President Zelensky’s address to Congress 16th March
2022
Speaking to the American Congress on 16th March 2022, Ukraine’s President Zelensky was calling for Shield when he said:
The destruction of our country, the
destruction of Europe. All American ports should be closed for Russian goods.
We — peace is more important than income and we have to defend this principle
in the whole world.
We already became part of the antiwar coalition
— a big antiwar coalition that unites many countries, dozens of countries,
those who reacted too in principle to President Putin’s decision to invade our
country — but we need to move on and do more.
We need to create new tools to respond quickly
and stop the war. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on
February 24th. And it would be fair if it ended in a day, in 24 hours, that
evil would be punished immediately. Today, the world does not have such tools.
The war of the past have prompted our predecessors to create institutions that
should protect us from war. But they unfortunately don’t work. We see it, you
see it.
So we need new
ones, new institutions, new alliances, and we offer them. We propose to create
an association, U-24, United for Peace, a union of responsible countries that
have the strength and consciousness to stop conflicts immediately, provide all
the necessary assistance in 24 hours if necessary, even weapons, if necessary.
Can anyone now deny that the concept
of Shield is something whose time has come? The saddest words in the English
language are, “If only” ….. it is time to act!
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