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  1. “There are many other crises I could mention, such as Myanmar, Yemen, Venezuela and others but, in the interest of time, let me stop here. I am sure that we will have an interesting debate. I wanted to be frank and honest and put on the table the issues that really deserve the Council’s attention. I look forward to any and all comments.”

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  2. “I now move to Afghanistan, which one year ago was in the headlines of all newspapers around the world, and we only had eyes for what was happening there. Today Afghanistan is somewhat forgotten, but not by us. We will continue to support the Afghan people. I welcome the new mandate, but it is clear that the human rights situation is getting worse, especially for women and girls. The Taliban has not fulfilled any of its commitments. And now we see the miserable situation of girls being prevented from going to school — their basic right to education. We need sustained international pressure on the Taliban to reopen education in full to all girls and women. It is awful that we have to continue discussing these basic rights, but we are doing so because they are not being respected.”

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  3. “I am in charge of coordinating communication between the parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in order to try arrange a return to the fulfilment of the deal and to ensure its implementation. I have to say that the basic elements and terms to do this are known and on the table. However, the time for decision is now. We cannot continue endlessly discussing collateral issues that are not at the core of the nuclear deal. In the Sahel, the trends are very worrisome. We will stay engaged in the region, with our operations, working with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali. But we do need commitments from local partners, both on the security situation on the ground and the state of democratic governance, because we are also there to provide support in that endeavour.”

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  4. “Moving to the rest of the world, let me make some quick comments on specific regional crises where the EU has a deep stake and where we work closely with the United Nations: In Syria, 11 years into the crisis, we cannot forget the Syrian people. We continue to support Special Envoy Pedersen. We need a solution so that cross- border humanitarian aid can continue to flow. That is absolutely necessary because millions of people depend on it. At the most recent Brussels Conference on Syria, we pledged €4.8 billion for 2022, which represents 75 per cent of the total sum pledged to support the Syrian people. In Iran, I am the Coordinator because the United Nations nominated my predecessor to assume that role, and I inherited that job.”

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  5. “Beyond crisis management and peace operations, the European Union and its member States make large contributions to the work of the United Nations on mediation, peacebuilding and transitions. For example, for the period 2021 to 2022, we tripled our contribution to the Peacebuilding Fund. In that context, I want to underline the strategic nature of cooperation on peace and security between the EU and the African Union. We work together to offer tailor-made forms of support for training, capacity- building and equipment because we want to put into practice our maxim of producing “African solutions to African problems”.”

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  6. “I want to make special mention of our operations in the Mediterranean, off the Somali coasts and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the Mediterranean, the European Union Naval Force Mediterranean Operation IRINI plays a unique role in implementing the United Nations arms embargo and preventing illicit petrol exports from Libya. The European Union Naval Force Operation Atalanta has been successfully helping counter piracy off the coasts of Somalia since 2008, and it is now also addressing other illicit trafficking, including drugs. Between March and April alone, it intercepted 10 tons of narcotics. And the European Union-led peacekeeping force Operation Althea supports the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in maintaining a safe and secure environment in a very difficult and worsening political context.”

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  7. “In support of United Nations efforts, we are ready to look into possible misinterpretation of our sanctions that could lead to overcompliance or market avoidance by some financial and trade actors. We are ready to further clarify to economic operators what is and what is not targeted in our sanctions. We are ready to work with all partners in that regard. We need to work all together in order to prevent these possible effects. Even as war has returned to Europe, it has not stopped anywhere else. That is why the European Union continues to help prevent and solve conflicts and crises around the world. We have 4,000 men and women deployed in 18 crisis-management missions and operations on three continents, always working in close cooperation with the United Nations.”

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  8. “Our sanctions do not prohibit the import and transportation of Russian agricultural goods, food and fertilizers, or the payment for such Russian exports. Furthermore, our financial sanctions only apply on EU territory. We are against secondary sanctions against anyone as a matter of principle and law. Our measures therefore do not affect the ability of third countries to purchase from Russia if they wish. I have been discussing with Secretary-General Guterres, Under-Secretary-General Griffiths and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Secretary-General Grynspan efforts to unblock Ukrainian grain exports in the Black Sea, and we are scanning for preventable difficulties related to the Russian export of food and fertilizers.”

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  9. “On that, the Council has our word. Europe stands by its partners. We support the United Nations role, especially and including the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance. We have already increased our support to some of the most affected regions. The European Union and its member States — what we increasingly call Team Europe — have pledged €1 billion for the Sahel and Lake Chad regions and over €600 million for the Horn of Africa. We have also put in place a €225 million food facility to assist our partners in the Middle East and North Africa. Let me add a word on sanctions and respond directly to Russian disinformation. Our sanctions are not the cause of food shortages. They target only the Kremlin’s ability to finance the military aggression — not the conduct of legitimate trade.”

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  10. “It is not us who are bombing the storages of grain. It is not us who are blocking the export with our navy. We fully support the United Nations efforts so that Ukraine can reopen its ports and resume its deliveries of grain to the world. That must be a top priority of the international community. The easiest way to do that is for Russia to stop its aggression, withdraw its troops from all Ukrainian territory and, finally, work with the United Nations and others to reopen the Black Sea. Only Russia can do that. The military risks to commercial navigation in the area inevitably drive up the cost of insurance and transport. That is fuelling the current crisis by unavoidable price increases, which, once again, are not the consequences of European sanctions. Until such time comes, we will have to deal with the global consequences of this war.”

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  11. “They cannot reach global markets because they are being blocked. That is the equivalent of 300 massive ships, which should be docking at ports all over the world. If they do not transport those millions of tons of wheat, someone will suffer hunger. But, instead of contributing to those millions of tons being exported, Russia is bombing Ukraine’s ports. It is bombing the storage of wheat. It is bombing infrastructure and farmland. Just after President Putin spoke with the Chairperson of the African Union, who went to see him in order to express the African concerns about what was happening, Russian forces bombed Ukraine’s second- largest grain silo, in Mykolaiv. At the same time, they claimed that it was the European sanctions that were preventing Ukrainian and Russian wheat from being exported. What is happening speaks for itself.”

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  12. “The World Food Programme (WFP) estimates that the number of food-insecure people doubled from 135 million before the pandemic to 276 million at the start of 2022. Immediately afterwards, with the start of the war, that number has now increased to 323 million people. We have therefore lost all the gains that we had made in the fight against hunger, and we are going backwards in the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals. That is why I must urge all Council members to help to end the war, restore Ukraine’s sovereignty and ensure that the global fallout is being contained, especially, most important, the increasing food crisis affecting millions of people around the world. Those people will starve because now more than 20 million tons of Ukrainian grain cannot reach global markets.”

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  13. “At the European Union, we are fully mobilized to keep Ukraine economically afloat and militarily able to defend its people, its territorial integrity and its democracy. I take this opportunity to call on every member of the European community, be they big or small, to help Ukraine by doing the same. I think that, in the face of such an aggression, no one can be neutral. What does neutral mean in this case? Being neutral means being on the side of the aggression. No one can live safely in a world where the illegal use of force is normalized or tolerated. Once again, this war is sending ripple effects throughout the world. Those compound a pre-existing food crisis, with yields suffering because of climate change before the war.”

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  14. “A war or major security crisis in one region affects everyone, everywhere. It is also impossible to compartmentalize, to look for small pieces and to think that security tensions will not affect the economy. We are witnessing that. The economy is being strongly affected by price increases and shortages in energy and food. It is going to create inflation and high interest rates. We are facing a big world economic crisis. We can see that from the shockwaves that the war against Ukraine is sending around the world. It is exacerbating previous tensions over food and energy that existed before the war. But that has now been exacerbating the situation, and it threatens to disrupt the global balances and to lose past gains in the fight against hunger, for example.”

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  15. “I unhappily have to say that Russia’s war against Ukraine has come on top of such structural problems and has amplified them. It is now threatening to create a new one, which is hunger. The war has already left tens of thousands dead and more than 5 million refugees and displaced Ukrainians. This is the fastest growing refugee crisis since the Second World War. The war is taking place on European soil, in Europe, but this is not a European war. This is an attack on the foundations of the United Nations and the Security Council by a permanent member of the Council, making someone believe that it is happening in another way in which they are not directly affected. That is not true. Everyone is being affected. In a globalized world, faraway does not exist. Everything is close to everyone.”

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  16. “In recent years, we have seen more distrust, more point-scoring and more vetoes at the United Nations. That has a price. The price has been paid in terms of problems not being solved, wars and conflicts that fester and people left at the mercy of events. When we met last year (see S/PV.8792), I talked about a deficit in multilateralism — supply and demand not matching. That situation has only worsened since then. The Charter of the United Nations has entrusted the Security Council to maintain international peace and security. To sit on the Security Council is therefore a great responsibility. The world needs the Council to be able to take decisions and protect the people whose lives — we are talking about people’s lives — depend on it.”

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  17. “The major global trends and challenges, for which we need global cooperation, are becoming worse and worse. The supply and demand of multilateralism do not match. There is a strong demand for an approach to global problems based on multilateralism, but the supply is not following because the speed and scale of cooperation are falling short of what is needed to manage the global commons. The most popular one is climate change and, more recently, fighting pandemics. Climate change, vaccines and the digital revolution are global commons that require an approach based on multilateralism. In each case that I mentioned, science and technology are advancing, but diplomacy and rule-making are not, or are not enough. That is why we have been witnessing a rise in power political competition. The competition among power politics is back.”

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  18. “And while it is certainly easier to cooperate with friends and like-minded people, it is still necessary to cooperate with countries that are not friends or of like mind. We need to cooperate in spite of our differences. We have always been a strong supporter of the United Nations, investing in it politically and financially, which is important. We pay our dues in full and on time. We back major United Nations initiatives such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and we work on human rights. We cooperate closely here in New York and in the field in a number of areas, starting with crisis management operations. The European Union works with the United Nations as its most important partner. In spite of that, the hard truth is that today the multilateral system is under pressure as never before.”

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  19. “All States, no matter their size or political orientation, have committed to respecting international law and core principles, and first and foremost to refraining from the use of force in international relations. The European Union claims, and I believe it is right, that multilateralism is in its DNA and is intrinsic to its way of being. We are multilateral by nature. It is one of our deepest convictions that that we need agreed rules — not imposed rules — to tame the passions of States, provide public goods, guarantee fair competition among economic actors and ensure that there is global cooperation even among States with different ideologies. Even when our ideas about organizing our societies differ, we need to cooperate.”

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  20. “The United Nations was created 76 years ago to save humankind from the scourge of war and build a system of global cooperation, safeguarding the sovereign equality of all human beings and protecting the rights of both States and people. Gradually, the United Nations developed into a whole system of rules, norms and organizations, dealing with the full range of international relations. The United Nations has always been the embodiment of the bigger idea that we share one planet and need global governance to live together peacefully and sustainably, and it has continued to play its role even in the worst moments. At the height of the Cold War, it kept functioning. The bedrock of it all was respect for the international rule of law. It is the bedrock of the United Nations system.”

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  21. “Mr. Borrell: I thank you, Madam President, for giving me this opportunity to speak and for the great work that Albania is doing at the United Nations and as a future member of the European Union (EU). I very much regret that I am unable to be in the Security Council in person. I had planned to travel to New York to attend today’s meeting, but the pandemic is not over yet. I tested positive in Jordan two weeks ago and have now tested positive again, so I had to cancel the trip. Nevertheless, we have an opportunity here to have our exchange via video link. I thank everyone for the attention. We are certainly meeting at a historic juncture. We are all very aware of that.”

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