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Dzhaparova

lines on the record: 23
first: 2023-01-12
most recent: 2023-01-13
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-security-council

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“It is also the common goal of those who understand that if a bigger country attacks a smaller country, no one in this Chamber — and therefore no one in their respective countries — can feel secure. However, we can ensure that security by working together shoulder to shoulder, hand to hand and heart to heart. We can make it.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“We live our lives with dignity, cherishing our unity and ability to resist, cheering each other up with words of love and support, sharing food, clothing and candles, mourning our heroes and rejoicing over our newborns. And we are happy to see people in the streets. I even feel happy in a traffic jam. Can anyone imagine feeling happy in a traffic jam? We are now becoming experts on generators. And our most common New Year’s Eve and Christmas Eve wish to each other was victory. The victory of Ukraine is not only the greatest wish of millions of my compatriots who — dare I say — are standing against neocolonialism and the restoration of empire and have been fighting for the country’s independence, with no more fear.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“Life in my country may seem unimaginable for many — cooking with firewood, saving water in plastic bottles to drink, wash dishes and flush the toilet, reading and doing homework by candlelight, doing laundry in a basin, having to take a healthy walk of 20 floors or more instead of using the elevator, sleeping dressed in a coat, hat and gloves, and hiding from bombs in the shelters. Those are problems facing many vulnerable countries that the upcoming Sustainable Development Goals Summit and the Summit of the Future are supposed to address. I could keep on reflecting on the medieval lifestyle in Ukraine, but my main point is completely different. You can hardly find anyone complaining, in my country. Everyone is like a Ukrainian soldier in the trenches. We manifest dignity despite all the threats and inconveniences.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“The sooner Ukraine recovers, the sooner it can again fully focus, as a reliable partner and active contributor, on resolving global challenges such as climate change, food insecurity, poverty, conflicts and many others that affect the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Everyday life for people in Ukraine today looks exactly like what the United Nations has committed itself to countering and overcoming: there is war and insecurity, a lack of access to basic things such as water and electricity, poverty and environmental degradation.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“It is clear that there is no room for compromise with evil, because if Ukraine stops fighting, it will die. The world as we know it will die. If Russia stops its aggression, the war will end. It is as simple as that. However, even after the victory, there will be many challenges to address. According to our most recent estimates, the total amount of damage caused to Ukraine’s civil and critical infrastructure exceeds $127 billion. Ukraine’s recovery will be one of the largest investment projects. Ukraine has now become Europe’s biggest construction site, providing a wide range of opportunities for international partners to implement the best practices in the areas of engineering, construction and technology transfer.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“The Council’s support of the relevant draft resolution is a sign of hope for every single Ukrainian whose life has been dramatically affected by Russia’s war. My next point is dedicated to defence assistance and weapons. Air defence systems are still a top priority, as Russia continues its missile terror across Ukraine. As a result, almost half of our energy infrastructure is damaged. Millions of Ukrainians have to spend their evenings and nights by candlelight, because they have no electricity. For its part — even as it is under unprecedented attack — Ukraine continues to share not only values and dignity, but also very practical things, such as its Grain from Ukraine initiative. And I thank the United Nations and a number of our partners for supporting that humanitarian initiative of my President.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“And that is exactly what has been happening. While Russia has been declaring its openness to give full access to international delegations and monitoring missions — for instance in Olenivka — it has in fact not opened itself up to monitoring because it dreams of hiding its own crimes. In the case of Olenivka, for our part, we have of course given all the necessary guarantees for such access and a fact-finding mission. We regret that Russia failed to do so. The International Criminal Court in The Hague, which is investigating Russia’s crimes against Ukraine, does not have sufficient jurisdiction and power to prosecute Russia’s aggression. We therefore believe that the only way to restore justice is through the establishment of an international mechanism or a special tribunal.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“We were to be briefed by the Secretary- General’s special envoy, Dutch ambassador Robert Serry, and he was not there for two hours. The rumour was that he had been kidnapped — seized by the so- called self-defence guys. And I was actually the first one to find him, in one of the cafeterias in the centre of Simferopol, and I acted as a communicator between him and the Russian Federal Security Service. He was given an ultimatum to leave Crimea as soon as possible. The last thing he relayed to me when we were together at the airport in Simferopol — because we were taken there by the Russian Federal Security Service in a convoy by fully equipped people — was that he would report all of the details of the issues with his travel to the Secretary-General, because he was not able to exercise his mandate.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“That is why it is a matter of paramount importance to establish a special tribunal to hold Russian war criminals accountable. In almost 11 months, the aggressor State has already committed more than 64,000 registered war crimes. And I dread to think how many more mass graves — like those discovered in Bucha, Izyum and Lyman — will be discovered after the full liberation of our territories. Those terrifying crimes would not be possible without the so-called mother of crimes — the crime of aggression — which started in my native Crimea in 2014. I would like to share with the Council a personal story of mine dating from March 2014, when I lived in Crimea and was a journalist travelling the entire peninsula to collect evidence of Russia’s crime of aggression.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“That also applies to Belarus, which hypocritically denies its actual participation in the war, and Iran, which supplies drones to Russia, which continue to represent an indispensable means for implementing Russia’s missile-terror strategy. More than once, Ukraine has officially requested the Secretary-General and the Secretariat to send experts to Ukraine to investigate Iran’s supplies of unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia. Today I reiterate that request and hope that the mission will be dispatched as soon as possible, because the delay undermines the credibility of the Security Council, as well as its ability to ensure the implementation of its own decisions, in particular resolution 2231 (2015). Our efforts to restore peace and security cannot be complete without steps to ensure justice.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“And although we have not won yet, Russia has already lost. For its final defeat and for our democracies to achieve victory, further joint action is needed. In that regard, my message is very clear: we need to reinforce sanctions in sectors of particular economic importance to Russia. A full oil and gas embargo, as well as the disconnection of Russian banks from the global financial system, is the price the aggressor State should pay. As Russia finds itself in total isolation, it hastily intensifies its ties with other pariahs, with Moscow irresponsibly getting them ever-more involved in its bloody war. We cannot allow those who assist Russia in committing its horrific war crimes to avoid responsibility.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“When Russia destroys grain fields and farms in Ukraine, families from many countries in need suffer from food shortages and poverty. Our peace formula is therefore aimed at ensuring security in all its dimensions — with respect to food security, radiation safety, nuclear safety, energy security and countering ecocide — and preventing such aggression from being repeated in the future. We all need to develop enhanced security guarantees in order to ensure that this tragedy will never recur. We call on all responsible nations to facilitate and promote the peace formula plan. We should also be united in strengthening our further pressure on Russia to destroy its war machine. Even though it denies it, the aggressor State has already felt the impact of sanctions. Its invading army is running out of modern weapons and ammunition.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“It is our shared responsibility to restore peace and justice, make every provision of the Charter of the United Nations operational and guarantee a safe and prosperous future for our children, grandchildren and all generations to come. That is our historic mission and the legacy that we will all leave together. My President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has initiated a peace formula to meet the pressing challenges of the world. It consists of 10 points that will enable us to restore security and justice to Ukraine and the entire world. The formula, which is quite simple, is based on the purposes and principles of the Charter. As we all see, Russia’s war impacts the entire world, because today our States and peoples are very much interconnected.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“More than 7 million additional Ukrainians have become internally displaced persons (IDPs), on top of the 1.5 million people who — like myself when I left my home in Crimea — had already become IDPs as of 2014. Today the battle for Donbas is at its height. The cities of Bahkmut and Soledar are now the major hotspots of the military action. What happens there surpasses the most horrific pictures of the First and Second World Wars. There are ruins instead of residential buildings, emptiness and dead bodies instead of joyful crowds, charred tree trunks instead of forests and moon-like surfaces instead of grain fields.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“Since the Security Council’s previous meeting on Russia’s war against Ukraine (see S/PV.9208), the situation on the ground has further deteriorated. The active front line with Russia is 1,500 kilometres long, and the total combat line spans 4,000 kilometres. Ukraine has been turned into the world’s largest minefield, covering 175,000 square kilometres. The majority of Russia’s missile and drone attacks — 62 per cent of all strikes — have been directed at civilian infrastructure. Thousands of residential buildings, houses, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, museums, religious buildings, electricity grids, water grids, railways and markets have been either destroyed or heavily damaged. More than 7 million of my compatriots, mostly women and children, have been roaming all around the globe, separated from their homes and families.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“I would like to start by expressing my immense appreciation to everyone who has expressed support to Ukraine in the fight not only for its existence but also for the existence of the whole world — based on rules, order, international law and respect for the most fundamental principles, such as territorial integrity and sovereignty, as well as human dignity and freedom. I regret that evil’s messenger is still here — in the seat of a permanent member of the Security Council — the seat of the Soviet Union. Its representatives constantly poison the discussions held here and cynically lie to all of us. I reiterate what my country’s delegation has already pointed out: the legal grounds for such a presence are more than dubious, if not absent.”
2023-01-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9243 (2023) · source
“In conclusion, I believe that standing with Ukraine today — and with our amazing, incredibly brave people — is standing on the right side of the history. It means protecting the most basic, universal things. That is also a matter of justice and accountability, and I believe that to be the kind of world in which most of humankind wants to live.”
2023-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9241 (2023) · source
“The only way to achieve that goal is to hold Russia accountable for its war crimes, just as the Nazi leadership was. Almost 78 years ago, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union signed the London Agreement and the Charter of the International Military Tribunal. Those documents paved the way for the Nuremberg process. That is exactly what we should be doing today, establishing a special tribunal for the crime of aggression. We call on Member States to support a specific draft resolution on the establishment of a special international mechanism, which we are calling a special tribunal, a draft resolution that we are going to submit for the consideration of the General Assembly later this year.”
2023-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9241 (2023) · source
“Even while under unprecedented attack, we launched the “Grain from Ukraine” initiative, which is a humanitarian effort to protect those most in need. We invite all nations to join efforts to contribute to restoring peace and the rule of law by facilitating and promoting the implementation of the peace formula plan. The topic of this debate is the promotion and strengthening of the rule of law, but how can we talk about the rule of law without justice? Imagine a mother who has just lost her newborn baby, as happened in the Zaporizhzhya region in November when Russia attacked a maternity hospital. She obviously needs justice. She needs answers to her questions. She needs to know that those who are responsible for that horrific crime will be punished. Accountability and the restoration of justice are a key point of our peace formula.”
2023-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9241 (2023) · source
“More than 77 years ago, the founders of this Organization developed a document that underpins a world order based on rules. However, we all have to work every day to make that document operational. That is why all 10 points of the peace plan are based on the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, with one of them specifically about its implementation. The world needs nuclear safety. We cannot allow countries to further resort to nuclear blackmail. That will be possible only once Russia withdraws all its troops from the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and completes its demilitarization. I am sure that no one in this Chamber can deny the urgency of food security in guaranteeing one of the fundamental human rights, the right to food.”
2023-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9241 (2023) · source
“Instead of the nine hours that the trip from Kyiv to New York used to take, it now takes 36 hours to reach United Nations Headquarters. That is not the worst of what we are suffering. Since 24 February, the occupiers have cut short the lives of 453 children for nothing. Every day, as I enter my office in the Ministry, I see photographs of Crimean Tatar girls and boys whose fathers have been illegally sentenced by the Russian occupiers in revenge for their pro-Ukrainian stance, allegedly for being Muslim extremists. It is my everyday personal reminder that we must restore justice and security. It is precisely to that end that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has initiated the peace formula. We believe that its 10 points can restore security and justice not only to Ukraine but to the entire world.”
2023-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9241 (2023) · source
“The law of force that Russia has been barbarically practicing today against Ukraine gives a clear signal to everyone in this Chamber that no one is secure anymore. If a country that abuses the rights and privileges of a permanent member of the Security Council attacks another Member State, it means one thing only — security has been ruined, international peace has been called into question and the rule of law has been brutally abused. As our open debate is taking place here in New York, people in Bakhmut, in Soledar, in Mykolaiv, in Kherson and many other Ukrainian cities are dying every day. Ukrainians spend days and nights in basements because of Russian shelling. We have no basic things — no electricity, no water supply and no heating in the winter. For example, I packed my suitcase for New York by candlelight.”
2023-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9241 (2023) · source
“Ukraine highly appreciates the initiative of the presidency of Japan to hold this important debate. As is rightly pointed out in the concept note for this meeting (S/2023/1, annex), “[w]e need to remind ourselves that we should pursue the rule of law, instead of rule by force”. In his statement at the beginning of today’s debate, the Secretary-General said that the rule of law is the very basis of our interactions and culture of interactions. For my country, it is evident that, if it is a culture, the rule of law always goes with other notions, such as responsibility and accountability. In my country, it is very clear — it is black and white — who is responsible for the harsh times that we are living through and that this country, which is responsible for the crimes that we see, should be held accountable.”
2023-01-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9241 (2023) · source