Are you ready for the closure of the UN? Zelenskyy at a meeting of the UN Security Council
Speaking at a remote meeting of the UN Security Council, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed that the organization could be disbanded if it fails to stop the war and war crimes committed in Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy noted that the UN Charter defined it as an organization that should maintain peace, and now the UN Charter is violated by russia from the first article, and as a result of russia's actions in Ukraine, the worst war crimes are committed since World War II.
"Where is the security that the Security Council is supposed to guarantee? It is not there.… Where is the peace for which the United Nations was created?" said Zelenskyy, citing examples of actions of the russian military in Ukraine.
He stressed that the world was already shocked by what it saw in the northern suburbs of Kyiv, but had not yet seen what happened in other cities and villages under occupation.
"We are dealing with a state that turns the veto in the UN Security Council into a right to death, which undermines the whole architecture of global security, which allows evil to be free and spread the world… If this continues, the finale will be what each state can count on only by force of arms to ensure security, not international law, international institutions. The UN can simply be closed. Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to close the UN? Do you think that the time of international law is over? If your answer is no, it is necessary to act now," Zelenskyy emphasized.
He stressed that this requires immediate reform of the UN system – so that the veto cannot be covered up, as Russia does, and so that all regions of the world are fairly represented in the Security Council.
"We need to force the aggressor to peace immediately, we need determination. The chain of mass killings, from Syria to Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Libya, should have been stopped long ago. If tyranny had ever received such a response to the war it had waged that it would have ceased to exist, and an honest peace would have been guaranteed after it, the world would have changed for sure. And then, perhaps, we would not have a war," said Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He added that the Kremlin's previous aggressive actions against Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine had not received a proper response and laid the groundwork for what is happening now.
