The head of Polish diplomacy Radosław Sikorski said during a speech in the UN Security Council that Europeans would continue to stand side by side with Ukraine to achieve a fair and lasting peace, peace through strength. “Only this is respectful of the Kremlin,” he emphasized. In his speech he also cited the famous quote from Władysław Bartoszewski.
– We, as Europeans, will continue to stand side by side with UkraineTo achieve a fair and lasting peace, peace through strength, only this kind of peace is respected by the Kremlin – said Sikorski during the debate on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion. – We have the only right road. Russia She should immediately, completely and unconditionally withdrew all her forces from Ukrainian territory – he emphasized.
Playing on behalf of the head of EU diplomacy Kai Kallas, the minister emphasized that “no one wants and does not need peace in Ukraine more than Ukrainians, no one has much interest in European security than Europeans and no one has more power to end this conflict than Russia” .
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs drew attention to the huge expenses incurred by Russia – at least $ 200 billion – to his war, claiming that Moscow could build kindergartens and hospitals for it, “but he prefers to bomb them”.
– Finally, I would like to dedicate the maxim to this council by my predecessor, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, surviving from Auschwitz and Stalinist prisoners, Professor Bartoszewski: “If you do not know how to behave, behave decently just in case” – concluded Sikorski.
Radosław Sikorski during the UN Security Council meetingSarah Yenessel/PAP/EPA
Błędnzia recalls the words of Duda
The Russian Ambassador of Russia appearing before him Andrzej Duda.
– We call everyone in Europe who still maintain common sense, who can get the courage to get out of the Zelnski crime to do it as soon as possible, before, as Polish President Andrzej Duda, said prophetically, he will pull them all in the depths – said the Russian .
He referred to the president's statement from New York in 2023, when in the context of the dispute over the import of Ukrainian grain Duda compared Ukraine to “sinking everything”.
– Everyone who has ever participated in the rescue of the drowning knows that a drowning man is extremely dangerous. That he can pull the depths – said Duda at the time.
In addition to the citation of the Polish president, the Kremlin representative expressed satisfaction with the change of the American administration approach and expressed the hope that thanks to this West it would be harder to “provide a cover for his bankrupt client” (so called the Ukrainian president). He also said that he was counting that Zelanski would be punished for “he had stained his country with blood and sticks to power for his own benefit.”
“A strict lesson from the Budapest Memorandum”
The deputy head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Marian Beca said that Ukraine received a “severe lesson” after signing the Budapest Memorandum and donating a nuclear arsenal.
– Although we do not regret the moral validity of this decision, we pulled a very harsh lesson from the Budapest Memorandum. The contract without real and effective security guarantees is a bad contract – said the representative of Kiev. She also appealed not to tame the aggressor, because “Appeasement never works”.
US representative Dorothy Camille Shea said that the American resolution, who was previously adopted by the Security Council, calling for a quick and lasting end of the war – but talking about the conflict as “the Russian -Ukrainian war”, not aggression – is “historical and can lead to peace.”
– We have no illusions. We are aware that reaching an agreement will be difficult, but it is time for Russia and Ukraine to make difficult decisions and end the fights – she said.
Source of the main photo: Sarah Yenessel/PAP/EPA