Annalena Baerbock made an emotional appeal to the international community during her appearance at the United Nations. She warned against turning a blind eye to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has made an emotional appeal to the countries of the world to strongly condemn Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.
“Today we all have to choose between peace and aggression, between justice and the will of the strongest, between acting and looking the other way,” said the Green politician on Tuesday evening, according to the text of the speech that had been distributed in advance, at the emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. She accused Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of abusing Russia’s power as a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
“They will not deceive their own people”
Before the largest UN body, Baerbock spoke of Moscow’s “brazen lies”: “You say you are acting in self-defense. But the whole world has watched as you spent months building up your troops to prepare for this attack.” And while Russia insists that it wants to protect the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine, the entire world sees Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin’s troops bombing homes of Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Addressing Lavrov, Baerbock said: «You can fool yourself. But you will not fool us. And they will not deceive their own people.”
The Foreign Minister appealed to the representatives of the 192 other UN member states in the General Assembly to support an upcoming vote on a resolution directed against Russia on Wednesday. “When we go home after our vote, each of us will have to sit across the kitchen table from our children, our partners, our friends, our families. Then each of us has to look them in the eye and tell them what choice we made.” It is about nothing less than the life and death of the Ukrainian population, the security of Europe and the United Nations Charter.
Western states hope that as many of the 193 member countries as possible will condemn Russia’s war of aggression at the emergency session of the General Assembly, thereby making visible the global isolation of the Russian leadership. This is only the eleventh emergency meeting in more than 70 years. The minimum goal is to beat the votes for a 2014 resolution invalidating a Russian referendum in Crimea. At that time, 100 member states voted for the text.
Source: Stern
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