More than twenty former foreign ministers, like the Chilean Antonia Urrejolathe Brazilian Celso Lafer or the Mexican Jorge Castanedaand human rights defenders from Latin America called on the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterressuspend Russia from the UN General Assembly for its crimes in Ukraine.
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“As we write to you, the Russian Federation is systematically attacking and killing civilians across Ukraine. We are a group of Latin Americans and Ukrainians who jointly wish to raise our voice against this monstrous violation of the Charter of the United Nations. United Nations by a permanent member of the Security Council,” they wrote.
According to the letter, Russia “has completely betrayed the trust of the community of nations,” so they asked Guterres “to transmit this message to the Security Council and the General Assembly” to request that “whether Russia should be suspended from the Assemblyas South Africa was in 1974, until it behaves in accordance with its responsibilities.”
Atrocious war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed elsewhere.
In this context, they stressed that Russia “presents a special case, because it is a permanent member of the Security Council and, as such, has been entrusted by all members of the United Nations with the primary responsibility for maintaining the international peace and security“.
After reviewing the most recent Russia’s attacks on Ukrainethe signatories warned that the Russian strategy of “deliberately attacking and killing civilians in Ukraine threatens to turn the entire construction of the International Humanitarian Law in an empty shell, with consequences that go far beyond the borders of Ukraine.”
They also added that “atrocious war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed elsewhere,” as shown by the images in Loop and “war crimes that we cannot see, as in Sudan“.
“All must be condemned firmly. Ignoring certain violations and denouncing others for geopolitical preferences contributes to weakening the protection of civilians. Double standards are double standards, regardless of the ideology“, they concluded.
Among the signatories of the letter are Antonia Urrejola, former foreign minister of Chile and former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Diego García-Sayán, former Peruvian foreign minister and former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Jorge Castañeda, Noemí Sanín and Celso Lafer, former foreign ministers of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, respectively.
Also Oleksandra Matviichuk, President of the Center for Civil Liberties and laureate Nobel Peace Prizeamong others.
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