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Kovachevski

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2023-05-03
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  1. “As an equal part of a federation that was among the founders of the United Nations, but also as a country that 30 years ago acquired its own independent place in the Organization, the Republic of North Macedonia raises its voice and shares its concern regarding a crisis that is weighing on the United Nations, as well as the international legal order, world peace and stability. Aware of the growing risks, we must use the Secretary-General’s New Agenda for Peace as an opportunity to create conditions for united action. Tomorrow will ask us what have we did today, just as today we wonder why we did nothing yesterday. We need peace now and immediately.”

    2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source

  2. “The ongoing Russian military aggression against Ukraine has changed global relations to such an extent that there is an urgent need to reaffirm the legal framework of reference adopted by our founders, whose clear intention was to avoid the horrors of war. This time, as many times before, the Republic of North Macedonia firmly stood on the right side of history, on the side of the democratic and free world, on the side of the right of every country to self-determination. Today all of us together must again stand on the side of peace and recommit ourselves to respect the Charter of the United Nations.”

    2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source

  3. “From a country that 30 years ago was hosting peacekeeping missions, we have become a source of stability and ourselves host international negotiations. It is crucial to strengthen trust in our institutions, the United Nations and justice. In our actions, we should be guided, above all, by the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the peaceful resolution of conflicts, solidarity and the importance of active and permanent engagement wherever it is needed to reduce suffering. In that regard, the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals is fully complementary to the insistence on securing a more peaceful, stable and just world for all. Unfortunately, today we are quite far from realizing that vision.”

    2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source

  4. “We prevented a spillover of the conflict and peace and stability were preserved, saving countless lives and preventing unnecessary destruction. It was also very important that trust was created, while a culture of dialogue was slowly but surely developing as the only way to overcome even the most serious challenges. It is through that culture of open dialogue that 30 years later, North Macedonia has become an exemplary country in terms of resolving outstanding issues both at home and with its neighbours. We have tackled an abundance of difficult decisions that had to be made over those 30 years. We made difficult but imaginative and courageous choices that have enabled us to become a NATO member and begin negotiations with the European Union with a protected and acknowledged Macedonian language, identity and culture.”

    2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source

  5. “During the difficult years of war in the former Yugoslavia, our first President, Kiro Gligorov, showed his wisdom in demonstrating his responsibility and commitment to peace, enabling us to peacefully achieve our independence and international recognition of North Macedonia as an independent and sovereign State. During the wars in our immediate neighbourhood, we had our own national agenda for peace, which necessarily implied ensuring internal consensus but also close cooperation with the United Nations, as well as with regional organizations, primarily the States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the European Union. That was how the necessary conditions were created for the success of UNPREDEP.”

    2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source

  6. “As we have a moral obligation to contribute to the New Agenda for Peace today, we cannot help but reflect on the experiences of the previous Agenda for Peace, in 1992, as well as the beginning of the long-standing first and only preventive United Nations mission to our country of 30 years ago — the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) — which was widely regarded as a successful preventive action. The foundation for peace is strengthened by cooperation and prevention, and we, the Governments of the States Members of the United Nations, are responsible for that. That has been said many times, and in our case it has been proven in practice.”

    2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source

  7. “Mr. Kovachevski (North Macedonia) (spoke in Macedonian; English interpretation provided by the delegation): I would like to congratulate Switzerland on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the first time, and I welcome your call, Sir, to emphasize the importance of issues related to peacebuilding. Today’s debate reaffirms the traditional and flawless commitment of the Swiss Confederation to the noble cause of peace, the peaceful resolution of conflicts and international law. I am especially pleased to be the first Prime Minister of North Macedonia to address the Security Council and to have an opportunity to participate in this discussion today. I believe that our current attitudes should be based on past successes in which the United Nations and the multilateral system have demonstrated their effectiveness.”

    2023-05-03 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9315 (2023) · source