NEW YORK, JANUARY 10 – Addressing today a Security Council meeting on Ukraine, the Italian Permanent Representative to the UN, Maurizio Massari, reaffirmed Italy’s firm commitment to the UN Charter’s rules-based multilateral order.
Massari condemned Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, also as President of the G7 for 2024 and host of the 2025 Recovery Conference. “Italy intends to play an active role in the reconstruction and social and economic recovery of Ukraine. A bilateral Conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine was organised in Rome in April 2023, while in 2025 we will host the Ukraine Recovery Conference: together we will lay the foundations for a prosperous independent Ukraine within our common European family”, said the Ambassador.
The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022 and the Security Council has met more than 100 times to discuss the “harrowing consequences”, recalled the UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo. Briefing the Council DiCarlo remarked that “here we are, on the brink of the third year of the gravest armed conflict in Europe since the Second World War – with no end in sight”.
“The toll of this senseless war – in death, destruction and destabilization – is already catastrophic. It is terrifying to contemplate where it could lead us. It must stop”, she added. Since the start of the war, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, has verified 29,579 civilian casualties -10,242 people killed, including 575 children, and more than 19,300 injured, including 1,264 children. (@OnuItalia)
