thank you mr president mr secretary general my fellow leaders in the last year our world has experienced great upheaval growing crisis in food insecurity record heat floods and droughts cover 19 inflation and a brutal needless war a war chosen by one man to be very blunt let us speak plainly a permanent member of the united nations security council invaded its neighbor attempted to erase the sovereign state from the map russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the united nations charter no more important than the clear prohibition against countries taking the territory of their neighbor
by force again just today president putin has made overt nuclear threats against europe and a reckless disregard for the responsibilities of the non-proliferation regime now russia's calling calling up more soldiers to join the fight and the kremlin is organizing a sham referenda to try to annex parts of ukraine an extremely significant violation of the u.n charter this world should see these outrageous acts for what they are putin claims he had to act because russia was threatened but no one threatened russia and no one other than russia sought conflict in fact we warned it was coming
and with many of you we work to try to avert it putin's own words make his true purpose unmistakable just before he invaded putin asserted and i quote ukraine was created by russia and never had quote real statehood and now we see tax on schools railway stations hospitals want on centers of ukrainian history and culture in the past even more horrifying evidence of russia's atrocity and war crimes mass graves uncovered an ism bodies showing signs of torture this war is about extinguishing ukraine's right to exist as a state plain and simple and ukraine's right to
exist as a people whoever you are wherever you live whatever you believe that should not that should make your blood run cold that's why 141 nations in the general assembly came together and not to unequivocally condemn russia's war against ukraine the united states has marshalled massive levels of security assistance and humanitarian aid and direct economic support for ukraine more than 25 billion dollars to date our allies and partners around the world have stepped up as well and today more than 40 countries represented in here have contributed billions of their own money and equipment to help
ukraine defend itself the united states is also working closely with our allies and partners to impose costs on russia to deter tax against nato territory to hold russia accountable for the atrocities and war crimes because if nations can pursue their imperial ambitions without consequences then we put at risk every victory one in the battlefield belongs to the courageous ukrainian soldiers but this past year the world was tested as well and we did not hesitate we chose liberty we chose sovereignty we cho we chose principles to which every party to the united nations charter is beholding
we stood with ukraine like you the united states wants this war to end on just terms on terms we're all signed up for that you cannot seize a nation's territory by force that the only country standing in the way of that is russia somebody who's determined to uphold the principles and beliefs we pledge to defend as members of the united nations must be clear firm and unwavering in our resolve ukraine has the same rights that belong to every sovereign nation we will stand in solidarity with ukraine we will stand in solidarity against russia's aggression period
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