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lines on the record: 28
first: 2022-09-22
most recent: 2023-10-24
sittings or episodes: 5
sources: un-security-council

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“We can choose to see the conflict through our own eyes only, give in to grief and anger, or we can move ahead together, as small as our steps may be, so that Hamas can never again perpetrate such acts of terror. The rules of the Charter of the United Nations and international humanitarian law should guide our work for a new tomorrow towards a meaningful peace process, allowing Israelis and Palestinians alike to live side by side in peace and security, in two independent States, knowing that peace will work only if it works for everyone.”
2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source
“That is why it is crucial for us that this fight be carried out in line with humanitarian law, with the greatest possible consideration for civilians in Gaza. That is why my country, Germany, is increasing its humanitarian aid to Gaza by €50 million, of which €19 million will go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. That is why we need humanitarian windows so that those who are suffering can get help in Gaza. In doing so, we must not be fooled by Hamas’s playbook. Hamas is playing with human suffering, using women and children in Gaza as human shields, hiding its weapons under supermarkets, apartment blocks and even hospitals, with obvious intent. Their plan is to fan the flames of hatred and violence, spark regional escalation and tear us apart as a world community.”
2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Addressing the plight of Palestinians in no way contradicts this clear and unwavering stance. It is a key part of it. In Israel, I was shown videos of the most horrendous brutalities against human beings that one could possibly imagine — of young girls being thrown onto trucks as hostages. Imagine if they were my or your children. All hostages must be released immediately. I thank all partners who are working on it non-stop. In Jordan, I met Palestinian refugee families, schoolgirls who told me that 53 of their family and friends had been killed in Gaza over the past few days. I repeat, 53 — each of them someone’s daughter, someone’s son. Imagine if they were your daughter, your son. All civilian lives matter just the same. Humanity is universal, and so should be our empathy. The fight is against Hamas, and not against civilians.”
2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source
“Imagine what it would feel like if our sister were abducted, if our child were hit by a missile. We must hear each other out. Then we need to see how we can take small but courageous steps to end the suffering together. I speak to the Council as the Foreign Minister of a country that bears historic responsibility for the worst imaginable crime — the crime committed by Nazi Germany — the Shoah, the systematic murder of 6 million Jews, with the aim of eradicating Jewish life from Europe. Never again — to me as a German, that means that we will not rest knowing that the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors are now being held hostage by terrorists in Gaza. For Germany, Israel’s security is non-negotiable. Like any other State in the world, Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorism within the framework of international law.”
2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source
“A cry of agony can be heard across the Middle East. You can hear the cry in Israel, where families mourn their loved ones — killed, tortured, brutally abducted by Hamas terrorists. You can hear it in Gaza, where parents fear for the lives of their children. You can hear the cry in neighbouring countries, where families worry about the violence spilling over to them. Here in the Chamber, we hear the cry. If we want the agony to stop, we must heed all those cries, knowing that it will stop only if it stops for everyone. This conflict is testing us, the world community. Each of us looks at this conflict from our own perspective and history. We need to respect that. But if we want to find a way out of this crisis, we cannot stop there. We must seek to understand each other’s pain.”
2023-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9451Resumption1 (2023) · source
“The men, women and children of Nagorno-Karabakh and the entire region deserve a life without fear — without fear of violence erupting again, fear of being forced from their homes or fear of being deprived of their rights, language and religion. They, like all of us, deserve a life in peace.”
2023-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9422 (2023) · source
“Keeping the Lachin corridor open is crucial in that regard — for humanitarian reasons, but also because the corridor provides a cultural and social bridge for ethnic Armenians living in Karabakh. Baku and Karabakh Armenians need to return to a dialogue. Since it began over 30 years ago, this conflict has produced too many victims. What we need — what the people in the region need — is a lasting peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and that can only be achieved at the negotiation table. I will continue to make this very clear to both sides: I urge them to return to the talks mediated by the European Union, because now is the time to de-escalate. And I would like to underline that no country should use this situation to destabilize Armenia’s democracy.”
2023-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9422 (2023) · source
“It is hard to imagine the hardship that the children, women and men of Nagorno-Karabakh have been enduring for months, after the Baku authorities effectively closed the Lachin corridor. Store shelves remained empty, medical supplies ran out, and electricity and gasoline were scarce. Over the past weeks, together with many partners here in this Chamber, we worked hard to ensure humanitarian access to those in need, especially pregnant women, children and the elderly. Just at the moment when a glimpse of hope was emerging and humanitarian supplies were allowed into Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku broke its repeated assurances to refrain from the use of force, causing tremendous suffering to a population already in dire straits. The people of Nagorno-Karabakh deserve to live in security and to have their rights protected.”
2023-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9422 (2023) · source
“Far too many people have been killed in the course of just two days. Thousands have been forced to flee their homes. Azerbaijan has chosen to create facts on the ground by military force. We firmly condemn Baku’s military assault and call on it to permanently and completely cease its military actions. We have taken note of reports of a ceasefire, but what we need is a complete cessation of violence. Azerbaijan carries the responsibility to reliably and fully protect the civilian population, especially children, living in Nagorno-Karabakh. A displacement and forced exodus of ethnic Armenians from Karabakh are not acceptable. Having said that, I also want to reiterate what resolutions of this body have underlined time and again — the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of both Armenia and Azerbaijan must not be questioned.”
2023-09-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9422 (2023) · source
“As the Secretary- General pointed out, after Russia pulled out of the Initiative, we immediately saw wheat prices jump this morning. This is about humanity. It is about us. I therefore call on Russia to stop using hunger as a weapon, stop abducting children and stop its illegal war on Ukraine — in the name of humanity.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“The horror of the deported Ukrainian children is the tip of the iceberg of the unspeakable suffering that Russia’s war has brought to so many children around the world. By bombing roads, blocking ports and laying mines in grain fields in Ukraine, Russia has been adding fuel to the fire of a global food crisis. As a result, families on every continent struggle to make ends meet, and children go to bed hungry every night. And now, with its announcement that it will withdraw from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Moscow is threatening even more people and more children with starvation. By helping to bring down global food prices, the Initiative has been a lifeline for the weakest and most vulnerable around the world.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“I want to wholeheartedly echo their proposal: I would like to invite everyone gathered here to join forces with international organizations, Ukrainian authorities and non-governmental organizations to investigate Russia’s deportations and together find ways to bring the children back home. Despite all our differences, one conviction should be beyond debate: The deported children belong with their parents. They need to be returned home to Ukraine now. I would like to say to Russia that it can fool itself, but it cannot fool the world. In the past 500 days, the world has been to Bucha, Irpin and Kharkiv. The world has seen Russian atrocities. The world has spoken to the mothers, like Natálja, whose children Russia has taken.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“During the recent visit to Ukraine and Russia by a delegation of African Heads of State and Government, the participants made it very clear that, with regard to these children, humanity must come first. So let us work on that issue, especially as I am aware that we here in the Chamber are not all on the same page about every aspect of this war. But humanity is what unites us. All of us have experienced the tragedy of war in our regions. But when an aggressor does not even stop at children, tragedy turns into horrendous inhumanity. Recognizing that, the African colleagues proposed the return of the deported children as a first confidence-building measure.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“Since the start of Russia’s war of aggression, Russian authorities have transferred and deported thousands of Ukrainian children to Russian-occupied territory and to Russia itself. Those who have been able to return, like Artém, describe shocking experiences — how they were forced to speak Russian and to sing the Russian national anthem in Russian children’s homes, how their names and ages were changed in order to erase their identities so that their parents could never find them again, how they were threatened with being adopted by Russian families. Since I learned about those crimes, I have not been able to stop imagining how I would feel if these children were my own two little daughters. And I know that my colleagues from Africa, Asia and Latin America feel the same.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
““Mum, come and get me.” Those were the words that Natálja Schornyk had been desperately waiting for. Weeks earlier, Russian troops had arrived at a school in Kupyansk, near Kharkiv, in Ukraine — the school that Natálja’s 15-year-old son, Artém, went to every day, like a normal schoolboy. They took Artém and a dozen of his schoolmates away. Natálja told reporters that, for weeks, she had no idea where he was. She did not know if he was still alive. Then, at last, Artém was able to contact her. “Mum, come and get me.” That is what he told his mother on the phone. It took Natálja months to find her son and to get him back. She managed to travel to the place in Russian-occupied Ukraine where he was being held and took him home, finally, back into her arms. The story of Artém and Natálja is just one of many.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“But what we can do is ensure that the Council does not turn a blind eye to Bucha, Kharkiv, Mariupol and Bakhmut, or to the people and the children of Ukraine. What we can do is stand up for a world where peace means peace.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Russian children are going to schools in Germany, and I am very happy about that. More than 1,000 international companies have pulled out of Russia, taking with them a crucial part of Russia’s prosperity and intelligence. This war is not the world’s war, nor is it the war of the Russian people. It is Putin’s war. The Russian President is risking the future of his own country, his own soldiers and his own children. That is why a just peace, as contained in the peace plan presented yesterday by 141 States to the General Assembly, is also in the interests of the people of Russia. When I look around this table, I am under no illusions. We will not convince the Russian representative today — he is not even listening.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Russia’s representatives, and anyone else, may be able to deceive themselves, but they cannot deceive the whole world. All of us who sincerely and honestly believe in a peace that means peace — a peace based on our Charter of the United Nations — must show our true colours now and stand by the General Assembly’s peace plan in its resolution ES-11/6. President Putin is gambling on the possibility that at some point our clear stance against the war will weaken. He is speculating that if he stays the course, his war of aggression will be rewarded. That war is also causing great suffering to his own people. Some 200,000 Russians have already been killed or wounded. Hundreds of thousands of Russians have left their country because they do not want to be part of the war.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“I would therefore like to underline what Secretary Blinken said. He said that if Ukraine stopped defending itself, Ukraine would end. If we stopped standing beside Ukraine, Ukraine would end. Just a few minutes ago, here in the Council, the Russian representative asked why we think that Ukraine would end. We think that because one year ago, his President told us that he would like to demilitarize Ukraine, and because over 365 nights and days since we have seen what that meant. Russia’s tanks did not bring water. Russia’s planes did not drop nutrition for babies. Rather, its tanks and planes have brought nothing but death and destruction, night and day, for thousands of mothers, fathers and children. And they have also brought death and destruction around the world — not directly, by missiles and bombs, but through a food crisis.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“I would like to ask the Council where Ukraine — which voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons because it believed in peace — would be today if we had not supported its right to defend itself and its people — the elderly, mothers, fathers and children — together with so many international partners? Can we imagine what it would mean to have more events such as those in Bucha, Kharkiv, Mariupol and Bahkmut, more atrocities against civilians or more children drawing pictures of a house where their loved ones once lived? Can we imagine what it would mean to have more war crimes and crimes against humanity while we stood idly by? I do not want to imagine such a world. I do not want to be responsible for such a world. I believe that most of us do not want to be responsible for such a world.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Peace must not mean that we ignore which the aggressor is and which the victim, because subjugation is not peace. Not naming the aggressor would mean accepting a world in which the mighty rule. It would mean accepting a world in which bombing schools, kidnapping children and shooting people off their bicycles is part of foreign policy. Not standing on the side of the victim would mean a world in which none of us would be able to sleep peacefully because we would all have to fear an attack by a stronger neighbour. The United Nations was founded to prevent such a world. That is why we cannot stand idly by. The Charter obliges us, the nations of the world, to act. Some members now claim that by imposing sanctions on the aggressor, standing by Ukraine’s side and supporting Ukraine’s right to self-defence, we are adding fuel to the fire.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“In Bucha, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Bahkmut, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is causing nothing but destruction, suffering and death. Yesterday, the General Assembly sent a powerful message about this ruthless war (see A/ES- 11/PV.19). An overwhelming majority of 141 States stood united for peace in Ukraine — a peace that is just, comprehensive and lasting. And the Assembly presented a peace plan that is based on the principles of our Charter of the United Nations. Today the eyes of the world are on the Security Council — the body that bears primary responsibility for the maintenance of peace and security in the world. From my point of view, every effort to move towards peace by a member of the Council is valuable. But peace must mean peace.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“We must live up to the spirit of the United Nations in contrast to the Russian President — because we are the United Nations, from North to South and from East to West, no matter how small or big.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“We must live up to the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations as it has been lived up to by the United Nations and our Turkish partners, who brokered the grain deal, as well by the World Food Programme, which Germany supports and which is shipping grain to Yemen and to the Horn of Africa. We must live up to the spirit of united nations as the United Nations and the International Criminal Court are doing, which are collecting evidence to ensure that the perpetrators in this war are held accountable. We must live up to the spirit of the United Nations as the International Atomic Energy Agency is doing, which is working to prevent a catastrophe at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and whose efforts are lending support in talks with all sides.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Here in the Chamber today we must therefore ask ourselves: if we let a permanent member of the Council launch such a war of aggression against its neighbour, what would that mean for the United Nations? For an institution whose Charter clearly states that “[a]ll members shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”. If the Charter means anything to us, we must not stand idly by. Instead, we must live up to the spirit our Charter — not for its own sake, but in particular because one of its member misuses its special veto rights in the Security Council.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“For 200 hundred days, Russia’s war has been increasing the hunger, poverty and insecurity around the world. I think this is a clear sign of why the Russian Foreign Minister only came in to the Chamber for his own speech, speaking for quite a while but not even mentioning the hunger, poverty and results all around the world. In the streets of Moscow today there are no queues of volunteers wanting to join the war in Ukraine. What we see instead are courageous men and women, and even children, taking to the streets because they do not want to be part of this war against Ukraine and do not want to be part of the hunger war in the world. Those men and women feel what we all feel, regardless of where we hail from — North, South, East or West — that all this war brings is pain, death and destruction.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“For many of those here, and for some in the General Assembly, this war might have seemed like a regional war far away on 24 February, for in many parts of the world there is too much suffering, itself driven by conflict, climate catastrophe, the pandemic and hunger. We noted that perception, and we in Germany can understand that feeling. But I think that we all now feel — together here in the Security Council but also in the General Assembly — that what has been happening over the past 200 days can leave no one around the globe untouched. After 200 days of Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine, President Putin’s most recent announcements makes it clear beyond any doubt. Russia is not conducting a so- called special operation. Russia is leading a full-fledged war of aggression, with war crimes, torture and rape, even of children.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Bucha. Mariupol. Izyum. When we talk about the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, we are not talking about abstract reports. We are talking about children, mothers, brothers, fathers, grandparents, women and men whose pain is raw. I therefore impress upon Russia that this is a war it will not win, so end the war. Stop the suffering in Ukraine. Stop sending more of its own citizens to their deaths. Stop its sham referendums, which are as unlawful as the war they are supposed to legitimize. Stop the grain war that is driving hunger across the globe. And stop paralysing this very organ, the Security Council.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source