Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa today opined that the presence of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the United Nations in New York will make the war in Ukraine an “instantaneous issue” in this General Assembly.
“Zelensky will make the issue irreversible. And the next day there will be the so-called open Security Council, in which I will also participate with an intervention to discuss only Ukraine,” the President of the Republic told journalists in Toronto.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who is wrapping up an official visit to Canada and will travel to New York at the end of the day, stressed the importance of Zelensky “appearing live to defend his position”, saying that when he arrived in Kiev was In August the two spoke about this 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
According to the Head of State, there was a risk that this session would be “mainly dominated by very important topics such as climate, biodiversity, oceans, the environment in general – because many summits on these topics take place” on the sidelines of the General Assembly -,” and suddenly people would act as if there was no war in Ukraine, otherwise it would become secondary.”
“It will not be like this,” defended Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who promised to put a “very strong emphasis” on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its global consequences when he spoke in the general debate of this 78th session of the United Nations . General meeting.
The head of state said that he will be the eighth to speak on the first day of the general debate between the heads of state and government of the 193 member states of the United Nations, after the Turkish president, and that “President Zelensky will speak in 12th – all on Tuesday morning.”
Asked whether he would meet with the President of Ukraine on the margins of this 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, the Head of State replied: “It will be very difficult” because Zelensky “will have very little time and will not make many bilateral agreements.”
“There is the General Assembly, there is a kind of open Security Council in which Ukraine is the subject. Therefore, I would say that Zelensky will definitely stay on the first and second day,” he added.
Source: DN
