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President Lasso Mendoza

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2023-09-20
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2023-09-20
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  1. “Moreover, this war continues to have global consequences. It has exacerbated the nuclear threat, aggravated global food insecurity and especially affected the economies of developing countries. For all these reasons, I call on Council members to individually and collectively redouble our support to advance the efforts and good offices of the Secretary-General at the humanitarian and political levels, so that progress can be made without further delay towards a just peace based on territorial integrity and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.”

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

  2. “Ecuador rejects any invasion, regardless of the country that commits it, and all the more so if that country occupies a permanent seat in this Chamber. As Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali put it, only one power is left that can impose order on chaos, and that is the power of principles that transcend the changing perceptions of expediency. Among the hundreds of thousands of people who fled the war there were nearly 1,000 Ecuadorians, many of whom we had to evacuate as part of emergency operations with a support team in Ukraine and its neighbours. They were among the first to feel the impact of the severe humanitarian consequences of the invasion, which continue to deteriorate a year and a half later as millions are forced from their homes, with women, girls and boys being the worst affected.”

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

  3. “We have been told that Russia is acting in self-defence against anti-Russian policies towards certain inhabitants or aimed at Russian culture. However, what greater act of xenophobia or contempt for the other can there be than war against that other? Nor is it true that the so-called global South had taken a different stance. One need only look at the voting pattern in the General Assembly during its adoption of resolutions on the territorial integrity of Ukraine by an overwhelming majority. Needless to say, no veto can contain the Assembly’s strength when the time comes to defend the territorial integrity of its members. Moreover, that majority is not a majority merely of alignment, as certain parties claim.”

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

  4. “Nevertheless, aside from the difficulties that the Council is facing in achieving a concrete response, I must highlight the enormous contribution that the United Nations has made for the benefit of thousands of people and humanitarian partners on the ground, providing emergency assistance, particularly to women and children. I acknowledge the Secretary-General’s humanitarian efforts, including through what was the Black Sea Grain Initiative, and we call for it to be resumed. There are corrosive narratives that seek to justify this war, but no justification has any legal standing. We have been told, for example, that the invasion against Ukraine is in response to an alleged plot by Western countries to weaken Russia.”

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

  5. “On the contrary, in order to defend the territorial integrity of States, we must respect and implement the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and maintain peace and security, not attack other countries and abstain in voting on disputes in which we are involved. There are those who attribute the peace and security crisis to the Charter’s alleged inadequacies. However, no reform or new institutional framework will be sufficient to maintain peace and security if States are not determined to respect and implement those higher principles. What poison could be more lethal to multilateralism than the military invasion and occupation of a neighbouring country? This war, which has affected the entire dynamics of the Council’s work, continues to put our confidence in the United Nations system to the test.”

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

  6. “Ecuador has said it before and we say it again today: There is not one Charter for the South and another one for the North, or one for the West and another one for the East. The content of the Charter is the same in all languages. It is one and indivisible. There is not one version in Russian and another one in Spanish. In no case is the use of force authorized against the territorial integrity or political independence of a State, or in any way that runs counter to the purposes of the United Nations. How can we uphold the principles of the Charter for the sake of effective multilateralism, while at the same time invading a neighbouring country, or not condemn such an invasion and show indifference or complicity?”

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

  7. “In addition to destroying Ukraine and costing the lives of thousands of people, the protracted war, which was initially denied as such and was subsequently claimed to be merely a special military operation, is undermining the very purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, in particular the principle of territorial integrity. When the Organization was founded, “[w]e the peoples of the United Nations” resolved “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war ... and for these ends, to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours”. That is the foundation on which the Charter rests — and there is only one Charter.”

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

  8. “Let me first commend Albania for its presidency of the Security Council for September. I also thank you, Sir, for convening this critical debate, as it has been almost 19 months since the beginning of the military aggression against Ukraine. I also underscore the briefing by Secretary-General António Guterres, and I support his continued call on the Russian Federation to give peace a chance. This war cannot be allowed to continue another day. The Russian Federation must immediately cease its military operations in accordance with the 16 December 2022 order of the International Court of Justice, the highest court of this Organization.”

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