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Kyslytsya

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first: 2010-10-26
most recent: 2023-12-29
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““We take this opportunity to appeal to the international community to hear our call: the most that peoples can do for the sake of establishing freedom of conscience in Ukraine is to help Ukrainians resist the Russian invasion, which brings death, slavery, darkness and religious oppression.” The appeal is signed by the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine; the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Supreme Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych; the Head of the All-Ukrainian Union of the Churches of Evangelical Christians-Baptists; the Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Crimea; the Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Ukraine; the Ruling Bishop of the Diocese of Kyiv- Zhytomyr of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine; and the President of the Ukrainian Union Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Ukraine.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
““That is why our faithful are fighting at the front, among other things, to ensure that Ukraine continues to be a country where not a single house of worship has been closed in the entire history of its independent existence; where everyone has the right to believe in what he or she considers worthy of belief; where religious minorities feel as comfortable as the churches that unite millions of believers; where, after all, religiously persecuted people from many countries have always found refuge, and Ukraine’s achievements in the field of freedom of conscience are recognized all over the world.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“The war has brought enormous suffering to these people, with the people’s freedom [and] their religious beliefs having effectively become the initial target of the Russian occupiers. “In 11 months, they destroyed or ransacked more than 270 churches and sacred buildings, killed and tortured to death dozens of clergymen. Wherever Russia comes, religious freedom ends. Where Russia is, they torture “wrong” Orthodox Christians, mock Catholics, imprison Muslims for religious beliefs for terms unthinkable even in Soviet times, force Protestants to flee abroad from inevitable repression and persecute Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“We call on the authorities of Russia not to speak on behalf of our Church at international platforms and not to use the religious factor for their own political purposes.” Today a number of Ukraine’s religious leaders — representing Orthodox, Greek, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Evangelical churches, as well as Muslim religious unions — issued an address to the members of the Security Council, which is publicly available, that I would also like to bring to their attention: “We, representatives of religious organizations of Ukraine, appeal to you on behalf of millions of our faithful who, under Russian missiles and shells, pray, work and protect the most valuable gift of God — life on our land, people’s rights and their dignity.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“The comment was made by the very church that the person invited by the Russian delegation just pretended to protect. “The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has not appealed to any State for assistance in protecting its rights, [much less] to the State that has perpetrated a treacherous armed attack on our country. Also, we have not authorized anyone from the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate to speak on our behalf at the United Nations. We are concerned that the issue of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is being raised by structures that have no relation to us.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“It is a real mockery of the Council when an accomplice to crimes against humanity dresses up in the mantel of preacher and explains to the Security Council which denomination in Ukraine should be recognized as a canonical institution and which should be labelled a heretical one. We have just heard from the briefer invited by the Russian delegation, who represents the Russian Orthodox Church. Frankly speaking, it is baffling when a foreign national and a member of a foreign religious organization is invited to brief about the religious situation in another country. In that regard, let me draw members’ attention to the official comment issued by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church yesterday on the intention by the Russian Federation to raise at the United nations the issue of the situation regarding the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“In fact, we propose organizing a special meeting of the Security Council to address the implications of the Russian war of aggression on the human rights situation in Ukraine. It is a matter of regret that the representative of Putin’s regime is still capable of misusing the permanent seat of a defunct country and making the Council listen to its disinformation narratives. Russia still attempts to divert the attention of this organ from the real security threats flowing from its aggression and to create a smokescreen to hide its crimes behind tons of fakes. We have already heard the insane statements about “combat mosquitos”, Ukrainian dirty bombs, chemical weapons, secret labs et cetera. Today the Russian representative went even further.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“Perhaps it would also be useful to invite the High Commissioner for Human Rights to brief the Council on his recent visit to Ukraine, as well as the Head of the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, which has been operating in my country at the invitation of the Government of Ukraine for almost nine years. In particular, the Council could receive an update on Russian war crimes based on the recent thematic report by the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights entitled “Killings of civilians: summary executions and attacks on individual civilians in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions in the context of the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine”. The delegation of Ukraine would strongly support such a development.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“The goal of conflict prevention is completely contrary to interfering in the domestic affairs of countries and undermining their sovereignty, often under the pretext of protecting human rights.” (ibid., pp. 12-13) If the Russian Federation is so interested in discussing the issue of human rights in the Security Council — and once again, the freedom of religion is a human right— perhaps the time has come to return human rights to the Council’s agenda and thoroughly address the Secretary-General’s reports on the human rights situation in occupied Crimea, Ukraine, and the report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, established by the Human Rights Council.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“To advance this work, I encourage close cooperation with my Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.” (ibid., p. 3) The Russian statement at the Security Council’s meeting on that April day in 2017 was pretty clear and straightforward: “ ... the Security Council is not intended to fulfil the tasks of ensuring the observance of human rights and is not adapted to a substantive analysis of the situation in this sphere”; “We do not share the approach of considering human rights violations as the main precondition for armed conflict or human rights protection as a key instrument for preventing them or as a panacea. Practice demonstrates otherwise.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
““The Council has no right to repeat its failures in Rwanda, to continue to fail in Syria, or to remain paralysed by the Russian position in the case of Crimea and Donbas.” (S/PV.7926, p. 7) I concluded by stressing how we sincerely believed that the Secretary-General could skilfully manage all of the tools given to him by the Charter of the United Nations and that he would not hesitate to use them whenever necessary to achieve the implementation of the Charter’s goals and objectives. Let me also recall what the Secretary-General said on that day in the Chamber: “Systematic monitoring and reporting of human rights violations has given a voice to victims and advanced the fight against impunity. Moreover, these efforts offer important warning signals to societies that also highlight the Council’s determination to prevent further abuses.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“Let me therefore recall what I said in this very Chamber on 18 April 2017, when the members of the Security Council — including Japan, by the way, as it was a member of the Council at the time — assembled to discuss the role and place of human rights on the Council’s agenda: “In the 1970s, human rights issues were removed from the agenda of New York and transferred to nice, cosy, sleepy Geneva. It was not only a physical move but, it appears, an ideological divorce of United Nations Headquarters from something that was then perceived as irreconcilably different from the security agenda of New York. It is time to reconcile these differences and to restore the integrity of the entire United Nations system as designed by its founders.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“Were Russia to be a peaceful nation and not one bombing Ukraine today, as Nazi Germany bombed the United Kingdom then, it would be precisely today when they would be celebrating the seventy-seventh anniversary of the Security Council, which took place on 17 January 1946. Unfortunately, we are not here to celebrate this important anniversary. Unfortunately, we are here because of the nonsense that the Russian Federation made us listen to. But as we use taxpayers’ money, it is our duty to make sense of that nonsense — or rather, to make use of that nonsense. The freedom of religion is a human right, as set out in article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other important documents. No matter the nonsense the Russian Federation says today in the Chamber, this discussion is about human rights.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“There is a place called Church House in Westminster that today is the headquarters of the Church of England. The building’s assembly hall was directly hit during the Blitz and yet suffered little damage. Let me recall that the Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941. Casualties and losses included more than 40,000 civilians killed and thousands upon thousands injured. Two million houses were damaged or destroyed. It sounds almost like what Russia is doing today in Ukraine. Members might ask why I mention Church House. It is not because we are talking about religion today, but because the very first meeting of the Security Council (see S/PV.1) took place in Church House, Westminster, London.”
2023-01-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9245 (2023) · source
“In turn, the Ukrainian side, through both its civil and military representatives, demonstrates transparency and a commitment to cooperating fully with our partners, as well as within international export-control regimes. We will continue to act on that basis, as it is fully in line with our main task — the full de-occupation of the sovereign territory of Ukraine within its international recognized borders. Following the defeat of Russia and the end of the war, the demilitarization and denuclearization of Russia should take place. It will prevent the threat of the repetition of aggression, thereby laying a solid foundation for both the transformation of Russia into a peace-loving nation and for ensuring sustainable peace and security. The meeting rose at 6.05 p.m.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“In addition, auditors of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine carry out field inspections of weapons supplied by foreign partners. At the same time, we remain extremely concerned about the activities of illegal armed formations, including the infamous Wagner Group, in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Those formations widely recruit people with criminal backgrounds in Russia and use weapons that are not subject to any control mechanisms, including internal Russian mechanisms. Given the fact that the Wagner Group is reported to operate on other continents as well, the threat of illicit arms trafficking arising from the activities of Russian private military companies is more than real and worth being addressed by the Council and relevant international mechanisms.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“Parliamentary oversight is carried out by the temporary special commission. The President exercises its constitutional duties through the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. A special system called SOTA, implemented there to monitor weapons and equipment supplied by foreign partners, makes it possible to receive information about every single sample of such weapons. At the governmental level, the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with foreign partners, carry out direct control and monitoring, including through the use of the Logistics Functional Area Services system, which allows the monitoring of arms supplies to Ukraine, as well as the movement of international technical assistance.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“The circulation and use of small arms and light weapons has been controlled on an inter-agency level that includes the Ministry of the Interior, the Security Service, the State Border Service and other governmental structures responsible for combating illegal arms trafficking. The State service of Ukraine for export control, as well as the inter-agency commission on military and technical cooperation and export control, are responsible for the practical implementation of the State policy in the area of export control over international transfers of dual-use and military goods, as well as for the implementation of measures to prevent their use for terrorist and other illegal purposes. Ukraine has also established a three-level system of control and supervision for weapons supplied by our foreign partners.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched its operation to liberate the east and south of the country. Since September, thousands of square kilometres in Kharkiv, Kherson and Luhansk regions have been liberated. That is the most powerful and viable evidence that all weapons in Ukraine’s possession serve their intended purpose — to help Ukrainian soldiers to liberate our people and our territories. To prevent their illegal use, Ukraine has created and ensured the effective functioning of a multilevel system of arms control. It is carried out on three tracks: circulation and use of small arms and light weapons, export control and control and supervision of weapons and military equipment transferred by foreign countries.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“What we do know for sure is that, the sooner those territories are liberated, the more Ukrainians can be saved. We will therefore continue to de-occupy our sovereign territories in strict accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations. Anything else would be a betrayal of our compatriots who have been compelled to stay in the occupied territories and are now waiting for liberation. We are grateful to all friends and allies who support Ukraine in this noble endeavour, including by supplying modern weapons. Their use has been an element of Ukraine exercising the inherent right to self- defence under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. Russia brought the same allegations to the attention of the Security Council on 8 September (see S/PV.9127). Let me remind the Council what happened afterward.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“Let me remind the Council that the largest country in the world, the Russian Federation, pays less than 2 per cent of the United Nations regular budget. It hardly covers this debauchery. In this algorithm, one must first blame the victim. The more resolutely the victim resists, the more assistance it receives from responsible nations, the graver the accusations should be. Secondly, the lie should be wrapped up in numerous terms and names, technical characteristics and numbers. All those lies are supposed to make fakes look like facts. In particular, we have never heard from Moscow why mass graves and torture chambers have been found only in the places where Russian troops were deployed. We can only imagine what we will find in the territories that still remain under Russian occupation.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“Of course, there is freedom of speech in this country, including for alumnae of otherwise respectable universities. But for God’s sake, even in this city, where cannabis is now legal, there is no need to fill the Chamber with the smoke of conspiracies. Russia is again attempting to legitimize its flagrant violations of the Charter of the United Nations by using the Council as a platform for circulating its propagandist narratives. It is a very simple algorithm that Moscow has explored since Soviet times. But as Mr. Kovalik himself said, he is an American, and he can say what he wants. Of course he can. But why in the world is he wasting our time. Neither American taxpayers nor ours approve of the frittering away of their money.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“I thank Under-Secretary- General Nakamitsu. I also recognize the remainder of representatives of terrorist Russia in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. It is becoming grotesque, and soon it will not be a surprise to see Leo Tolstoy’s major work called Special Operation and Peace in order to comply with Putin’s laws. After all, it is also a mix of fictional narrative, history and, often, perverse philosophy, like many Russian statements delivered here in the Chamber. If someone tells me to my face that “eastern Ukraine had good reason to join Russia”, or, even more delusionally, that “Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law”, who in their right mind would refer to the author of those statements as an authoritative source at this global watchdog of international law and order?”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“We urge Moscow to cease that illegal practice and to immediately provide the relevant United Nations bodies and international organizations with complete information on the Ukrainian children abducted or deported to its territory, including those who have subsequently been adopted or transferred to foster families. We call on the United Nations authorities, as well as the international community, not to be silent about those crimes and to demand that Russia provide access to those children and facilitate their safe return and family reunification in line with the best interests of the children and in accordance with international law. In November we informed the Security Council of the peace formula plan proposed by”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“He will read his father’s books, and they will warm his heart. Let me ask the Russian diplomats in this Chamber, or what is left of them: what legacy will they leave their children — volumes of lies and shameful attempts to whitewash war crimes and genocide? That is a torturous and painful life to leave one’s children. We remain concerned about the vile practices of family separations and mass deportations of children from the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia. To date, the Ukrainian authorities have identified 12,340 children deported to Russia or to the territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russia. Until now, only 119 deported children have been returned to their relatives in Ukraine.”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“The local residents were forbidden to bury their remains for a long time. That is another episode in the Russian war of aggression. Seven more human lives taken for nothing. Several days ago, a DNA examination confirmed that one of the bodies found in the mass grave in Izyum in the Kharkiv region belonged to a well-known Ukrainian children’s writer, Volodymyr Vakulenko. His village near Izyum was occupied at the very beginning of the invasion and he stayed there because of his son, who has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. As a peaceful civilian, his only guilt in the eyes of Russians was his affiliation with Ukrainian literature. And that was enough for them to detain Mr. Vakulenko at the end of March and to kill him. The teenage son of the Ukrainian writer will live with memories of his father as one of the heroes.”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“Moscow’s vision of peace also means that all Ukrainians in the occupied territories would be left in danger, unprotected from abduction, detention, torture, looting or execution-style killing. In all the Ukrainian territories still under Russian control the occupation authorities regard any local resident as a potential enemy. That is why, while retreating, Russian troops are leaving behind mass graves and torture chambers. That was the case in Kyiv and the northern regions in April, in the Kharkiv region in September and in Kherson last month. At the end of November, Ukrainian law enforcement exhumed a mass grave in the liberated village of Pravdyne, in the Kherson region. According to eyewitness accounts in April, occupiers killed seven people, including a teenage girl, in a private house, which they then blew up.”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“Please keep that in mind every time Moscow attempts to wear sheep’s clothing and persuade us that it is not the aggressor but the victim that resists peace efforts. Ukraine indeed resists, but not peace of course — we resist Moscow’s attempts to erase us from the map. We also resist the Russian strategy to buy time under the guise of peace efforts in order to replenish its military arsenal, build strongholds in the occupied territories and prepare for a new attack, whether in two, or five or seven years. Putin’s representative at this meeting talks about peace, but at the same time his masters in Moscow claim that Russia will not leave the territory of Ukraine. In a nutshell, the so-called peace à la Kremlin would be built on violations of the Charter of the United Nations.”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“Therefore, while the armed forces of Ukraine continue to do their job to defeat Russia militarily, the international community must start considering the modalities of post-Putin arrangements with Moscow, which should include a new Budapest Memorandum to be signed by Moscow in the context of its denuclearization. It remains to be seen how soon after its military defeat and by whom such a document could be signed on behalf of the territory with an administrative centre in Moscow. Such an arrangement would require credible counterparts, and neither Putin nor any of his cronies can be considered trustworthy. Ukraine needs peace, and Ukraine wants peace more than any other country. It is our territory that has been invaded. It is our people who are being killed. It is our homes that are being destroyed and robbed by the Russian army.”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“He also expressed his confidence that “the leaders’ signatures should seal a really milestone document which would cover all the concerns of Ukraine, which is fraternal to us”. The problem is that the post-Soviet transformation in Russia was not underpinned by de-communization or the dismantling of its authoritarian style of leadership and therefore led to Putinism instead of democracy. The lessons of history must be learned this time so that past tragedies are not repeated. After the military defeat of Russia, which is imminent, the de-Putinization and denuclearization of that country must follow. By marking the anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum with a missile strike on Ukraine, the Kremlin finally showed that it has no moral or legal grounds for possessing nuclear weapons.”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“On 5 December 1994 in Budapest, the Kremlin granted security assurances to Ukraine, committing in particular to respect Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and existing borders and reaffirming that none of its weapons “will ever be used against Ukraine”. Almost every single day Russia demonstrates that its assurances are of no worth — whether those that Moscow gave in the past, those of which they speak today or those that they may offer in the future. Indeed, sometimes the Kremlin might seem to take an adequate position, as former President Yeltsin once did. In his letter to former President Clinton dated 2 November 1994, Yeltsin conveyed his readiness “to make a decision now with regard to signing a document on guarantees”.”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“In that regard, we also welcome the readiness of our friends to ensure the provision of immediate assistance to Ukrainians in meeting their urgent needs and strengthening the civilian resilience of the Ukrainian people following the Russian terrorist attacks on their infrastructure. The international conference on standing with the Ukrainian people organized by France and Ukraine, to be held in Paris on 13 December, serves as a good example of such efforts. We encourage United Nations Member States and the leadership of the Secretariat to participate in that event. It speaks volumes that Moscow decided to attack Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and its people on the anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum.”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“Ukrainian armed forces were able to intercept almost 60 of those missiles. We are grateful to the responsible nations throughout the world that contribute to enhancing Ukraine’s air defences, and thereby to saving the lives of innocent civilians. Given the reports on missile fragments being found in the Republic of Moldova following yesterday’s strike by Russia, we reiterate that Russian missile terror poses a dangerous threat, not only to Ukraine but also to its neighbouring countries. The only way to prevent a spillover effect is to continue supporting Ukraine by further strengthening its air-defence and missile-defence capacities.”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“I acknowledge what is left of the delegation of the terrorist Moscow regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union. Today, on Ukrainian Armed Forces Day, I salute Ukraine’s heroic and invincible soldiers, who are fighting for their country, their families, every one of us and our free future. The aggressor will be defeated, the dictatorship will fail and the war criminals will be held to account. This is yet another meeting at which the representatives of the Russian Federation try to convince the Security Council of their country’s readiness for peace. And the hypocrisy of their words has once again been revealed by the deeds of their country on the ground. Yesterday Ukraine sustained another wave of Russian missile terror. More than 70 missiles were launched from aircraft and ships to hit critical infrastructure throughout Ukraine.”
2022-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9208 (2022) · source
“Russia must be stopped — and thanks to the courage of the Ukrainian army, the commitment of the Ukrainian people and international solidarity with Ukraine, Russia will be stopped.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“They actually belong to the former Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, now Putin’s deputy in the Russian security council. I wonder why the Russian delegation refrained from delivering that important update to the Council. Perhaps we should prepare for another urgent Council meeting as soon as Russia finds those who can brief the Council on how to exorcize demons. It would be a logical continuation of both Russia’s attempts to discredit the Security Council and the process of internal moral degradation of the Kremlin. Unfortunately, those morbid reflections have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the bloodiest war in Europe since the Second World War.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“The final step will be a confirmation of the end of the war. When all the anti-war measures are implemented and security and justice begin to be restored, a document confirming the end of the war should be signed by the parties. It seems that since our meetings in October, Russia has levelled up with regard to its definition of its enemies in the war. Last time, as members will remember, there were war mosquitoes and birds. As we recently learned, Russia is now trying “to stop the supreme ruler of hell, whatever name he uses — Satan, Lucifer or Iblis”. In this fight, Russia’s enemies are backed by Westerners who have “saliva running down their chins from degeneracy”. Who do those quotations belong to? An inebriated person? A narrow-minded fan of Nazi ideas about superior nations and degenerate nations?”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“The eighth step is that we need to immediately protect the environment. Millions of hectares of forest have been burned by shelling. Almost 200,000 hectares of our land are contaminated with unexploded mines and shells. Dozens of coal mines are flooded. At the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was just held in Egypt, Ukraine therefore proposed to create a platform to assess the environmental damage of the war. The ninth step is preventing escalation. Ukraine requires effective security assurances, which should be an integral element of the post-war security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic space. Those guarantees could be formalized in the Kyiv security compact, a draft of which has been already formulated by Ukraine.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“Fifth, the principles of the Charter of the United Nations must be fully respected. Ukraine is not prepared to compromise its sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders. Sixth, Russian troops must withdraw from the territory of Ukraine and Ukraine’s control over all sections of its State border with Russia must be restored. That will result in a real and complete cessation of hostilities. Seventh, justice should immediately come next. When we liberate our lands, we are seeing one thing everywhere, which is that Russia leaves behind torture chambers and the mass graves of the people it has murdered. That was the case in Bucha and other cities in northern Ukraine after their occupation. That was also the case in the Kharkiv region, and we are seeing the same thing now in the Kherson region.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“I thank all our partners that have already helped Ukraine with the supply of air-defence and missile-defence systems. They work, but we need more to ensure full protection from Russian terrorists. We are ready to receive a mission of United Nations experts to examine Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure objects in order to assess the scale of the damage and what is needed to restore them, as well as to prevent their further destruction. The fourth critical step is the release of all prisoners and deportees. Thousands of our people, both military personnel and civilians, are in Russian captivity and being subjected to brutal torture. Russia also continues to hold at least 11, 000 children who have been forcibly deported to Russia. The only viable solution is the release of prisoners on an all-for-all basis.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“The first ship under that initiative, carrying 27,000 tons of wheat, will leave for Ethiopia. Ethiopia has continued to vote against Ukraine in the United Nations, but we have nevertheless continued to ship our grain there. Ukraine can export 45 million tons of foodstuffs this year, and any country can join and contribute to ensuring that Ukrainian grain is supplied to those in need and that a significant part of it is directed to those who are suffering the most. The third step concerns energy security. Russia’s acts of terror against Ukrainian energy infrastructure also aim to prevent us from exporting our electricity to our neighbours. While Russia is interested in an energy crisis, we should all be interested in ending terror.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“Russia must immediately withdraw all its militants from the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. Control of the station should be immediately transferred to the International Atomic Energy Agency and Ukrainian personnel. Second, there should also be a focus on food security. Thanks to the strong support of the United Nations, Türkiye and other partners, we have been able to improve food security globally. Since July, Ukraine has exported more than 10 million tons of foodstuffs by sea. In order to increase our exports by several million tons per month, we propose expanding the grain export initiative to other ports, in particular the ports of Mykolayiv and Olvia in the Mykolayiv region. Ukraine has also launched the Grain from Ukraine initiative to support the most vulnerable.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“One can hardly comment on the sincerity of those statements against the backdrop of the nine dozen missiles that fell on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure in one day. If there is no concrete action to restore peace, it means that Russia simply wants to deceive all of us again. Russia wants to buy time, build up its forces and then launch another wave of aggression, terror and global destabilization. We must not allow it to recharge. It is time to stop the war before the situation finally spirals in a menacing direction and becomes unpredictable and uncontrolled. We should remember the steps that President Zelenskyy outlined in his address to the Summit of the Group of 20, or rather the Group of 19. The first step that should be taken is ensuring radiation and nuclear safety.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“There is nothing for Russian diplomacy to boast about either, except perhaps the sprinting skills that Putin’s representative has been regularly developing by promptly fleeing the Chamber. I do appreciate the fact that he is here today. Russian diplomacy did not and could not find any credible argument in response to the General Assembly’s adoption of resolution ES- 11/5, for the “furtherance of remedy and reparation for aggression against Ukraine”. We welcome that resolution, which is a clear message of hope for justice and an important first step towards accountability. We have recently heard a number of statements from the Russians on the issue of negotiations and dialogue.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“Eight months ago, when the Russian occupying forces entered Kherson, the city’s residents were also in the streets. While the atmosphere was totally different, there were some similarities to the joyful rallies this month. The Russian occupiers were also met with Ukrainian flags, the Ukrainian national anthem and the slogan “Kherson is Ukraine”. It is a sad fact that many of those residents did not live to see the de-occupation. Fleeing from the right bank of the Dnipro River, the Russian army left behind traces of the same atrocities that it had committed in other regions. Investigators have already documented more than 400 Russian war crimes and have found the bodies of both civilians and military personnel.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“We are grateful for the support of our friends, in particular Poland, in countering these attacks and bringing peace and security back to our region. Russia commits its abominable attacks against civilians because it is the only kind of revenge it can take for its regular military and diplomatic defeats. Last week, Ukraine restored its sovereignty over 4,500 square kilometres in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. The Russian forces were kicked out of the only regional centre they had been able to occupy since the invasion began. Members may have seen touching pictures of how the local people, who spent eight months under occupation and endured much suffering at the hands of the Russians, greeted their liberators on the streets of Kherson and other de-occupied settlements.”
2022-11-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9195 (2022) · source
“We support a full and transparent investigation to establish all the facts of this tragic incident, and we are ready to cooperate with the Polish side to contribute to this investigation. At the same time, it is clear that the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, with regular missile terror as one of its core elements, remains the only root cause of violence and human suffering in Ukraine and beyond. As soon as Russia is unable to continue its war, security in the region will immediately be restored. Ukraine is now defending itself from barbaric Russian attacks that aim to deprive millions of people of access to services to meet their basic needs, thereby creating a humanitarian disaster that could create spillover effects far beyond my country.”
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“What a mockery of peace efforts it is that terrorists are still at the table on an equal footing with 14 members of the Security Council one day after the gravest attack on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. While temperatures in Ukraine start to drop below freezing, these terrorists aim to deprive Ukrainians of electricity, water and heating. More than 90 missiles targeted energy facilities and other civilian infrastructure in at least 11 regions of Ukraine. As a result, approximately 10 million Ukrainians throughout the country have been affected by emergency blackouts. Ukraine expresses its solidarity with the brotherly Polish people following yesterday’s tragedy in the village of Przewodów, where two people were killed by missiles.”
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“I thank Under- Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing. I am sure that it is difficult, if not painful, to deliver such a tragic account of the situation on the ground. I am also profoundly thankful to our friend and colleague, the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, Mrs. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, for sharing her personal experience on meeting some of the victims of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. We believe that every member of the Council ought to visit Ukraine. Each one is welcome — each one except Russia, which must immediately leave Ukraine, stop the carnage and cease making a cannon-fodder production line of its own people. I also recognize in this Chamber the representative of the terrorist Russian regime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union.”
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“The declaration of the leaders’ summit on global food security, on 20 September, explicitly named Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine among the factors that have disrupted production and supply chains and dramatically increased global food insecurity, especially for the most vulnerable. I therefore wish to reiterate that as soon as Russia is compelled to stop the war, the looming threat of hunger will be over, in particular for the most vulnerable nations.”
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