Malaysia urges UN sanctions on Israel, UN must reform to stay relevant, says Tok Mat

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Malaysia has strongly urged the United Nations (UN) to impose sanctions on Israel, stressing that the metastasis of Zionist regime brutality in the Middle East must be stopped.  Delivering Malaysia’s National Statement at the UN General Assembly on Saturday (Sept 27), Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan condemned Israel’s recent strike on Doha as a violation of Qatar’s sovereignty and an insult to mediation efforts.  Mohamad also pressed for urgent UN reforms to keep the organisation relevant in addressing global challenges and urged accountability from the UN Security Council’s permanent members under Resolution 76/272, citing repeated failures to uphold the General Assembly’s will.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4t687jfx  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Madam President, it is now the 80th session of the General Assembly.

00:06Yes, 80 years since our dreams of bright future gave birth to the United Nations.

00:14Humanity has imagined the future in many ways.

00:17Among other things, we imagined that in some of its darkest versions,

00:22information overload would dump critical thoughts while apathy take over.

00:28I fear that this has come to pass.

00:3380 years after the end of the Second World War,

00:37we are watching in high definition as genocide unfolds around the world.

00:4380 years after the fall of the empires, colonialism is still alive,

00:51armed, funded, and justified by some of the supposedly most liberal powers in the world.

00:59They have defended and supported the only party who has any real power in a conflict

01:05as it makes a fast out of international law.

01:11As we approach the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, Madam President,

01:15I suppose I should say, congratulations.

01:20But today, that word rings hollow.

01:24Should we congratulate ourselves on our inability to bring an end to the occupation of Palestine?

01:31Or should we congratulate ourselves for allowing a rogue state to undermine our charter and our efforts?

01:42In Gaza, the clock is ticking, the bombs are falling, and the light is fading.

01:48We have filled at least 70,000 people.

01:53Israel can no longer hide behind its pretense of victimhood.

01:58From London to Dhaka, from Paris to Sydney, from Montreal to Kuala Lumpur,

02:04populations have spoken out in grief and outrage.

02:10More and more people are standing up for the truth that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

02:17Remember, the eyes of the world are upon us.

02:23We must take action now, Madam President, now.

02:26Sanction Israel.

02:29The metastasis of Israel's brutality in Middle East cannot go on.

02:34The latest assault on Doha was not merely an attack on a few representative of Hamas.

02:42It was an attack conducted on another state's soil,

02:45and an insult to the efforts of all who have attempted to mediate.

02:50And it is a signal that Israel's violence will continue to destabilize the region.

02:57The effect of this will spill over to the rest of the world.

03:00The atrocities may have begun with Palestine,

03:05but they certainly will not end with Palestine.

03:09As the Middle East grows ever more dangerous for its residents,

03:13we will feel the reverberations all over the world.

03:18And this is why simply advocating for a two-state solution is not enough, Madam President.

03:25Malaysia will agree to any measures of the support for the Palestinian people,

03:30including the New York Declaration.

03:33But let us be clear.

03:36Let us be clear there are only three real answers to this conflict.

03:40Number one, to take concrete action against the occupying force.

03:45Two, to lend our long-term support to the development of a self-governing Palestinian state.

03:51And number three, to reform the United Nations and ensure that such a travesty of justice never happen again.

04:02Madam President, repeated failures of the Security Council to fulfill the will of General Assembly

04:09must be made with strong resistance.

04:12We must continue to demand accountability from the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council

04:19through Resolution 76, Obl. 272, or probably known as the VETO Initiative.

04:25And we must pursue results through Resolution 377A, that is uniting for peace.

04:33No more shall we quietly accept the dismissal of our collective voice.

04:40We must question and challenge the veto.

04:43We must free the Security Council from this humiliating paralysis.

04:50And we must keep the United Nations a relevant and effective international organization

04:55and global guardian of peace.

04:58The UN has served the world for 80 years.

05:01But the world we live is in shifting beyond any recognition from what it was back then.

05:07The test that we now face is an exceptional one.

05:11For the question of Palestinians has haunted the UN for nearly its entire life.

05:17Eighty years of the United Nations and 77 years of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

05:24I cannot emphasize this enough, Madam President.

05:27If we cannot resolve this, the citizens of the world will lose faith in us and the international order.

05:34Because there is no longer any way to deny that this is modern-day colonization.

05:42Only the formerly colonized have been able to see it for what it is since the start.

05:50And it is a genocide.

05:51And it is a genocide dressed in the cape of Western tolerance.

05:57For us to remain relevant, we cannot move forward on the habits of the past.

06:02We must summon the same courage that built this organization from the ruins of war.

06:09To conclude, Madam President, Malaysia believes that three urgent reforms are key to our survival.

06:15First, we must limit, if not abolish, the veto.

06:20We must challenge it each and every time that is wielded, particularly in cases of crimes against humanity.

06:27Second, authority must fly back to the General Assembly.

06:33And as the most inclusive body of this house, it should be allowed to serve as the conscience and voice of the world, unimpeded.

06:43And third, we must redesign global financing mechanisms to ensure transparency and fairness for the global south.

06:52Reform is no longer a choice.

06:56It is our imperative.

06:58Madam President, to be better together, we must change together.

07:03Billions of lives depend on whether we succeed.

07:07Madam President, I thank you.

07:09I thank the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia.

07:22I thank the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia.

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