Volodymyr Zelenskiy
“Bolstering Ukraine's air defence and expediting the delivery of F-16s to Ukraine are vital tasks. There are no rational explanations for why Patriots, which are plentiful around the world, are still not covering the skies of Kharkiv and other cities.”
14 hours ago
Ana Piquer
“Reducing gang violence by replacing it with state violence cannot be a success. The Salvadoran government had adopted disproportionate measures, denying, minimising and concealing human rights violations. Bukele had created a false illusion that he had found the magic formula to solve the very complex problems of violence and criminality in a seemingly simple way. The international community must respond in a robust, articulate and forceful manner, condemning any model of public security that is based on human rights violations.”
18 hours ago
Xi Jinping
“China is building a first-class business environment that is market oriented. In traditional areas like trade and new ones such as climate change and artificial intelligence, China and the United States should become boosters for each other's development, not obstructions on each other.”
18 hours ago
Benjamin Netanyahu
“I thought the US decision in the Security Council was a very, very bad move. The worst part about it was that it encouraged Hamas to take a hard line and to believe that international pressure will prevent Israel from freeing the hostages and destroying Hamas. It [the cancellation of a planned visit to Washington by Israeli top aides] was a message first and foremost to Hamas: 'Don't bet on this pressure, it's not going to work'. I hope they got the message.”
18 hours ago
Volodymyr Zelenskiy
“Bolstering Ukraine's air defence and expediting the delivery of F-16s to Ukraine are vital tasks. There are no rational explanations for why Patriots, which are plentiful around the world, are still not covering the skies of Kharkiv and other cities.”
14 hours ago
Ana Piquer
“Reducing gang violence by replacing it with state violence cannot be a success. The Salvadoran government had adopted disproportionate measures, denying, minimising and concealing human rights violations. Bukele had created a false illusion that he had found the magic formula to solve the very complex problems of violence and criminality in a seemingly simple way. The international community must respond in a robust, articulate and forceful manner, condemning any model of public security that is based on human rights violations.”
18 hours ago
Xi Jinping
“China is building a first-class business environment that is market oriented. In traditional areas like trade and new ones such as climate change and artificial intelligence, China and the United States should become boosters for each other's development, not obstructions on each other.”
18 hours ago
Benjamin Netanyahu
“I thought the US decision in the Security Council was a very, very bad move. The worst part about it was that it encouraged Hamas to take a hard line and to believe that international pressure will prevent Israel from freeing the hostages and destroying Hamas. It [the cancellation of a planned visit to Washington by Israeli top aides] was a message first and foremost to Hamas: 'Don't bet on this pressure, it's not going to work'. I hope they got the message.”
18 hours ago
“With a virus that is truly borderless, travel restrictions that isolate any one country or region are not only deeply unfair and punitive - they are ineffective.”
“My appeal is for - especially the big powers - to come together for the unity of the Security Council in order to make sure that there is effective deterrence in relation to this epidemic of coup d'éetats. We have seen that effective deterrence today is not in place.”
“This report is another thundering wake-up call. How many do we need? The emissions gap is the result of a leadership gap. The era of half measures and hollow promises must end. The time for closing the leadership gap must begin in Glasgow.”
“I condemn the ongoing military coup in Sudan. Prime Minister Hamdok [Abdalla Hamdok] & all other officials must be released immediately. There must be full respect for the constitutional charter to protect the hard-won political transition. The UN will continue to stand with the people of Sudan.”
“If we do not act and help Afghans weather this storm, and do it soon, not only they but all the world will pay a heavy price. Without food, without jobs, without their rights protected, we will see more and more Afghans fleeing their homes in search of a better life. The flow of illicit drugs, criminal and terrorist networks will also likely increase.”
“This makes last Thursday's announcement by the Government of Ethiopia to expel seven senior UN officials - most of them humanitarian staff - particularly disturbing. This unprecedented expulsion should be a matter of deep concern for us all as it relates to the core of relations between the UN and Member States.”
“Unfortunately, today we only have confrontation. We need to re-establish a functional relationship between the two powers. [The relations is] essential to address the problems of vaccination, the problems of climate change and many other global challenges that cannot be solved without constructive relations within the international community and mainly among the superpowers. We need to avoid at all cost a cold war that would be different from the past one, and probably more dangerous and more difficult to manage.”
“It is impossible to provide humanitarian assistance inside Afghanistan without engaging with the de facto authorities. The financial system at the moment is extremely limited, which means that a number of basic economic functions cannot be delivered. After decades of war, suffering and insecurity, Afghans are facing perhaps their most perilous hour. The people of Afghanistan need a lifeline. Let us be clear: This conference is not simply about what we will give to the people of Afghanistan. It is about what we owe.”
“It is particularly horrifying and heartbreaking to see reports of the hard-won rights of Afghan girls and women being ripped away from them. This is the moment to halt the offensive. This is the moment to start serious negotiation. This is the moment to avoid a prolonged civil war or the isolation of Afghanistan.”
“The message from the international community to those on the warpath must be clear: seizing power through military force is a losing proposition. That can only lead to prolonged civil war or to the complete isolation of Afghanistan.”
“This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet. Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy.”
“Vaccines offer a ray of hope - but most of the world is still in the shadows. The virus is outpacing vaccine distribution. This pandemic is clearly far from over; more than half its victims died this year. Many millions more are at risk if the virus is allowed to spread like wildfire. The more it spreads, the more variants we see - variants that are more transmissible, more deadly and more likely to undermine the effectiveness of current vaccines.”
“The past ten days have witnessed a dangerous and horrific surge in deadly violence in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly Gaza, and in Israel. I am deeply shocked by the continued air and artillery bombardment by the Israeli defence forces in Gaza. If there is a hell on earth, it is the lives of children in Gaza. Access for humanitarian goods is paramount. Attacks by militant groups on areas surrounding crossing points are unacceptable. Even wars have rules. Civilians must be protected. Indiscriminate attacks, and attacks against civilians and civilian property, are violations of the laws of war. There is no justification, including counterterrorism or self-defence, for the abdication by the parties to the conflict of their obligations under international humanitarian law.”
“We will do everything we can to mobilise all the key actors and international community to put enough pressure on Myanmar to make sure that this coup fails. It is absolutely unacceptable after elections – elections that I believe took place normally – and after a large period of transition.”
“Let’s not fool ourselves. A vaccine cannot undo damage that will stretch across years, even decades to come. Extreme poverty is rising, the threat of famine looms. We face the biggest global recession in eight decades.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic is a major global challenge for the entire international community, for multilateralism and for me, as secretary-general of the United Nations. Unfortunately it is a test that, so far, the international community is failing.”
“The world needs a global ceasefire to stop all “hot” conflicts. At the same time, we must do everything to avoid a new cold war. We are moving in a very dangerous direction. Our world cannot afford a future where the two largest economies split the globe in a Great Fracture — each with its own trade and financial rules and Internet and artificial intelligence capacities. A technological and economic divide risks inevitably turning into a geostrategic and military divide. We must avoid this at all costs.”