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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