Sánchez affirms that the war in Ukraine should not make us lose hope

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, used his speech before the

to refer firstly, as other leaders have done, to the war in Ukraine, with the message that despite the dangers it brings, it should not make you lose hope.

He said that the war in Ukraine has made "the foundations of this institution (referring to the UN) shake with force like few times," and lamented that six months later "the horror" of the Russian invasion of large swaths of Ukraine is still present and has taken humanity to "

".

The food crisis caused by the war, together with the climate crisis resulting from global warming of the planet, have put in check - he recalled - a world that was barely coming out of the

, a pandemic that exacerbated global inequalities.

Faced with this situation, the Spanish president acknowledged that "the weariness is understandable, especially among young people born with this new millennium", but made it clear that despite everything there is

, capable of overcoming any adversity, as it should confidence in an institution like the UN "to face challenges that do not understand borders".

He presented these challenges on five fronts -health, the food crisis, the ecological transition, the digital transition and gender equality-, and before all of them he presented an example of how Spain is responding to them to provide solutions that he presented as a the vanguard.

POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE SAHARA

In his speech, Pedro Sánchez also referred to Western Sahara, and defended the adoption of "a mutually acceptable political solution within the framework of the

Nations and the resolutions of the Security Council".

In this almost obligatory mention of the Sahara issue in the Spanish annual speech, there was not the slightest mention

, when the Sánchez government said for the first time that the Moroccan plan for autonomy was " the most serious, credible and realistic basis" for the resolution of this dispute.

In his speech last night, Sánchez affirmed that "we cannot drag conflicts from the past", a thesis repeated by Spanish diplomacy to support the new turn, which means putting aside the idea of ​​the self-determination referendum demanded by the

.

The President of the Government clarified that Spain continues to support "the fundamental work of the UN Secretary's Personal Envoy", Staffan de Mistura, who will soon complete a year in office without having managed to move an iota in a conflict totally stalled by maximalist positions of Morocco and the Polisario.

Sánchez did not forget, as usual, to remember that his government "will continue to support the Saharawi population in the camps, as it has always done, being the main international donor of humanitarian aid" for the refugee population in the

, in southern Algeria.

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