We live in a world of quick headlines and even quicker slogans — “take back control”, “my country first” and “us against them”. Those slogans paint the world in black and white and seek to make us believe that things are very simple, that there is only one side that matters — “us against them”. I co…
Nine hundred and forty-three days ago, Russia launched its full-scale aggression against Ukraine. It has been 943 days of suffering, 943 days of women being raped in Bucha, of tortured people in eastern Ukraine and of children being deported. And as we heard here today, there is no denying that. Chi…
As the representative of Russia asked why we Europeans are here today, I will tell him. Throughout my entire life, I have been
lucky to live in peace in Europe, like millions of my generation. The reason we are here today is because Russia broke that peace in Europe. Russia broke our European peace…
“I am afraid the world will forget about us, because everyone is so focused on Russia’s war and the violence in the Middle East.”
That is what a woman my age in Gorom, South Sudan, told me. That woman had fled the violence in the Sudan with only a small bag of belongings, carrying her child
on her…
Far too many people have been killed in the course of just two days. Thousands have been forced to flee their homes. Azerbaijan has chosen to create facts on the ground by military force. We firmly condemn Baku’s military assault and call on it to permanently and completely cease its military action…
“Mum, come and get me.” Those were the words that Natálja Schornyk had been desperately waiting for. Weeks earlier, Russian troops had arrived at a school in Kupyansk, near Kharkiv, in Ukraine — the school that Natálja’s 15-year-old son, Artém, went to every day, like a normal schoolboy. They took A…
In Bucha, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Bahkmut, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is causing nothing but destruction, suffering and death. Yesterday, the General Assembly sent a powerful message about this ruthless war (see A/ES- 11/PV.19). An overwhelming majority of 141 States stood united for peac…
Bucha. Mariupol. Izyum. When we talk about the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, we are not talking about abstract reports. We are talking about children, mothers, brothers, fathers, grandparents, women and men whose pain is raw.
I therefore impress upon Russia that this is a war it will not win, so en…
