Mexico has proposed to the United Nations to arrange a committee that would come with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pope Francis, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to mediate everlasting peace between Russia and Ukraine.
The proposal was put ahead by Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón, the international minister of Mexico, whereas collaborating in a UN Security Council debate on Ukraine in New York.
This got here days after Modi, who met Putin on the sidelines of the twenty second assembly of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Uzbekistan’s Samarkand, advised the Russian chief that “today’s era is not of war”. The Indian prime minister’s remarks have been welcomed by the western world together with the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
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“Based on its pacifist vocation, Mexico believes that the international community must now channel its best efforts to achieve peace,” Casaubón mentioned.
“In this regard, I would like to share with you the proposal of the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to strengthen the mediation efforts of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, through the formation of a Committee for Dialogue and Peace in Ukraine with the participation of other heads of state and government, including, if possible, His Excellency Narendra Modi and His Holiness Pope Francis.”
He mentioned the target of the committee can be to generate new mechanisms for dialogue and create complementary areas for mediation to construct confidence, scale back tensions and open the way in which for lasting peace.
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Casaubon mentioned the Mexican delegation will proceed with the mandatory consultations to contribute in the direction of producing broad help for the mediation efforts led by the UN secretary-general in addition to for the committee, “whose formation we hope will proceed with the support of the UN member states that so decide”.
“As the Secretary-General has said, it is time to act and commit to peace. To settle for war is always to go to the precipice,” he mentioned.
The Mexican international minister argued that peace can solely be achieved via dialogue, diplomacy and by constructing efficient political channels.
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“Indifference is unacceptable, just as it is unacceptable to simply lament the fact that, so far, in the case in question, the Security Council has not been able to fulfil its essential responsibility,” he mentioned.
“The reasons why this Council can become dysfunctional are well known. It is up to us to correct them. The time is right to consider, in all seriousness, the structural reforms required to do so,” Casaubon added.
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