Zelensky calls on the UN Security Council to hold Russia accountable and provide guarantees to Ukraine

In his speech on Tuesday before the United Nations Security Council, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged security guarantees for Ukraine.

The Ukrainian president said, "Where is the security that the Security Council has to guarantee? It does not exist. Although there is a Security Council. So where is the peace? What are those guarantees that the United Nations needs to guarantee?"

He asked in his speech.

Speaking through an interpreter, he stressed that accountability for Russia "must be inevitable."

"I would like to remind you of Article 1, Chapter 1 of the Charter of the United Nations. What is the purpose of our organization? Its purpose is to maintain peace," he said.

"And now the Charter of the United Nations has been literally violated, starting with Article 1".

Describing the Russian actions as "war crimes", Zelensky said, "I am sure that every member state of the United Nations should be interested in investigating war crimes and in punishing war criminals. For what? For the sake of punishment and for all those who consider themselves special and think they can get away with it." from anything ".

He urged the UN Security Council "to show all other potential war criminals in the world how they would be punished if the biggest of them (Russia) was punished."

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