00:00Asembleye
00:19Madam President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mahatma Gandhi said,
00:26There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
00:31In the same spirit of fraternal love and open heart, I address you today on behalf of the Republic of Serbia,
00:38a founding country of the United Nations, a country of freedom and justice.
00:43It is my honor to address you as President of the Republic of Serbia,
00:47the country on whose behalf I stand proudly before you today.
00:51A country that, despite the current global challenges, consistently perseveres in defending the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law,
01:02and that, through its activities and principled policy, strongly advocates the idea that is the main topic of this year's session.
01:10Ladies and Gentlemen,
01:12When we talk about the current moment, this year again, to my immense regret,
01:16I have to state that the situation in the world seems even more difficult and dark than a year ago.
01:22The tensions are growing and challenges are becoming more numerous and complex.
01:27What worries me the most is that, despite our declaratory efforts for peace, development and prosperity of humanity,
01:34there is no end in sight to this geopolitical nightmare.
01:38I would not like to see the wise words of the former President John Fitzgerald Kennedy becoming the words of a prophet.
01:45And when you ask them, when we ask them, in accordance to which international document you do that?
01:51Because all that is the attempt to provoke a war, a violation of the UN norms, and then, like a fig leaf, you get the stupidest possible answer in the world.
02:01Well, we do not accept the UN Charter and the UN Resolution because, for us, the situation has changed,
02:07because we recognized the independence of Kosovo 15 years ago.
02:11And what is their message to us, my dear friends?
02:14Their message is, we are the power, we are God, we don't care about the United Nations, the law of the United Nations and the UN Resolution.
02:23We can do whatever we want, the way we want, and as long as we want.
02:28And now I am asking you, dear friends, dear representatives, not the ones of obedient and satellite puppet countries,
02:35but you freedom-loving nations and countries, what we as a small country can do.
02:40How can we fight?
02:42Because everybody in the world speaks about Ukraine, no one dares to speak about Serbia.
02:46And even if they do, they say how we will start the war in the Balkans upon the Russian order.
02:52To understand well the mechanisms of lies, the mechanisms of fraud in international relations,
02:58and to try to gather here in the most important organization, to try to change it, to try to respect it,
03:05because it is the only way to preserve peace.
03:09This way, the world is on the verge of disaster, and everyone is allegedly defending principles,
03:15no one admits any mistakes, and it is clear to everybody that there are no principles anywhere, nor anybody has them.
03:22Neither ones, nor the others.
03:24Only the small ones that have nowhere else to go, and the principles are the only thing they can grasp.
03:31And the only thing that is left to the big ones, ones that have crushed all the small ones, is to eat each other.
03:38And when the bite is no longer so easy and small, it is then that they remember the principles
03:43and accuse the others for violating those same principles.
03:47A representative of my country, Vladislav Jovanovich, exceptional Serbian diplomat, very respected one,
03:53on that 24th of March 1999, when the aggression against Serbia started in the Security Council of the United Nations,
04:01on behalf of the government of the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
04:06he made an urgent appeal to all countries to categorically oppose to aggression against our country.
04:12And just hear his words 25 years after.
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