ERDOĞAN: UNSC HAS BECOME BATTLEGROUND FOR 5 PERMANENT MEMBERS

Wed 20 September 2023:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stressed in his speech, “UN Security Council is ‘no longer guarantor of world security’ but became ‘battleground’ for 5 permanent member states.”

Hailing UN chief Guterres’ ‘New Agenda for Peace,’ Turkish President Erdoğan notes Türkiye’s ‘numerous initiatives to strengthen peace, stability’

Erdoğan added that :Indications of xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia escalating into new crisis have reached alarming levels over past year,”.

About the EU Erdoğan said that Türkiye expects EU to fulfill “its long-neglected obligations towards our country,” said the country’s president on Tuesday.

“The increasingly complex nature of regional and global challenges indicates that there is a need, now more than ever, to advance Turkish-European Union relations on a healthy basis,” said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, addressing the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

“We expect the European Union to swiftly start fulfilling its long-neglected obligations towards our country,” said the president.

“Especially the ambivalent attitudes towards Türkiye have to come to an end,” he added.

Türkiye applied for EU membership in 1987 and has been a candidate country since 1999.

Negotiations for full membership started in October 2005 but have stalled in recent years due to political hurdles erected by some countries.

No status other than Azerbaijani territory acceptable for Karabakh

Karabakh is Azerbaijani territory, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday, asserting that the imposition of any other status for the region would never be accepted.

“We have supported the negotiation process between Azerbaijan and Armenia from the beginning. However, we see that Armenia has not fully seized this historic opportunity,” Erdoğan said in his address at the 78th session of UN General Assembly in New York.

He expressed Türkiye’s expectation that Armenia fulfill its commitments, especially those related to the opening of the Zangezur corridor, a key planned unimpeded road through Armenian territory connecting Azerbaijan to its Nakhchivan exclave.

“As everyone now accepts, Karabakh is Azerbaijani territory. The imposition of any other status will never be accepted,” Erdoğan underlined, adding that the primary goal should now be peaceful coexistence for all, including Armenians, on Azerbaijani territory.

-A News

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