightmare. To be sure, from an economic point of view war is often more enticing than peace, inasmuch as it promotes profit. But that is always for a few and at the expense of the well-being of entire populations. The money earned from arms sales is therefore soiled with innocent blood. It takes more courage to renounce easy profits for the sake of keeping peace than to sell ever more sophisticated and powerful weapons.”
2023-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9346 (2023) · source
“New ideologies, characterized by widespread individualism, egocentrism and materialistic consumerism, weaken social bonds, fuelling a throwaway mentality that leads to contempt for the weakest and those considered useless and to their abandonment. In that way, human coexistence increasingly tends to resemble a mere do ut des that is both pragmatic and selfish. Yet the worst effect of this famine of fraternity is armed conflict and war, which make enemies not just of individuals but entire peoples, and whose negative consequences reverberate for generations. “With the founding of the United Nations, it seemed that after two terrible world wars the world had learned to move towards a more stable peace, and to become at last a family of nations.”
2023-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9346 (2023) · source
“For that very reason, I want to offer the Council a heartfelt invitation to tackle our common problems, setting aside ideologies, narrow visions, partisan ideas and interests, and to cultivate a single purpose — to work for the good of all humankind. The Council is of course expected to respect and apply the Charter of the United Nations with transparency and sincerity, and without ulterior motives, as an obligatory reference point of justice and not as a means of masking spurious intentions. “Today’s globalized world has brought all of us closer together, yet it has not made us any more fraternal. Indeed, we are suffering from a famine of fraternity arising from the many situations of injustice, poverty and inequality around the world, as well as from the lack of a culture of solidarity.”
2023-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9346 (2023) · source
“Archbishop Gallagher: I have the honour to read an address by His Holiness Pope Francis to the Security Council. “I thank the Council for this kind invitation to address it, which I willingly accepted because we are living at a crucial moment for humankind in which peace seems to be giving way to war. Conflicts are growing and stability is increasingly at risk. We are experiencing a third world war fought piecemeal that as time passes seems to become ever more widespread. “The Council, whose mandate is to safeguard the world’s peace and security, has at times seemed in people’s eyes to be powerless and paralysed. Yet its work, much appreciated by the Holy See, is essential to promoting peace.”
2023-06-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9346 (2023) · source
“Terrorists must never be allowed to destroy centuries of peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians in the region. The lie of terrorist groups that claim to kill and oppress in the name of religion must be denounced in the strongest possible terms. How can we stand by as our fellow human beings are being persecuted, exiled, killed, burned or beheaded solely because they hold a different religious creed or they happen to belong to a minority group? In conclusion, I would like to return to the address of Pope Francis to the General Assembly last Friday, when he said, "War is the negation of all rights and a dramatic assault on the environment. If we want true integral human development for all, we must work tirelessly to avoid war between nations and between peoples." (ibid) Now is the time for life-saving action.”
2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source
“The region needs those solutions now, if it is going to win the war against terror; if its populations are not going to be constrained to flee; if freedom and stable democracy are going to have any chance to flourish in the region; if the leaders of the region are going to learn to settle disputes peacefully; and if outside forces and Powers are going to refrain from imposing their wills in the region. Any lasting solution to the conflicts in the Middle East, and indeed to all conflicts in the world, must consider the centrality of the inviolable dignity and rights of the human person, regardless of race, religion, political belief or differences. Many individual citizens and groups in the region have suffered and continue to suffer death and all forms of violence because of their religion, ethnicity or political beliefs.”
2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source
“The situation is extremely grave and is worsening day by day. The settlement of the conflict in Syria must therefore be at the top of the priorities of the Council and of all the authorities in Syria and in the Middle East. My delegation avails of this opportunity to reiterate the Holy See's profound gratitude to those countries in the region that, in spite of their own difficult situations and limited resources, have welcomed and taken care of the millions of refugees. On its part, the Catholic Church remains active at the forefront in providing humanitarian aid to all those in need with all the means at its disposal. Flooding the region with more and more destructive weapons will not end the violence and the suffering. What the region needs are negotiated political solutions to the conflicts that continue to engulf it.”
2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source
“But from now on, every action to spare even just one Aylan from death and from all forms of atrocity is not only timely but urgent. The Holy See is calling on the international community not to remain silent and inert before all the tragedies happening even as we speak and before the watch of the Council. Enumerating the multiple and complex emergencies that the Middle East and North Africa continue to face on an unprecedented scale once more before the Council is unnecessary. But the Holy See feels compelled to echo the pleadings of the 12 million Syrians in need of humanitarian assistance, of whom 7million are internally displaced and 5 million have become refugees in other countries. My delegation also considers it a grave duty to denounce the utterly senseless destruction of some of the world's priceless cultural patrimony in Syria.”
2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source
“5) The migration crisis in the Mediterranean and in many parts of Europe has been provoked in a significant manner by violence and persecution perpetrated by terrorist groups in the Middle East and North Africa. The body of the three-old Aylan Kurdi, washed ashore in Turkey, represents the thousands who have perished in the perilous journey to flee from Violence and persecution. Aylan's limp and lifeless body cries to the international community, in particular to the Council, to do all it can to stop the madness, so that other innocent lives like his may be spared from the same tragic fate. Whatever we do from this moment on will be too little and too late for Aylan and for the thousands whose lives were ended due to our collective indifference and geopolitical and national rivalries.”
2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source
“In his address to the General Assembly last Friday, Pope Francis said "I must renew my repeated appeals concerning the painful situation in the entire Middle East, North Africa and other African countries where Christians, along with other cultural and ethnic groups, and including those adherents of the majority religion who have no desire to be caught up in the hatred and madness, have been forced to witness the destruction of their places of worship, their cultural and religious heritage and their homes and property, and are faced with the alternatives of either of fleeing or of paying with their lives or with enslavement for their devotion to goodness and peace." (A/70/PV3, p.”
2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source
“Archbishop Gallagher: My delegation wishes to thank Russia's presidency of the Security Council for convening this timely open debate on the theme "Settlement of conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa and countering the terrorist threat in the region".”
2015-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7527 (2015) · source