Ukraine is doing everything to ensure that after Russian aggression no one in the world will dare to attack any nation. And weaponization must be restrained. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his speech during the General Debate of the UN General Assembly in New York.
“History shows it was Russia who deserved nuclear disarmament the most, back in the 1990s. And Russia deserves it now – terrorists have no right to hold nuclear weapons,” the Head of State emphasized.
At the same time, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted, even without the use of nuclear weapons, the terrorist state weaponizes everything it has access to: food, energy, and even Ukrainian children from the occupied territories.
“While nukes remain in place, the mass destruction is gaining its momentum. The aggressor is weaponizing many other things and those things are used not only against our country but against all of yours as well,” the President said.
According to the Head of State, there are many conventions that restrict armaments, but there are no real restrictions on weaponization.
As an example of such a threat, Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Russia's weaponization of nuclear energy.
“Not only is it spreading its unreliable nuclear-power-plant-construction-technologies, but it is also turning other countries’ power plants into real dirty bombs. Look please what Russia did to our Zaporizhzhia power plant – shelled it, occupied it and now blackmails others with radiation leaks. Is there any sense to reduce nuclear weapons when Russia is weaponizing nuclear power plants? Scary question,” the Head of State noted.
The President pointed out that the goal of the current Russian war against Ukraine is to turn our land, people and resources into a weapon against the rules-based international order.
“As nukes are restrained, likewise the aggressor must be restrained and all its tools and methods of war. Each war now can become final, but it takes our unity to make sure that aggression will not break in again,” the Head of State stressed.
He believes it is not a dialog between the so-called “great powers” somewhere behind the closed doors that can guarantee the new no-wars-era, but open work of all nations for peace.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasizes that the Ukrainian Peace Formula envisages steps that will stop all forms of weaponization that Russia used against Ukraine and other countries and that may be used by other aggressors.
“While Russia is pushing the world to the final war, Ukraine is doing everything to ensure that after Russian aggression no one in the world will dare to attack any nation. Weaponization must be restrained. War crimes must be punished. Deported people must come back home. And the occupier must return to their own land. We must be united to make it. And we will do it,” the President emphasized.
