– This year, 80 years have passed since the United Nations was formed, under unprecedented pressure," Kallas said at the safety Council gathering on EU-UN relations.
“We see gross violations of the United Nations Charter. We see attempts to replace the regulation of law with forces – she stressed and called for respect for global law "whether in the Gaza Strip, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burma, Haiti or Ukraine".
In this context, it reiterated the EU's "strong" support for a "fair and lasting peace" in Ukraine. "Europe has learned from its own past that yielding to the demands of aggressors leads to more violence," she said, pointing out that the war could end "if Russia, the only liable party, withdraws its troops and halt bombing Ukraine".
Russian Ambassador to the UN: I call you
Russia's Ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, said that the EU had evolved into "a confounded, aggressive and anti-Russian bloc".
– I call on you to reflect twice on the request to engage in dialog with specified an organization that gives lectures on human rights, but grossly breaks it and imposes severe sanctions on all who disagree with it," Nebenzia said.
With respect to the Gaza Strip, the head of European diplomacy called for the abolition of "any obstacles facing humanitarian aid on a large scale". "Humanitarian aid must not be politicised or conditional," she stressed.
It besides stated that the EU "has powerfully rejected any effort at demographic or territorial change in the Gaza Strip, including in another parts of the world". – Everywhere – she said.
