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Grand Chancellor Paternò di Montecupo

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2023-09-20
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  1. “Allow me to conclude by citing Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris, “[P]eace is but an empty word, if it does not rest upon ... an order that is founded on truth, built up on justice, nurtured and animated by charity, and brought into effect under the auspices of freedom.” Surely that is a formula that respects and echoes the United Nations Charter, and is one to which we should all subscribe if the suffering of the Ukrainian people is not to be in vain.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption2 (2023) · source

  2. “A case in point is the issue of global food security, the rising prices and the dangers caused by shortages in developing nations, particularly Africa. These are greatly exacerbated by this war. The bigger and stronger a world Power, the more significant the responsibility it has, not only for its own citizens, but also for those who live outside its borders, yet rely on it for services and products and for neighbourly support. In the same way, in the community of nations might does not always make right, and strong and powerful peers must exert greater influence and take more responsibility for reining in the behaviour of those that transgress the norms of the United Nations Charter and the rules-based world that it enshrines. They should not subvert or ignore it for their own ends.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption2 (2023) · source

  3. “We are aware that the process could be long, difficult and painful, but there is no alternative if we want to halt, as soon as possible, the human suffering and the worldwide negative economic and social repercussions. We grieve over the infinite waste of resources that is a consequence of war. Government bodies and independent analysts estimate, conservatively, that by the end of 2023 the world economy will have spent $224 billion on this conflict, enough to fund UNICEF for the next 30 plus years. In the brave new world of the twenty-first century, there is no such thing as a regional or a contained war. There will always be implications that go beyond the local and reveal the complex interdependencies that are a consequence of the global context in which we operate.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption2 (2023) · source

  4. “Our Catholic confrères, Caritas-Spes, just this week suffered the destruction of an aid warehouse in Lviv containing 300 tons of aid, the most recent of several attacks on their work and a sad continuation of last year’s attack in Mariupol, which resulted in the death of two aid workers. Yesterday the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Denise Brown, condemned, in the strongest terms, the attack in Lviv. She reiterated her concern about the impact of such attacks on humanitarian workers, facilities and assets, which are protected under international humanitarian law. There is no easy solution to this conflict, but peace remains the only way out of this tragic plight.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption2 (2023) · source

  5. “His words were confirmed this week, when the Ukrainian Ambassador to the Order of Malta, His Excellency Ambassador Andryii Yurash, issued a joint press release with me, attesting to the fact that the contribution to Ukraine by the Order of Malta “represents the most extensive humanitarian operation undertaken by the Order of Malta since the Second World War.” Within the framework of humanitarian assistance, tens of thousands of volunteers and aid workers from the Order of Malta and other bodies have populated borders and checkpoints neighbouring Ukraine since hostilities began, offering aid and comfort. Many millions of refugees have received a warm embrace from foreign neighbours who have set aside cultural differences to serve a common humanity in need. Yet in Ukraine itself, even this week, the carnage and destruction continues.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption2 (2023) · source

  6. “In April of this year the Ukrainian Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, in his meeting in Rome with the Grand Master and the Grand Chancellor of the Order of Malta, expressed the deep gratitude of his country for the work of the Order in Ukraine.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption2 (2023) · source

  7. “Grand Chancellor Paternò di Montecupo: Please allow me to thank the President of Republic of Albania and the Republic’s Ambassador to the United Nations for inviting the Sovereign Order of Malta to contribute to this open debate on a peaceful resolution to conflict in Ukraine. The peace and the security of Ukraine is of concern to us, as it affects not only the peace and security of its 43 million citizens, but also the security of Europe and, by extension, the world. The Sovereign Order of Malta has enjoyed diplomatic relations with Ukraine for the past 15 years, but our involvement and support for the Ukrainian people runs far deeper and stretches back over a quarter of a century. During this period we have provided medical and humanitarian assistance to the people of Ukraine, long before the current hostilities.”

    2023-09-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9421Resumption2 (2023) · source