Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that the Russian invasion in Ukraine has evidenced the “bankruptcy” of the United Nations system, since it could not prevent the warso you have asked for a reform that annuls the right to veto in the UN Security Council.
“Since one of the sides in the conflict is a permanent member with the right to veto, the imposing capacity of the Security Council (of the United Nations) is annulled: the system is declared bankrupt,” said the president.
“Since the decisions of the United Nations General Assembly are not binding, no action has been taken to end the fighting,” Erdogan denounced in his opening speech at the Antalya Diplomatic Forum, an international meeting in a seaside resort on the Turkish Mediterranean coast.
Turkish head of state He criticized the fact that a single country can counteract the will of all the others through the right of veto that the United States, Russia, China, Great Britain and France have in the Security Council.
In this context, he recalled that he has been using the motto “The world is greater than five” for some time in his defense of a profound reform of the United Nations.
Turkey, a member of NATO, has opted for a neutral position in the conflict and acts as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine. Just yesterday he managed to meet in Antalya the foreign ministers of the two countries, Sergei Lavrov and Dmitro Kuleba, respectively, although the meeting ended without progress.
Despite this attempt to remain equidistant between the parties in conflict in order to continue talking with both, Erdogan today strongly supported Kiev.
“We cannot justify acts of aggression against the sovereignty of a neighboring country. We reject illegal measures that violate Ukraine’s territorial integrity, starting with the annexation of Crimea,” Erdogan said in his speech, broadcast live on NTV.
He also accused European countries of not having offered sufficient support to Ukraine in the past.
“If the whole West, the whole world had raised its voice with the occupation of Crimea in 2014, would we be facing the current scenario? Now those who remained silent in the face of the occupation of Crimea are saying things. Ukraine has been left alone,” he said. .
Ankara has always rejected the Russian annexation of Crimea, but at the same time it maintains close relations with Russia, a country from which it imports 33% of the natural gas it consumes.
What’s more, Russia is an important market for Turkish agricultural exports and the first source of income for the tourism sector in Turkey. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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