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  1. “Therefore, just as we need to confront our biggest challenges on global poverty, climate change and artificial intelligence collectively, we need effective multilateralism to achieve resolution, to seek justice for the many victims, to rebuild ruined cities and create new opportunities, to get grain exports flowing again, to help put Ukraine back on the path to prosperity and to secure peace. That is what we shall do together.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source

  2. “And in Kharkiv and Kherson, the yellow and blue flag flies high once again. That flag is flying all over the world, reflecting the solidarity we feel towards Ukraine. Yet we might wonder what difference that support makes when Russia seems so impervious to United Nations demands, when it seeks to fuels its aims with arms from sanctioned States such as Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and when it conducts sham elections on Ukraine’s own sovereign territory. The truth is that Russia knows the power of collective action, and that is why it tries so hard to weaken and divide the international community.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source

  3. “Thanks to the destruction of 280,000 tons of grain, the hungry and malnourished people of the developing world are also Russia’s victims. That is why the United Kingdom will contribute a further £3 million to the World Food Programme to continue President Zelenskyy’s Grain from Ukraine initiative. Of course, the only way to end the widespread suffering is through just and lasting peace. Ukraine has demonstrated its commitment to peace time and again, including in Copenhagen and in Jeddah this summer. But this summer Ukrainians have also shown on the battlefield that they are capable of restoring the sovereignty and territorial integrity that must be the foundations of any peace. Ukraine’s counteroffensive has put Russia under pressure. In total, Ukraine has regained 50 per cent of the territory seized since the war began.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source

  4. “Every missile, bomb, false arrest and piece of propaganda has been a flagrant assault not only on freedom but on our multilateral rules-based system. If we allow Russia to lay waste to what we have built here, the risks to the world order, the risks to us all, are grave. For more than a year and half, Ukraine has been suffering the terrible consequences of Russia’s war of choice. We must never forget the human costs — 9,500 civilians killed, 17,000 people injured and reports of half a million military casualties on both sides. Russia has callously targeted schools, hospitals and even playgrounds. Ukrainians have been tortured and raped. Men, women and thousands of children have been forcibly deported from their homes. And the devastation flows beyond Ukraine’s borders.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source

  5. “I am proud to sit here today in solidarity with President Zelenskyy. He and the Ukrainian people have met Russia’s invasion of their country with bravery and courage, and I pay tribute to their fortitude. Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression is not only a fight for freedom but for the principles on which the United Nations itself is based. They are principles underpinned by the Charter of the United Nations, which says that all States’ sovereignty is equal, territorial integrity is inviolable, disputes should be settled peacefully and that we must work together to protect those things. When Russia’s tanks rolled into Ukraine, they trampled on every one of those principles. They have done so ever since.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421 (2023) · source