The UN Charter is based on the respect of all states for sovereignty, territorial integrity and right to determine their future, not on the premise that someone can decide to burn the life of a neighboring nation or deport it. This was stated by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his speech at the Parliamentary Summit of the Crimea Platform.
“And now, as some state leaders gathered at Putin’s summit in Kazan, and as military personnel from North Korea can actually be moved closer to the front in Ukraine, alongside their summit, accompanied by words about allegedly “preventing tension,” we still know: it is not the criminal who will prevail, not the one who destroys and deports, but the one who unites peoples based on fundamental human values and the UN Charter,” the Head of State said.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented the Victory Plan to the participants and urged them to advocate for it in their countries and in discussions with partners. According to him, the implementation of the Plan will make it possible to force Russia to participate in the Peace Summit and to see the full restoration of the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.
“Today, on the United Nations Day, it is especially important to say this. To say it when the goal for which the UN was created is defended not by the UN Security Council and not even by UN officials, but by collaborative formats such as the Crimea Platform or the Peace Summit. And I would really like to remind the international bureaucracy and political leaders that today is the UN Day all over the world, not somewhere in Kazan,” the President emphasized.
This is already the third Parliamentary Summit of the Crimea Platform; it is held in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is attended by more than 70 delegations from all over the world online and offline. The first Parliamentary Summit of the Crimea Platform was held in Zagreb (Croatia) in 2022, and the second one was held last year in Prague (Czech Republic).