UN Secretary-General: We must give peace another chance

The UN secretary-general told reporters Friday night after a Security Council meeting that the United Nations was drawn from the war to end the war. This goal was not achieved today. But we must not give up and despair. We must give peace another chance.

Guttierez added that troops must return to their bases. Leaders must return to the path of dialogue and peace.

He stated that the needs in Ukraine are increasing every hour. Civilians are killed. At least 100,000 Ukrainians have been displaced, and many are seeking refuge in neighboring countries.

Appointment of UN Crisis Coordinator in Ukraine

“To strengthen our response, I announce today that I have appointed Amin Awad as UN Resident Coordinator in Ukraine,” he said.

According to Guterres, Amin Awad has worked closely with him at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for a decade.

He stressed that all parties to the conflict must respect international humanitarian law and ensure the security and freedom of movement of UN staff and other humanitarian actors.

The UN Secretary-General said the UN Charter had been challenged in the past but stood by peace, security, development, justice, international law and human rights.

“We must make every effort to ensure that these principles prevail not only in Ukraine but for all of humanity,” he said.

Before, Martin Griffiths UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator He said more than $ 1 billion was needed to help the tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the Russian invasion.

“We need money to help, and we need to use it safely,” he said. We undoubtedly pay attention to the impact of sanctions on our operations.

Griffiths also announced that UN staff would continue to operate in Ukraine and expand their operations there.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grande Has also announced that more than 50,000 Ukrainians have left the country in the last 48 hours.

“More than 50,000 Ukrainian asylum seekers have fled their country in less than 48 hours,” Grandi tweeted. Most have taken refuge in Poland and Moldova, and many are on their way out of Ukraine.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that tens of thousands will be displaced by the war.

A Russian security official “Since February 18, 113,000 residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics have sought refuge in Russia,” he told the state-run Tass news agency.


According to the Russian government official, 71,000 of these people are Ukrainian citizens, 41,000 are Russian citizens and 345 are citizens of other countries.

Members of the UN Security Council met on Friday evening in local time to decide after several days of private and public discussions on a draft resolution against Russia that Moscow had vetoed a proposed US resolution against it and the efforts of Washington and its allies. Failed.

According to IRNA, this is the third emergency meeting of the Security Council this week, which is about a resolution against Russia, which is chairing the Security Council this month (February) and has a veto-wielding member.

In a vote, 11 of the 15 permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council voted in favor, one (Russia) voted against and three abstained, including China, India and the UAE. The resolution was not passed due to the vote of Russia, which is a permanent member of the Security Council and has a veto.

Criticizing the West’s indifference to Moscow’s security concerns, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that his country recognizes the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics and signed cooperation and friendship agreements with the leaders of those republics at the Kremlin Palace.

In a speech on Russian national television on the morning of Thursday, February 24, Putin announced military action in Donbas and called on Ukrainian forces to lay down their weapons and go home.

Reacting to Putin’s move, US President Joe Biden issued a statement saying the world would hold Russia accountable. Putin has chosen a pre-planned war that will result in catastrophic casualties and human suffering.

The president also spoke after talks with members of the Group of Seven, saying that the Russian military had launched a brutal attack on the Ukrainian people, calling it unreasonable, unnecessary and pre-planned, and calling Vladimir Putin an aggressor. And announced that we would impose new sanctions on Moscow.

The United States has so far imposed sanctions on US banks and financial institutions, as well as the Russian company Stream 2. Washington has also imposed sanctions on President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of General Staff Valery Grasimov.

The US Treasury Department said in a statement that Putin and Lavrov were directly responsible for Russia’s illegal and unwarranted attack on Ukraine, an independent and democratic country.

The United States has previously imposed sanctions on 11 members of Russia’s Security Council.