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Kuleba

lines on the record: 34
first: 2022-09-22
most recent: 2023-08-24
sittings or episodes: 4
sources: un-security-council

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“Mr. Kuleba (spoke in a language other than an official language of the Security Council, without providing interpretation):”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“Mr. Kuleba (spoke in a language other than an official language of the Security Council, without providing interpretation):”
2023-08-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9404 (2023) · source
“Please honour the sacrifice and keep assisting us in bringing peace closer. Ukrainians will always be grateful for the support of the Security Council, and our victory will also be its victory against the scourge of aggression in the world.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“We firmly believe that the future reform of the Security Council needs to include an essential component, the decision to deprive Russia of its illegally obtained status as a permanent member and the veto right that comes with it. The Security Council and the entire world will become a much healthier place once Russia is out of the Council. While some international organizations are paralysed by fear of poisonous Russian influence, it is a Ukrainian soldier who assumes responsibility for maintaining peace and security in the world today. A Ukrainian soldier restores peace and security with each step forward and each liberated settlement in Ukraine, basically putting into action what the Security Council is supposed to maintain and enforce. That comes at a steep cost. But there is no other choice.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“The Security Council has been unable to take concrete actions in accordance with Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter for more than 500 days of Russia’s full-scale invasion, as well as for more than nine years of its aggression, and that applies not only to the case of Ukraine but to other conflicts raging in the world. The root problem is well known, and its name can be found on the fourth plate to the right of the presidency. Despite the fact that this plate was placed on the table more than three decades ago, the United Nations Charter still says nothing about the legitimacy of its presence in this Chamber.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“I want to believe that the era of Russian crimes, lies and denials is coming to an end. Russia is losing its illegal war against Ukraine. Putin’s regime is getting weaker by the day, and the recent Wagner mutiny has demonstrated that fact not only to the whole world, but also to the Russians themselves. Every defeat on the Russian battlefield brings Putin’s regime closer to realizing the futility of aggression. We should all work together to bring this realization closer, for when the Kremlin’s chief liar realizes that no one believes his lies any longer, he will be forced to call a halt to the war.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“Today Russia remains in full control and bears full responsibility for the situation there. Russia is also spreading ridiculous conspiracy theories about Ukraine allegedly planning an attack on the plant. Whether it is the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17, the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, or any other major Russian crime, the Russians’ strategy remains the same: kill, lie and deny. I take this opportunity to say it again officially and unequivocally. Ukraine has never had and cannot have any intention of causing any incidents at our own nuclear power plants in our own country. The only force that has the capacity and the motives to cause any such incident is Russia. By acting together and calling out liars now, we can prevent them from executing their malicious plans.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“Russia must stop playing hunger games with people around the world. I call on all States Members of the United Nations to firmly demand that Russia resume its participation in the deal in good faith and stop its hunger games. Russia must keep politics out of global food security. I must also draw the attention of the Council to another threat that Russia poses. Since Russia occupied the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in March 2022, Ukraine and neighbouring nations have been living in fear of a nuclear incident. Russia has violated all seven nuclear safety and security pillars of the International Atomic Energy Agency by stationing its military at the plant and turning it into a military base. Despite international pressure, Russia refuses to withdraw from the plant.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“As of now, Russia has fully blocked the functioning of the Black Sea Grain Initiative even without announcing its termination. Whatever Russia is saying to excuse its behaviour, it should be noted that, while blocking our ports, Moscow is increasing exports of its own grain, including that which was stolen from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Last year, when the Initiative was introduced, grain prices around the world immediately dropped. Together with other factors, it had a positive long-term effect. In June 2023, prices were 23 per cent lower than they were in March 2022, when Russia started the illegal blockade of our seaports. The immediate outcome of Russia pulling out of the deal now will be that prices will go up again, hurting those most vulnerable, primarily in Asia and Africa.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“This blackmail affects the lives of millions of Ukrainians and tens of millions more around the world, primarily in Africa and Asia, who face the threat of rising food prices and hunger. Ukraine makes no demands in relation to the deal. We simply wanted to continue operating and expand the Initiative’s capacity. We want our grain to be freely exported and reach foreign customers all around the world. At the same time, Russia has been systemically obstructing the Initiative’s normal functioning. Russia deliberately decreased the number of inspections at the Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul, limiting the capacity to one or two vessels per day. On 29 April, Russia fully blocked the functioning of Ukraine’s Pivdennyi seaport. The last grain vessel departed the port of Odesa on 16 July.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“The Dutch trial finally put an end to all the Russian nonsense. The court determined that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 was hit by a Russian Buk missile fired by armed groups controlled by Moscow and that the missile system was returned to Russia after the strike. The bottom line is that no number of lies can change the truth and pervert justice. In every situation, the Russian strategy is to kill, lie and deny. Our strategy should be the opposite: strength, truth and accountability. Today we are facing two more situations of this kind. The first was another set of lies and denials we have heard in this room. The second is Russia’s killing of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. Russia is blackmailing the world.”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“I thank the United Kingdom presidency of the Security Council for convening today’s meeting. My gratitude also goes to Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing. Today marks nine years since Russia shot down civilian airliner Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Ukraine mourns the victims of this crime. The case of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 is also a prime example of Russian lies and abuse of its illegal presence at the Security Council. Instead of admitting guilt and cooperating with the investigation, Russia chose to promote conspiracy theories in order to confuse the public. In 2015, Russia shamelessly used its Security Council veto to prevent the establishment of a relevant international tribunal, despite its own denial of responsibility (see S/PV.7498).”
2023-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9380 (2023) · source
“In 1991, Russia usurped the seat of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a permanent Security Council member and turned it into the throne of impunity. The future of Russia in the United Nations should be determined in the context of the illegitimate change of plates from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to Russia in 1991 and responsibility for crimes committed on the territory of Ukraine, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. I say it again and again — peace means justice, and all the peace-loving nations will win peace on the battlefield and at the diplomatic table. Finally, on this tragic day, as we mourn lives and destinies broken by Russia, I kindly ask everyone to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the aggression.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“The geography of Russian crimes against international peace and security goes far beyond the borders of Ukraine and reaches Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Russia not only incites conflicts, but also systematically obstructs the Security Council decisions needed to resolve them. Today Russia argued that the Council is overly focused on Ukraine and ignores problems in the rest of the world. Let us all remember the truth — Russia is the problem of the world. I open the United Nations Charter and I do not see the words “Member States can attack other Member States at their will”. I do not see the words “violating borders is allowed”. Furthermore and most important, I do not see the words “the Russian Federation” in the Charter on the list of permanent Security Council members.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Any supply of weapons or military equipment to Russia means complicity in the trampling of the Charter. Whoever gives weapons to Russia is committing a crime. In the short term, Ukraine needs to restore its sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders. In the long term, justice must be served. The verdict of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal was crystal clear: a war of aggression is not only a war crime; it is the supreme international crime, distinguishing itself from other war crimes only in that it contains the accumulated evil of the whole. We therefore call for the establishment of a special tribunal with specific jurisdiction over the crime of aggression against Ukraine and with the ability to deal with the personal immunities of the principal perpetrators of that crime.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“The support will only grow stronger. You think that Ukraine will eventually tire of defending itself? The more and the longer you keep attacking Ukraine, the more resolve we will have and the more humiliating your defeat will be. Russian propaganda has fabricated this hypocritical narrative that supplying Ukraine with weapons fuels the war. Ukraine indeed needs weapons, just as a firefighter needs water to extinguish a fire, the fire that is destroying your home and killing innocent people. The sooner and the more we get, the sooner the fire will be extinguished. Arming a country that defends itself from aggression is absolutely legitimate and is an act of defending the United Nations Charter. On the contrary, helping an aggressor is illegitimate and defies the Charter.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Their lives and their rights are at the centre of our struggle for peace. The magnitude of the humanitarian crisis brought on by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine cannot be overstated. I would like to highlight here one of the numerous horrendous facts — Russia is now implementing in Ukraine what is probably the largest instance of State-sponsored kidnapping of children in modern history. Ukraine will resist as it has done so far, and Ukraine will win. Putin is going to lose much sooner than he thinks. Here is what Russian officials and servicemen have to know. You think you will get away with what you did? No, you will end up on trial. You will be testifying about how strongly you were opposed to the aggression and how you just followed orders. You think that the world will get tired of supporting Ukraine?”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“We need to act jointly and quickly: to ensure nuclear safety and security, by forcing Russia to withdraw from the illegally occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant and stopping missile attacks that endanger nuclear power plants across the territory of Ukraine; to avoid the threat of hunger, by furthering the Black Sea Grain Initiative and countering Russian efforts to undermine it, as well as by developing our Grain From Ukraine initiative; to prevent an energy crisis, which will require the cessation of Russian missile terror against the critical infrastructure of Ukraine; and to protect the environment, as the Russian shelling that has burned millions of hectares of Ukrainian forests threatens our efforts to counter global warming. But first and foremost, people must be saved.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Obviously, any new peace proposals should now be aligned with the demands set forth by the Assembly’s resolution. We invite all countries from every corner of the world to facilitate the implementation of the resolution and the peace formula.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“First of all, I would like to thank the presidency of Malta for convening this important meeting. The General Assembly just adopted a resolution (General Assembly resolution ES-11/6) on the principles of a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine. One hundred and forty-one Member States took the side of the Charter of the United Nations, while seven took the side of Russia. No additional explanations are required. The resolution follows the logic of President Zelenskyy’s peace formula. The goal of his 10-point plan is to restore respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, in full compliance with the United Nations Charter, which we all have committed to respect and uphold. In brief, the goal of the plan is to get Russia out of Ukraine and make the world a safer place.”
2023-02-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9269 (2023) · source
“Ukraine continues to work with partners to realize the vision of the Kyiv Security Compact. That is our added value to international peace and security for all States Members of the United Nations.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Russia has badly damaged that principle, and the threat of war is now hanging over everyone’s head. To restore international peace and security, we need urgent and decisive action. Yesterday President Zelenskyy proposed a peace formula (see A/77/PV.7), which includes not only accountability but also a mechanism of security guarantees based on Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. Ukraine developed the Kyiv Security Compact, which proposes a modern multilayered mechanism of guarantees to ensure Ukraine’s security until the moment that it becomes part of NATO. However, that document is much broader than a tool to only guarantee the security of Ukraine. We see it as a universal mechanism that can be considered by, and applied to, other countries and contexts in order to strengthen regional and global security architectures.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“There is no place for neutrality. In February, here at the United Nations, I said that no nation would be able to sit out this crisis created by Russia (see A/76/PV.58). That still stands. The best reaction to the crisis is to stand with Ukraine to protect the United Nations Charter. Russia likes to talk about the developed world and the developing world. It tries to drive a wedge between one and the other. We in Ukraine do not differentiate. All people deserve a normal life, safety, stability and confidence. But we must stay united to stop Russia’s blackmail and the war that it launched on humankind. The most important pillar of international peace and security is the territorial integrity of States. No country is allowed to change internationally recognized borders by force.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Despite our own dire situation, we decided to provide humanitarian aid to Ethiopia and Somalia, sending them an additional amount of our grain. Ukraine is interested in increasing maritime export volumes, both under the World Food Programme and in line with market conditions. While striking peaceful Ukrainian cities with missiles, Russia uses food and energy as weapons against the rest of the world. Putin sends tanks into Ukraine to kill Ukrainians, while stealing the well- being and stability of every European household with energy blackmail and playing hunger games with Asian, African and Middle Eastern families by threatening the functioning of the grain corridor. We are in the same boat. As Europeans, Asians, Africans, Arab nations, Latin American States, we are all in the same boat, and we must confront such threats together.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“The resumption of Ukrainian exports has tamed food prices and allowed the acute food insecurity to be eased, especially for the most vulnerable. Today the Black Sea Grain Initiative is under threat. Russian officials are questioning the effectiveness of the corridor and may prepare to block the extension of the Grain Initiative once the agreed 120 days come to an end in November. We must not allow Russia to resume its hunger games with the world. I therefore urge all nations, especially those that depend on Ukrainian food exports, to put maximum public and diplomatic pressure on Moscow, demanding to keep the Black Sea grain corridor functioning in November and beyond. We need to protect the vital Grain Initiative together. Ukraine remains a global food security guarantor.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“The consequences of that crime are felt far beyond Ukraine. Once Russian warships had blocked Ukrainian seaports, it became clear that Ukrainian agricultural exports were vital to global food security. Russia has demonstrated that it is ready to put millions of people across Asia, Africa and the Middle East at risk of hunger simply to achieve its imperialist goals. I take this opportunity to thank Secretary-General António Guterres and Türkiye for facilitating the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which allowed Ukraine to resume maritime grain exports this summer. Putin recently lied when he said that most of the grain had been sent to European countries. In fact, two thirds of the grain that we shipped went to consumers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“The global security crisis that we all face is much larger. All Council members must realize that on 24 February Russia not only attacked Ukraine; it also dealt a deadly blow to the very foundations of the Charter of the United Nations. No nation can feel safe until Russia is held to account for violating the common principles agreed by all after the Second World War. Russia does not care for them, but there are 192 other States Members of the United Nations. Nations of Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe are all interested in upholding the United Nations Charter today, and Ukraine is fighting to defend the principles of that Charter, especially that of territorial integrity. Russia’s war of aggression has plunged the world into a multifaceted crisis.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“They think that seat allows them to violate borders in a nineteenth-century style imperialist conquest. They think it allows them to shell nuclear power plants and seize them. They think that it allows them to unleash missile terror on civilians and critical infrastructure. They think that it allows them to threaten the world with the use of nuclear weapons. They must be held accountable for all of that. The issue of responsibility is central to the debate. We need to ensure that such behaviour is punishable. Otherwise, every evil force in the world will be tempted to follow in Russia’s footsteps. I do not need to remind anyone at this table how many forces on the planet would like to question the borders of their neighbours. If Russia can do that, why cannot they? Today we are talking not only about Ukraine and Russia.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Apparently, the only thing in Russia’s statement today — a torrent of lies — that warrants a reaction is the inappropriate slang used when mentioning a President of a foreign country, namely, the President of Ukraine. I also noted today that Russian diplomats flee almost as aptly as Russian soldiers. Before 24 February, Russian diplomats here at the United Nations had repeatedly denied plans of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Russian President himself lied in the faces of European leaders, saying that he was not planning to attack. That was just days before the invasion. Russia is shameless. It sits in the chair it occupied in 1991 on dubious legal grounds, armed with the right to veto and a sense of total impunity. Russians are confident that they can get away with anything and are entitled to do anything they want.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“President Zelenskyy was very outspoken about that yesterday. We have never wanted anything but peace and stable development. We never wanted the war and never chose it — we simply want to live a normal life. But it is not enough for Ukraine to want peace. Russia must prioritize diplomacy over war in order to give peace a chance. What we see instead is the Russian leadership seeking a military solution only. This Chamber has seen many heated debates and many crises since 1945, but the amount of lies coming from Russian diplomats is quite extraordinary. Today we are mostly focusing on crimes committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine. But if anyone thinks they are the only ones ready to kill, torture, rape or cut off genitals, they are wrong. Russian diplomats are directly complicit because their lies incite those crimes and cover them up.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“There will be no peace without justice. I emphasize that none of the Russian crimes in Ukraine would have been possible without the crime of aggression against Ukraine committed by the Russian leadership, which cannot go unpunished. The only feasible way to put President Putin and his entourage on trial is to establish a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. I reiterate my call on all States to back that undertaking for the sake of the basic principles of humanity and the Charter of the United Nations. Many of those in this Chamber will be listening to me now with one question in mind: is there a chance for peace? Will Ukraine negotiate with Russia in order to end the war? I want to make it crystal clear that no other nation in the world craves peace more than Ukraine.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“Today every Ukrainian is a weapon ready to defend Ukraine and the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. Russia will fail and will bear full responsibility for the crime of aggression and consequent war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Yesterday President Zelenskyy made it clear in his address (see A/77/PV.7) that Russian responsibility is a key element of international peace and security. Ukrainian law enforcement, together with its partners, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and those countries that support both Ukraine and the ICC, are working actively to collect evidence of Russian crimes and hold perpetrators to account. We trust in the International Criminal Court. Justice will be served. We owe it not only to the thousands of victims, but to future generations in Ukraine and beyond.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“I wear one, too, and I want to show it to the Council. Many of us do. Russia should know one thing: it will never be able to kill all of us. The following is why. On 24 February, when Russia attacked Ukraine from all directions, within the first 24 hours, tens of thousands of Ukrainians returned from abroad to defend their country. What happened within the first 24 hours after President Putin announced mobilization? The opposite: tens of thousands of Russians booked international flights to leave Russia. Many flights were sold out within hours. Yesterday Putin announced mobilization, but what he really announced before the whole world was his defeat. He can draft 300,000 or 500,000 people, but he will never win the war.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source
“I thank the French presidency for keeping the focus of the Security Council on the most pressing threat to international peace and security in this century, namely, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. As we speak, the bodies of innocent victims are still being exhumed from at least 445 graves in the recently liberated city of Izyum. Some are not entire bodies, but parts of them, like a few pairs of children’s legs in one of the graves. The grief of their loved ones is yet another drop in the ocean of suffering that Russia has inflicted upon the people of Ukraine in the seven months and eight years of its barbaric aggression. Many of those here today will have seen the image of a dead hand belonging to a 36-year-old Ukrainian soldier — his name was Sergiy Sova — with a yellow and blue bracelet still on it.”
2022-09-22 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9135 (2022) · source