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Mr.
President, Excellencies,
This Emergency Security Council
meeting has been called because a mere -- mere week after Russia
sent drones into Poland, three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets, with their transponders off,
entered Estonian airspace without
authorization and lingered for 12 minutes. On the same day, two Russian fighter
jets
violated the security zone over the Polish
drilling platform in our economic zone in the Baltic Sea.
If these were accidents, why not immediately acknowledge them and apologize? We
have given Russia a pass in the past in such circumstances, but we have not
heard any apologies, only lies. Together with the intensification of attacks on
Ukraine, they seem to be an eloquent comment on (quote) moving "from
confrontation to dialogue" (end quote)
promised by Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
These breaches of airspace are suspect because they are an escalation of hybrid
war which Russia has waged against the West for years:
- murders of politicians, journalists, human
rights defenders and defectors; - cyber attacks against hospitals and
financial institutions; -
arsons, including in Poland, UK, and Lithuania; - postal packages containing incendiary
devices all over Europe, including Germany; - attacks on Ukrainian embassies, in
addition to standard espionage and disinformation.
Excellencies,
This
council has a responsibility to send a clear message that such provocations will
not be tolerated. It must stand in solidarity with Estonia, Romania, Poland, and
all nations whose sovereignty is threatened by systemic Russian aggression.
To the representatives of Russia, I have this to say:
We know
you don't care for international law, and you are incapable of living in peace
with your neighbors. Your insane nationalism contains a lust for domination that
will not cease until you realize that the age of empires is over and that your
empire will not be rebuilt.
Every drone strike by the heroes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, may God bless
them, brings this day closer. Your three-day "special
military operation" can't even conquer Donbas for 10 years now.
But the potential for criminal, catastrophic Russian miss -- mistakes is still
there.
By ordering mobilization in 1914, you precipitated the start of World War I,
which bled Europe white and led to your
Bolshevik Revolution.
By singing -- By signing the
Hitler-Stalin Pact, you helped launch World
War II, the bloodiest in history.
By Sovietizing Central Europe, you caused the Cold War.
Don't start another one. We are peaceful democracies who have studiously avoided
actively joining your attempt to reconquer Ukraine. But we will not be
intimidated.
I have only one request to the Russian government:
If
another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or
by mistake, and gets shot down and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please
don't come here to whine about it.
You have been warned.
Thank you.
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