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I now give the floor to her Excellency,
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Annalena Baerbock,
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Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany.
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Mr. President, Secretary General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen.
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A baby girl was born in a metro station in Kiev just a few days ago.
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Her name, I've been told is Mia. Her family was forced to shelter just like millions of others across Ukraine.
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Shelter from bombs and rockets from tanks and grenades.
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They live in fear they live in pain.
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They are forced to separate from their loved ones because of Russia launching a war of aggression against Ukraine.
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Ladies and gentlemen.
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I believe today's vote is about Mia.
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It´s a vote about the future of our children.
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It's about the future. That is our choice.
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I'm standing here in front of you as my country's foreign minister.
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But I'm also standing here as a german who had the immensive privilege of growing up in peace and security in Europe.
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After the end of the Second World War,
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after the ruthless war that was launched by **** Germany
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the United Nation was founded 76 years ago to maintain peace and security.
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It was founded as it says in the charter to save succeeding generations from the score of war.
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To save generations like mine, but also generations like Mia's. The principles of the United Nations provide the framework for our peace.
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For an order that is based on common rules, on international law,
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on cooperation and on the peaceful settlement of conflict.
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Russia has brutally attacked this order and that is why this war is not only about Ukraine.
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Not only about Europe,
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but about all of us.
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Russia's war marks the dawn of a new era.
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It's a watershed moment.
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Yesterday's certainties are gone.
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Today we face a new reality that none of us choose.
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It's a reality that President Putin has forced upon us.
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Russia's war is one of aggression and it's based on lies.
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They were repeated again by Foreign Minister Lavrov at the Human Rights Council today in Geneva.
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You say you are acting in self defense.
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But the whole world watched as you build up your troops over months in the preparation for this attack.
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You say Russia is to protect Russian speaking from aggressions.
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But today the whole world is watching as you are bombing the homes of Russian speaking Ukrainians in Charkiw.
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You say Russia is sending peacekeepers.
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But your tanks are not carrying water,
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your tanks are not carrying nutrition for babies.
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Your tanks are not carrying piece,
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your tanks are carrying death and destruction.
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In fact, you're abusing your power as a permanent member of the Security Council.
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Mr Lavrov, you can deceive yourself,
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but you won't deceive us and you won't deceive our people and you won't deceive your own people.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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Russia's war marks a new reality.
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It requires each and every one of us to take a firm and responsible decision and to take a side.
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My country is stepping up its support to Ukraine for medicine,
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for food, humanitarian goods and shelter to refugees.
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So are many of us here today and I applaud you for it.
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We know that there are rumors spreading also today in this room that people fleeing from Ukraine who are of African origin are being discriminated again at the EU borders.
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I was in Poland this morning and together with my polish and my french colleagues we made it very clear.
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Every refugee must receive protection. No matter what the nationality,
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no matter what their origin, no matter of the color of their skin.
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We have decided to support Ukraine also militarily.
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To defend itself against the aggressor in line with Article 51 of our charter. Germany is deeply aware of its historic responsibility.
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That's why we are and will always be committed to diplomacy and seeking out peaceful solutions.
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But when our peaceful order comes under attack,
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we must face up to that new reality.
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We must act responsible.
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That's why we must unite for peace today.
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I've heard some of my colleagues say when I was phoning around the world in the last days,
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you are calling and asked to show solidarity for Europe.
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But where have you been for us in the past?
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And frankly speaking,
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i want you to tell, i hear you, we hear you and I truly believe we should always be willing to critically question our own actions,
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our past engagement in the world and I'm willing to do so.
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But this. This is about now.
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This is about families sheltering in subway stations because their homes are being bombed.
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What's at stake is a life or death of Ukrainian people.
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What's at stake is Europe's security.
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What's at stake is our common charter of the United Nations.
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Almost every country represented here in this room has a larger or more powerful neighbor.
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This is about all of us.
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Ladies and gentlemen. That's why I urge all of you to unite for peace and to vote yes to the resolution before us.
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If you are neutral in a situation of injustice,
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you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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That's how bishop Desmond Tutu once put it.
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Now, we all have to choose between peace and aggression between justice and the will of the strongest
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between taking action and turning a blind eye.
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When we go home after a vote,
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each and every one of us will have to face our children,
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our partners, our friends,
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our families at our kitchen tables.
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It is then when each and every one of us,
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we'll have to look them in the eye and tell them what choice we made.
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I thank the distinguished representative of Germany, the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany