https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/4865844
1. We, representatives of Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Nicaragua, the State of Palestine, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, and Venezuela, met at the ministerial level, in New York, on the sidelines of the High-Level Week of the 76th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in order to undertake an assessment of recent developments in the international arena, including of challenges and threats to the Charter of the United Nations, which underpins multilateralism, and to exchange views on existing, new, and emerging issues of collective concern and common interest.
2. We recall the declaration adopted on 06 July 2021, in New York, at the ambassadorial level, and reaffirm that the Charter of the United Nations and its purposes and principles remain timeless, universal, and that they are all indispensable not only for preserving and promoting international peace and security, the rule of law, economic development and social progress, as well as all human rights for all, but also for achieving a more peaceful, prosperous, just and equitable world, and a system based, precisely, on the rules contained in that universal and legally binding instrument that constitutes an exceptional achievement for humankind and a true act of faith on the best of humanity.
3. We vow to spare no effort in preserving, promoting and defending the prevalence and validity of the Charter of the United Nations, which, in the current international juncture, has a renewed and even more important value and relevance. In this regard, we express our resolve to expand the work of our Group of Friends beyond the United Nations Headquarters, in New York, particularly at the Offices of the United Nations in Geneva, Nairobi and Vienna, as well as at the Headquarters of other UN Specialized Agencies, in order to advance our joint efforts for ensuring the respect and adherence to the Charter of the United Nations, in both its letter and spirit.
4. We express our serious concern at the growing resort to unilateralism, in detriment not only of multilateralism, but also of international cooperation and solidarity, which must be deepened now more than ever, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to forge collective, inclusive and effective solutions to the common challenges and threats of a 21st century of interconnectedness. Hence, while renewing our firm commitment with a reinvigorated multilateralism that shall have the United Nations at its centre, we convey our support to nations and peoples subjected to unilateral and arbitrary approaches that violate both the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the basic norms of international law, and renew our call for the full respect to the inalienable right of peoples to self-determination, as well as the territorial integrity and political independence of all nations.
5. We invite those members of the international community that are committed with the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, with the prevalence of legality over force, with the values of dialogue, tolerance and solidarity, as well as with an effective and inclusive multilateralism, in which all regions and all size of States are equal and engaged alike, to consider joining our Group of Friends and/or endorsing this Declaration at their earliest convenience, as part of our common efforts to advance our common agenda and to ultimately keep delivering on the promise of the Charter of the United Nations and ensuring that no one is left behind.
New York, 23 September 2021
1. We, representatives of Algeria, Angola, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Nicaragua, the State of Palestine, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Syria, and Venezuela, met at the ministerial level, in New York, on the sidelines of the High-Level Week of the 76th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in order to undertake an assessment of recent developments in the international arena, including of challenges and threats to the Charter of the United Nations, which underpins multilateralism, and to exchange views on existing, new, and emerging issues of collective concern and common interest.
You would think that defending the United Nations charter would be a non-controversial issue that ALL nations would naturally support.
But no.
What’s revealing are the nations that are not part of this group: the self-styled “democracies” of the Free World. The United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Belgium, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Iceland, Ireland, Finland, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, and last but not least, the United States of America.
Instead, all these vaunted democracies support the “Rules-Based International Order,” which is nothing more than attempt to supplant the UN Charter in particular, which is the lynchpin of international law in general.
Call them the “Rules-based” Rogue States.
Thanks for posting this declaration; it needs to be spread far and wide. Somehow, the world’s independent nations must subordinate the Outlaw US Empire and its vassals to the UN and its Charter, for they’re in constant violation which is the #1 reason for global strife and crises, a fact constantly denied by the Empire. It’s my hope that more nations will heed point #5’s call to join this group and help it to attain the above goal.
This is surreal.
Only 18 of 193 UN members showed up.
Only 3 of 12 SCO members or observers.
Didn’t former NAM members get the memo?
Are any permitted to be neutral in this New Age?
It has a League of Nations moment to it; the Great Powers represented in these 18 are perfunctorily attending for the record.
The former Hegemon forms a fitting bracket to this woeful image – his tête-à-tête was even less attended:
https://www.voltairenet.org/article214193.html
“𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵; 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥;
𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥,
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥-𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘥;”
thanks Saker – nice to know Zone B is helping Zone A citizens….who have not really helped themselves that much yet.
Sergei Lavrov just finished his speech at the UNGA – he finished off with the following:
“Here’s a hashtag: # Our Rules are the UN Charter!“.
There were claps around the audience. Someone should get that trending.