Le poids des mots
Une archive choisie de discours qui ont façonné la posture des États, le sort des alliances et l’ordre international.
Le discours est un instrument d’État. Monarques, présidents, révolutionnaires et secrétaires généraux ont usé de l’allocution solennelle pour déclarer la guerre et pour demander la paix, pour lier leurs alliés et pour les ébranler, pour revendiquer la légitimité et pour la refuser à d’autres. Voici une archive choisie de tels discours, d’Élisabeth Ire à Tilbury jusqu’à nos jours, retenus pour leur incidence sur la posture des États, la forme des alliances et l’ordre international.
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19 septembre 2023
Evil cannot be trusted
On 19 September 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the UN General Assembly during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, warning that aggression cannot be trusted. Delivered in Ukrainian.
Ukraine gave up its third largest nuclear Arsenal. The world then decided Russia should become a keeper of such power. Yet, history shows it was Russia who deserved nuclear disarmament the most back in the 1990s. And Russia deserves it now. Terrorists have no right to hold nuclear weapons. No right.
The mass destruction is gaining its momentum. The aggressor is weaponizing many other things and those things are used not only against our country but against all of yours as well.
Since the start of the full-scale war, the Ukrainian ports in the Black and Azov Seas have been blocked by Russia. Until now, our ports on the Danube River remain the target for missiles and drones. And it is a clear Russia’s attempt to weaponize the food shortage on the global market in exchange for recognition for some, if not all, of the captured territories.
Russia is launching the food prices as weapons.
Is there any sense to reduce nuclear weapons when Russia is weaponizing nuclear power plants? Scary question. The global security architecture offers no response or protection against such a treacherous radiation threat… And there is no accountability for radiation blackmailers so far.
And the goal of the present war against Ukraine is to turn our land, our people, our lives, resources into a weapon against you against you, the international rules-based order. Many seats in the General Assembly Hall may become empty if Russia succeeds with its treachery and aggression.
As nukes are restrained, likewise the aggressor must be restrained and all its tools and methods of war. Each war now can become final, but it takes our unity to make sure that aggression will not break in again.
I am aware of the attempts to make some shady dealings behind the scenes.
Evil cannot be trusted.
Ask Prigozhin if one bets on Putin’s promises. Please, hear me. Let unity decide everything openly.
While Russia is pushing the world to the final war, Ukraine is doing everything to ensure that after Russian aggression no one in the world will dare to attack any nation. Weaponization must be restrained. War crimes must be punished. Deported people must come back home. And the occupier must return to their own land. We must be united to make it. And we will do it. Slava Ukraini.
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