Lavrov’s UNGA Speech & Presser - by Karl Sanchez
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Discours de Lavrov aux Nations unies (extrait).
There is no justification for the acts of terrorism to which Israelis were victims on October 7, 2023, but all those who still have a sense of compassion are outraged by the fact that the October tragedy is being used to inflict mass collective punishment on the Palestinians, which has turned into an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. The killing of Palestinian civilians by American weapons must end immediately. Humanitarian supplies must be delivered to the enclave, infrastructure must be restored, and, most importantly, the Palestinians’ legitimate right to self-determination must be guaranteed and allowed to create a territorially contiguous and viable state within the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, not in word but in deed.
Another “screaming” example of terrorist methods as a means of achieving political goals is the inhumane attack on Lebanon by turning civilian technologies into deadly weapons. This crime must be investigated immediately. But even now it is impossible to pass over in silence the numerous publications in the media, including in Europe and the United States, testifying to one or another involvement and, at least, Washington’s awareness of the preparation of a terrorist attack. We understand that the Americans always deny everything and will do everything to cover up the facts that have emerged, just as they did in response to irrefutable evidence of their involvement in the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. These gas pipelines, by the way, were a perfect symbol of the “global cooperation” that the UN Secretary-General dreams of. As a result of their destruction, the competitiveness of the European Union in the world economy has been undermined for many years to the benefit of the United States. On the conscience of the West is also the “winding” of the truth about the organisers of many other heinous crimes, including the bloody provocation in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha in April 2022 and a series of poisonings of Russian citizens in Britain and Germany.
The UN Secretariat cannot remain aloof from efforts to establish the truth in situations that directly affect global security and must impeccably comply with Article 100 of the Charter, act impartially and avoid the temptation to play into the hands of individual states, especially those that openly call not for cooperation, but for dividing the world into a “blooming garden” and a “jungle” or “dining at the democratic table” and “finding themselves on the menu.”
We must not forget about the “track record” of those who demand compliance with their “rules” from the rest of the world. The invasion of Afghanistan and the inglorious twenty-year stay of the well-known coalition there was accompanied by the formation of Al-Qaeda. A direct result of the aggression against Iraq was the creation of ISIS. The outbreak of the war in Syria gave rise to Jabhat al-Nusra (now Hayat Tahrir al-Sham), and the destruction of Libya opened the floodgates for the penetration of terrorism into the Sahara-Sahel region and for millions of illegal migrants to Europe. We call on everyone who thinks about the future of their countries and peoples to be extremely vigilant about the new adventures of the inventors of those very “rules”.
The methods of political assassinations, which have become almost commonplace, are extremely alarming, as happened again yesterday in Beirut.
The tragic and unacceptable developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict, in Yemen, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, Sudan and other “hot spots” in Africa reflect an indisputable fact: security can either be equal and indivisible for all, or it will not be for anyone.