"UN CHARTER"

Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern told world leaders, “Russia’s war is illegal. It is immoral. It is a direct attack on the UN Charter and the international rules-based system and everything that this community should stand for.” UNIFEED

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, told the Security Council that talk of a nuclear conflict in Ukraine is "totally unacceptable" and the so-called referenda in areas under Russian control would be an “annexation” that violates the UN Charter and international law. UNIFEED

United States President Joseph Biden told the General Assembly’s General Debate that “Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the United Nations Charter, none more important than the clear prohibition against countries taking the territory of their neighbour by force.” UNIFEED

Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz told the General Assembly, “We have an obligation to our peoples. We owe them a global order that allows them to live in peace, which protects their rights and opens up opportunities for education, health and development for them. Such an order doesn’t come about by itself. Defending, further developing and strengthening it – that is our task as the United Nations.” UNIFEED

US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that this year’s high-level week of the General Assembly is a moment to “defend the United Nations and to demonstrate to the world that it can still take the world's most pressing global challenges on.” UNIFEED

UN senior official for Europe, Central Asia and Americas, Miroslav Jenča, told the Security Council, “the international community must remain fully committed to a peaceful settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan and spare no effort to deescalate the current tensions, bring the parties back to the negotiating table and help them achieve peace and stability in the region.” UNIFEED

Incoming President urges Member States to forge solutions through solidarity, sustainability, science, as General Assembly begins seventy-seventh session.

Csaba Körösi, President of the 77th session of the General Assembly, addresses the media, following the Changing of Flags ceremony.

Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, told the Security Council today, “We are defending ourselves, Europe, the world, and the UN Charter. And we will keep fighting until the last inch of the sovereign territory of Ukraine, including Crimea, is liberated.” UNIFEED

While millions of Ukrainian civilians suffer, Russian Federation’s delegate tells Security Council ‘destructive process in Ukraine far from over’.