development gains. this involves supporting the government to sustain a stand, a central government structures and basic services, including emergency measures to sustain livelihoods, such as cash based assistance. madam president, the war in ukraine has damaged europe. security architecture. it's economic repercussions are already evans, evident far from the battlefield. the longer the war continues, the greater the risk that it will further weaken the global institutions and mechanisms dedicated to preserve peace and security. the war was started by choice . there is no inhibit ability to it or to the suffering it is causing. the united nations is ready to do everything when it's means to help bring an end to it. thank you madam president. i thank mister caller for her briefing, and i now give the floor to mister melton. griffith's thank you met him for getting

me a code from the secretary general. and mister general, the caller ukrainian civilians are paying far too high for this war. i want to speak briefly about humanitarian needs and what we're doing to meet them before and then refer to my recent travels. and the last 6 weeks, as we have had at least 1430 people are being killed among them. over a 121 children and we know this is very likely a serious underestimate. ready homes and civilian infrastructure bridges, hospitals, schools have been damaged or destroyed. and about the current figures on this page tell us that more than 11300000 people have now been foster homes and all of that for one to 1000000 and refugees in those generous name,

neighboring countries that rosemary had just been referring to. sorry. in total, more than a quarter of the population of ukraine has fled in this extraordinary a short time. unfortunately, we can imagine that these figures will continue to rise until we can find a pause and some piece by the president, the ground and air pen susan, counter offenses are making life nearly impossible for many civilians in ukraine, families, elderly women and children have been trying to fight fighting already for too long for more than 5 weeks. the people of maria paul have been caught up in the fighting . and it is well documented that really my report is a center of hell. other cities like gender, have sue me and talk to you. i mean cut off from essential goods and services and perilous conditions have during our efforts to access civilians or for them to

access us. and we restate that civilians must be allowed to move to save her areas without the fear of detects and their own choice and their own selection. it's vital that all parties to the complete respect to their obligations under sasha manager in law, to protect civilians and to allow impartial humanitarian organizations safe, rapid unimpeded access to all of it ends in need. wherever they are. in your presence, when the president of the world watches humanitarian need saw in ukraine, the united nations and our partner organizations are making every effort to dramatically increase our support to affected civilians. the work of the 6000 volunteers from the brain, red cross as we have noted before in this chamber, together with local and jose eastern ukraine. these people,

these organizations continue to work tirelessly tirelessly, the front line of assistance to communities. the world program has reached more than 1300000 people with cash and food assistance to push that number up to 2 and a half 1000000 people. in this month, health partners report it more than 180 tons of medical supplies were delivered into your grade. with another 470 tons. on the way. this will address the needs of about 6000000 people in the months ahead. and i'm please just say that seems odd word to say in the context of your crime and that much effort. and then a past day, another convoy went tremonti manager and hub denny broke to the far east today. food, winter clothing, non food items medicine. i gene kids are offloaded to ukraine,

red cross on the reach the hands of those most in need. indeed, following notification to both parties, a formal process that we and also the process for homebuyers in federal from the u. n. i provided a critical support, people in some of the cities encircled by war, went on with it and effected by ongoing. i checked several more planned. so these are initial steps. but it gives us a basis denied, expanded, taking our, it's up to scale and expanding much more than one voice a day. as the secretary general and the under secretary already said, i want to also join them extra testing my concern over the growing number of ports we receive of human trafficking, sexual violence exploitation, and abuse in the ukraine and in the region. and as such,

heretic incidence as we're seeing the overwhelmingly impact despised women and children. more than others. we have those strict protection, gender based services, through agencies to provide specialized survivors and through the, the, the wealth of civil society organizations. and you pray these services are designed, carried out directly in collaboration with them through your creative civil society, including very particularly women lead organizations that residents day i'm addressing you from geneva. having just returned from moscow over night. as you know, the secretary general, as he said, it's charles me to bring both sides together on humanitarian grounds to explore by specific and sustained ways to reduce humanitarian suffering, including an a tickler but in particular,

the procedure to the humanitarian see spot. yes, today in moscow, i had long and frank exchanges with the minister part of has so good leverage and his devotee. so gave her scene in and then separately with alexander foreman, the deputy minister of defense. in my meetings with these senior officials, i discussed also in addition to these possibilities of your chances files, i discussed the issue of humanitarian convoys safe passage, including the for which i've already referred to by the possibilities of building further on that corporation. sharing specific suggestions for mutually agreed upon military freezes to allow for evacuation civilians over the safe passage of life saving aid and effects, the humanitarian pauses in different parts of your brain to save lives and bring

back a modicum of safety. for those living in those places like in moscow, received the suggestions, assured me, of the intent to capitalists study those ideas which i left with them when we agreed to remain in close contact like came away from these meetings. believing that we have a very long road, a long road ahead of us. but it must be traveled. madam president, we will travel it. tomorrow i have to travel. i've traveled to praying to have discussions with senior authorities from the ukraine in government, and cheese on these same issues and others of they will no doubt present to me. and also to see 1st hand with our crisis coordinator. i mean our world that humanitarian response. but i'm president, thanks to generous donor contributions,

many from governments. in this chamber, the humanitarian response and separate hasn't been scaled up, allow us to meet the needs of, on a half 1000000 people. we will need sustained financial support needs and new prime . and like the 2nd general are under the stress, as he has done consistently, the funding must not be diverted from other crises. madam president got to stop. that is one of those you heard from david basically last week. climate sharks, compounded by the sorry food of your cos, indicated by the secretary general, push another 47000000 people globally into severe food insecurity. so the total number of people around the world will not know where the next meal comes

from. could be driven to the astonishing figure of 325000000 people around the world that is by a long distance, the highest and our recent history and well over double. what was what it was 3 years ago. so madame present, i chose, of course, like others by reminding the counsel of what the counsel already knows. well, the world cannot for this rule, and neither can the people like others. i call on all council members and member states for them to support all efforts from whatever part they come from in the pursuit of peace and the alleviation of montera suffering for the sake of the people of your pride. for the sake of those around the world cannot afford to additional, but this war imposes on them and all of us we must of the secretary general said silence. and i find fits for

his briefing. i now give the floor to his excellency mister velocity. mister lansky, the president of ukraine. you have the plaza? the job done? no, no, my dear madame all cheerily. on even the dear mister secretary general, distinguished members of the security council and other members of this meeting. thank you very much for this opportunity. i am sure that all the representatives of the united nation members states will hear me today. yesterday i returned from our city of butcher, recently liberated from russian troops, not far from ki, of so there is not a single crime that they would not commit. they are at the russian military search for and purposefully killed anyone who served to our country. they killed shot and

killed women outside their houses when they just try to call someone who is alive. they killed entire families, adults and children. and they try to burn the bodies. i am addressing you on behalf of a people who honor the memory of the deceased every single day in the memory of the civilians who had died who were shot and killed in the back of their head after being tortured. some of them were shot on the streets, others were throwing into their wells. so they died there in suffering. they were killed in their apartments, houses, blowing up grenades. the civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars in the middle of the road. just for their pleasure, they cut off her lamps, cut their throats, slashed their throats. women were raped and killed in front of their children. they were out, their tongues were pulled out only because the aggressor did not hear what they

wanted to hear from them. so this is no different from other terry a terrors such as diana should occupy some territory. and here it is done by a member of the united nations security council destroying internal unit take borders, countries and ad taken the right to of more than dozens of countries who are self determined and in determines they pursue a consistent policy of destroying ethnic religious diversity. then inflame wars and deliberately lead them in such a way that to kill as many regular civilians. and it is the to a lee of the country where they deploy their troops in ruins and filled with mass graves. you all see that and they support hatred at the level of the state and seek to exported to other countries through their system of propaganda and political

corruption. they provoke a global foot crisis that could lead to famine in africa, asia and other countries. and, well, sir, surely and in large scale political cares in many countries were too and destroying their domestic security. so where is the security that their security council needs to guarantee it's not there, although there is a security council as and so where is their peers who were in what were those guarantees that the united nation needs to guarantee it is obvious that they key institution of their world, which must ensure that the coercion of any aggressive to peers simply cannot work effectively. now the world can see that their russian mil, what russian military did in butcher while keeping their city under their occupation. but the world has yet to see what they have done in other occupied

cities and regions of our country. geography might be their friend of various, but cruelty is their same crimes are the same and accountability must be inevitable . ladies and gentlemen, i would like to remind you of article one, chapter, one of the you on the charter. what is the purpose of our organization? its purpose is to maintain peace and make sure that our peace is adhered to. and now there you and chart is violated literally starting where their article want. and if so, what is the point of our other articles today as a result of russia's actions in our country in ukraine, the most terrible war crimes of all times are. we see at the sins lower end of world war 2 and they are being committed russians. troops are deliberately

destroying unite ukrainians. say it is air to ashes by with artillery and air strike, they are deliberately blocking city, creating mass starvation. they deliberate is, should columns of civilians on the road trying to escape from the territory of history. ill still it is. they even deliberately blow up shelters were civilians hide from air strife. they are deliberately creating conditions in the temporarily occupy eternity, so that as many civilians as possible are killed there. the massacre in our city of butcher is only a wine, unfortunately, only a one of many examples. a while there occupiers have been doing on our land for the past 41 days. and there are many more cities similar places. well, the world will, has yet to learn their full truth, mary. all paul carter, kitchen knob lyrica, bra dank, and dozens other ukrainian communities. each of over them is similar to boucher.

i know, and you know perfectly well what the representatives of russia will say in response to the accusations of these crimes. they have said that many time they're more significant was after they are shooting down of the malaysian boys. over a don barza by russian forces with russian webb is or during the war in syria. they will blame every one just to justify their own actions. they will say that there are various very versions, different versions, and it is impossible to establish which one of those versions is through lay wells . even say that the bodies were out of those kills were allegedly thrown away and all the deals are staged. but it is 2022. now we have conclusive evidence. so there are satellite images that we can conduct full and transparent investigation. that is what we are interested in. maximum access for journalist,

maximum corporation with international institutions. involvement of the international criminal court, complete truth and full accountability. i am sure that every member state of the un should be interested in this for what in order to bash it punish once for, and for all those who consider themselves privileged and believe that they can get away with anything. so show all the other potential war criminals in the world, how they will be punished if the biggest one is spanish, then every one is you punish a why did ukraine came to come to ukraine? i will tell you, because russia lead us, as leadership, feels like colonizers in ancient times, they need our wealth, our people, russia has already deported hundreds of thousands of our citizens to their country

. they abducted more than 2000 children, just simply conducted that those children and continued to do cell. russia wants to turn the ukraine into silent slaves. their rush and military are looting openly the cities and vill is that they have captured. this is wide scale crab l looting. they are stealing everything starting with food, ending with ear rings, gold earrings that are pulled out with blue and covered with blood. we are dealing with a state that is turning the veto into the un security council into the right to die . the. this undermines the whole architecture of global security and to allow students to go at punish. so they are destroying everything that they can so destroy. if we, if this continues there, the countries will be, rely only on the power of their own arms to ensure that they are security

and not on international long, not rely on international institutions. the united nations can be on simply close. ladies and gentlemen, i are ready to close the un. do you think that the time of international law is gone? if your answer is no, then you need to act immediately. you, there, you n. charter must be restored immediately. the u. n. system must be reformed immediately. so that the veto is not the right to die. that there is a fair representation in the security council of all region of their world, their grass and mars to be brought to peace, immediately, determination is needed, the massacre from syria to. so molly somali, i'm from afghanistan, know yemen and libya that should have been stopped a long time ago to tell her the truth. if tiredly had at least once received such

a respond to the war, it had b, we had read, it would have to cease to exist, and honest bees hadn't been guaranteed after it and the world would have changed for sure. and then perhaps that would not be war in my country, not against our people against ukrainian people against our citizens. but the world watched and did not want to see either the occupation of crimea or the war against georgia or taking the entire trans wisteria from mo and how russia was preparing the basis for other conflicts and war. and here they are, boarders. how to stop it right away, the russian military, and those who gave them orders must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes in ukraine. anyone who has given criminal orders and carried out them by

killing our people will be brought before they try. but do you know which should be similar to the nuremberg tribunals? i would like to remind russian diplomats that and i meant a like a fund. reuben tribe has not escape punishment after 4 crimes in world war 2. i would also like to remind you that adults are been also did not gone. i did not go on fine. there's no body of them escape the punishment. but the main thing is today is it, it's time to transform this system as the united nations. so therefore, i, we propose to convene a global conference and we can do it here in peaceful cave in order to determine how we are going to reform the world security system. how we will have real lie, or how do we establish guarantee of recognition of borders and integrity off

states and countries, how we will serve the rule of international law? it is now clear that the goals he sat in san francisco in 1945 for the creation of global security international, or the zation has not been achieved. and it is impossible to achieve them without a forums. therefore, we must do everything in our power to pass on to the next generation. and if back day of you and where their ability to respond, preventively to security challenges and 1000 guarantee fees, prevent aggression and fours. aggressors to peace, have their determination and ability to banish if the principles of peace violated there can be no more exceptions or privileges. everybody must be equal. all participants of international relations, regardless of economic strength, geographical area, and individual ambitions. really,

the power of peace must become dominant, the power of justice and the security of power as a humanity has always dreamed of in ukraine is ready to provide a platform for one of their main offices of the uh, new updated security system as similar to the geneva office that deals with the human rights in iraq be off is that deals with environmental protection. and in case we can have you 24 office that can specialize in preventive measures to maintain peace. i would like to remind you of our peaceful mission in afghanistan when we ukrainians, evacuated from that country over a 1000 more than 1000 people from it with our and our own extends. it was a very difficult phase, and ukraine came to their help. we took in people of different nationalities,

ethnic groups, different faith, african citizens of the european of european countries. us, canada. we did not log who needed dot com. how was it one of our own or somebody else? we helped all of them. we saved every month. if every time there was a need, everyone in the world would be confident that help good would come, the world would have been definitely safer. more therefore ukraine has their moral right to propose a reform of the world security system. we have proven that we help others not only half the time, but in dark times do. and now we need decisions from the security council for peace in ukraine. if you do not know how to add it to a make this decision, you can do 2 things, either remove russia as an aggressor and a source, a war was. so it cannot blog decisions about its own that aggression its own

war. and then do everything that we can do to establish peace or the other option is please show how we can a reform or change, dissolve yourself and it work for peace. or if there is no alternative and no option. so then the next option would be this, solve yourself altogether. and i know that you can admit that if there is nothing that you can do besides conversation, we need peace. we ukraine, p needs in europe, needs peace, and the world wants peace. and finally, i would kindly ask you very much to watch this short video. i would not believe the gave us one more minute of your time, the video that we,

i want to show that $11.00 country can violate and rights. and that's the result of being unpunished if possible. please watch this video because it is impossible to get everyone to come to our country and see it with your own eyes. therefore, i would ask you to watch this video. thank you very much. ah

i'm not sure, but it you is it just coming in? i uploaded to the technician, so security council so they have it in their possession i. we will sort that one out. technically we don't have the video. so i propose that while we sort that out, i thank his excellency mr. zalinski for his compelling and powerful remarks. we will come back to the video when we've sorted out the technical for the technical issues around it. and may i say, speaking in my national capacity,

may i express appreciation to the president for his leadership in war time and for the extraordinary fortitude and bravery of the ukrainian people under this unprovoked and illegal invasion? i resume my function as the president of the security council. and while we sort out the technical video, i propose to give the floor to those council members who wish to make statements. and i now give the floor to the representative of the united states. thank you madam president. let me also start by thanking you e, an ambassador nisa bay for her successful presidency during the month of march. madam president, as you begin your security council presidency, i want to thank the united kingdom for your leadership and for organizing this

vital discussion on ukraine today. i also want to thank the secretary general for his remarks and the other briefers. and i'd like to extend a warm welcome to president zelinski. i was so moved by the address he made recently to our congress. and we are truly honored by his presence here under the circumstances that he and ukraine face today. madam president, last night i returned from a trip to moldova and romania. i saw with my own eyes the refugee crisis caused by rushes unconscionable war. i spoke to refugees who indicated to me their desires, to return to their home. and we've all seen the images on t v of the bombed out buildings.