00:00Asembleye
00:20Madam President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mahatma Gandhi said,
00:27There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
00:32In the same spirit of fraternal love and open heart, I address you today on behalf of the Republic of Serbia,
00:39a founding country of the United Nations, a country of freedom and justice.
00:44It is my honor to address you as President of the Republic of Serbia,
00:48the country on whose behalf I stand proudly before you today.
00:51A country that, despite the current global challenges,
00:56consistently perseveres in defending the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law,
01:03and that, through its activities and principled policy, strongly advocates the idea that is the main topic of this year's session.
01:11Ladies and Gentlemen,
01:13When we talk about the current moment, this year again, to my immense regret,
01:17I have to state that the situation in the world seems even more difficult and dark than a year ago.
01:24The tensions are growing and challenges are becoming more numerous and complex.
01:29What worries me the most is that, despite our declaratory efforts for peace, development and prosperity of humanity,
01:36there is no end in sight to this geopolitical nightmare.
01:40I would not like to see the wise words of the former President John Fitzgerald Kennedy becoming the words of a prophet.
01:47You ask them when we ask them, in accordance to which international document you do that.
01:53Because all that is the attempt to provoke a war violation of the UN norms,
01:58and then, like a fig leaf, you get the stupidest possible answer in the world.
02:02Well, we do not accept the UN Charter and the UN Resolution because, for us, the situation has changed.
02:08Because we recognized the independence of Kosovo 15 years ago.
02:12And 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.
02:24We can do whatever we want, the way we want, and as long as we want.
02:29And now I am asking you, dear friends, dear representatives, not the ones of obedient and satellite puppet countries,
02:36but you freedom-loving nations and countries, what we, as a small country, can do.
02:41How can we fight?
02:43Because everybody in the world speaks about Ukraine, no one dares to speak about Serbia.
02:48And even if they do, they say how we will start the war in the Balkans upon the Russian order.
02:53To understand well the mechanisms of lies, the mechanisms of fraud in international relations,
02:59and to try to gather here, in the most important organization, to try to change it, to try to respect it.
03:06Because 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,
03:16no one admits any mistakes, and it is clear to everybody that there are no principles anywhere, nor anybody has them.
03:23Neither ones, nor the others.
03:25Only 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,
03:36is to eat each other.
03:39And when the bite is no longer so easy and small, it is then that they remember the principles
03:44and accuse the others for violating those same principles.
03:48A representative of my country, Vladislav Jovanovic, exceptional Serbian diplomat, very respected one.
03:54On that 24th of March 1999, when the aggression against Serbia started in the Security Council of the United Nations,
04:02on behalf of the government of the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
04:07made an urgent appeal to all countries to categorically oppose to aggression against our country.
04:13And just hear his words 25 years after.
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