World News | At UN, world’s divided nations agree on lack of trust

United Nations, May 4 (AP) — The world’s divided nations agreed on one thing Wednesday: a lack of trust in a world beset by conflict and crisis.

Diplomats at the UN Security Council offered ideas on how to move towards a more peaceful future – a task they say is daunting but not impossible.

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Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has opted for the debate on trust, calling it a key element of peace. He recalled that when the United Nations was formed on the ashes of World War II with the mission of preventing another world war, there was trust among former belligerents. Yet today, he said, “we’re still living in war.”

International diplomacy is under pressure, Cassis said, with UN member states admitting they have failed to take into account the setbacks and challenges facing the planet. But he stressed that the international system in which countries around the world act together “is not bankrupt” and “the real failure is inaction”.

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Cassis asked the council to take responsibility for ensuring international peace and security, rebuild broken bridges and “reflect on its potential to act in the face of mounting crises”.

Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, was outspoken about the challenges of rebuilding bridges, noting deep-seated divisions and a “trust deficit” among the council’s 15 members. He accused what he called “the treacherous activities of our former Western partners”.

“Over the past 15 to 20 years, they have succeeded in gradually destroying the green shoots of mutual understanding and cooperation that emerged after the end of the Cold War,” Nebenzia said, citing what he said was a broken situation. NATO’s commitment not to expand, the West to promote revolution in Eastern European countries that were part of the former Soviet Union, and to try to impose its own world order.

The Russian ambassador stressed that he was referring first to Ukraine, which he said “has been reduced to a pawn in the geopolitical confrontation between Russia and the West”.

NATO member Albania’s ambassador to the UN, Ferit Hoxha, countered that the council’s role was “to lead the fight for peace and security, not to be held hostage to consider the drivers of aggression and world instability” – including Russia Ongoing war in Ukraine.

He called trust the “glue that holds people together in a society” and said the conflict in Sudan, the failure of a frustrating deal in Libya’s elections and Haiti’s abandonment by the “paws of the gang” also showed what happens when there is no trust What. A breakdown of unity and trust.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres and many countries accused Russia of invading Ukraine in violation of the UN Charter – which requires respect for each country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

“To overcome this crisis, we need to work together to come up with a newer, more sustainable international security architecture,” Nebenzia told the council. (AP)

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