The President of the Republic this Wednesday defended at the United Nations a “road map for a just peace” for Ukraine, “which ensures an immediate and lasting ceasefire with the withdrawal of the troops of the Russian Federation” from Ukrainian territory.
“Let’s live according to History. This is our people, this humanity demands this,” Marcelo Rebelo de Souza addressed during an open debate of the UN Security Council on the issue of the war in Ukraine at UN headquarters. UN in New York.
According to the head of state, the “road map for a just world” should protect “Ukraine’s legitimate desire for full integration into the organizations that it sovereignly wishes to join.”
For Portugal, a “just and sustainable peace” means “the release of prisoners and deportees, especially for the benefit of children, as well as confidence in international justice through thorough investigations of war crimes, crimes against humanity and their authors.”
The President of the Republic also emphasized the importance of “ensuring nuclear safety and its facilities under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency.”
“These steps and the political courage they require may, in time, make it possible to sign a peace and security treaty between the Russian Federation and Ukraine,” he said.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa spoke in Portuguese at an open debate at the UN Security Council, in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the first to intervene, and confirmed Ukraine’s support for Portugal.
“We will always stand in solidarity with Ukraine’s self-defense and its formula for peace, with its struggle to restore sovereignty and support its contribution to global food security,” he said.
Opening his short speech, which lasted about three minutes, the Portuguese head of state asked: “How do you measure human suffering? How do you measure the pain of an orphaned child? Parents who have lost their children? mutilated and victims of torture? How do you withstand all this, survive and continue to fight for your family, your home, your country?
Recalling his visit to Ukraine in August at the invitation of President Zelensky, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that “it is impossible to remain indifferent to the indescribable destruction in Bucha or Moszcun, tragic examples of inhumanity and suffering.”
“But it is also impossible not to admire the inspiring vitality and moral strength of resistance of the Ukrainian people, who are defending themselves with dignity from an illegal, unjust and immoral invasion,” he added.
The UN Security Council consists of five permanent veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council: the United States of America, the Russian Federation, France, the United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa welcomed the “initiative of the President of Albania to convene this important debate in an open meeting” on the war in Ukraine and stressed that “the position of Portugal is clear” regarding the conflict.
“We are and will always be on the side of international law, the UN Charter, as well as any resolution of the General Assembly that condemns aggression against Ukraine and which demands the withdrawal of troops from the Russian Federation,” he said. stated.
Based on this position, he described the conditions that he considered fundamental to “a road map for a just peace that restores and gives authority to international law” and that “ensures an immediate and lasting ceasefire with the withdrawal of Russian Federation troops from Russian territory.” Ukraine”.
“We stand in solidarity and will always stand in solidarity with the victims, the refugees whom we have always welcomed, through the efforts of the Secretary General [da ONU] in creating humanitarian corridors and the return of thousands of children taken from families illegally deported,” he emphasized.
Marcelo Rebelo de Souza arrived in the United States on Sunday evening, where he will stay until Friday.
On Tuesday, he spoke at the general debate of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly and said that the struggle of the Ukrainian people against the invasion of the Russian Federation is inseparable from the demand for compliance with the UN Charter.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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