NEWS STORY : Rishi Sunak Calls for the International Community to Support Ukraine
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Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, has called on the international community to support Ukraine against the illegal occupation of the country by Russia. Speaking at the Summit on Peace, Sunak rejected the peace terms suggested by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying:
“I recall my first visit to Kyiv where I saw the explosive devices that departing Russian soldiers had placed in children’s toys and footballs.
There can be no justification for that.
There can be no justification for escalating nuclear rhetoric.
There can be no justification for disrupting food supplies to tens of millions of vulnerable people.
Now there will be of course a diversity of views round this table, but I commend and thank everyone for their participation here today, demonstrating that you all seek a genuine peace to this conflict.
Because Putin has no interest in genuine peace.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement after the summit:
“We are responding to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine not only with a full-scale defense of human life, but also with full-scale diplomacy. These days united one hundred and one countries and international organizations, – big success for Ukraine and for all partners, – and our fair objective is to get all countries of the world to join this noble cause.
Previous political generations have left us the UN Charter as a basis for the cooperation of peoples. We will pass to the next generations an effective mechanism to implement the UN Charter. And the communiqué adopted at the Summit these days fully reflects our intention, and remains open for accession by everyone who respects the UN Charter.
It’s important that all participants of the Summit supported Ukraine’s territorial integrity because there will be no lasting peace without territorial integrity.”
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