Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the UN Security Council no longer works to ensure global security but instead is an arena for its five permanent member states to engage in strategic confrontations.
In his speech to the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Erdogan said: "We must build a global governance architecture that is capable of representing all origins, beliefs and cultures in the world," He added: "We must immediately restructure institutions under the UN roof responsible for ensuring world peace, security, and welfare." Regarding the Russian-Ukrainian war, Erdogan stressed that his country will step up its efforts to end the war through diplomacy and dialogue on the basis of Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity.
The Turkish President explained that the agreement to export Ukrainian grains via the Black Sea prevented a "global hunger crisis," but he warned of a new crisis as a result of non-implementation of the agreement, highlighting that the failure to implement the grain agreement in all its elements pushed the world into a new crisis.
Erdogan also said permanent peace in the Middle East is only possible through a lasting solution to the Palestinian cause.
He said: "The mentality which encourages heinous attacks against the holy Quran in Europe by allowing them under the guise of freedom of expression is in fact darkening its own future." . The Turkish president warned that levels of racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia have all climbed to a dangerous breaking point.
"Racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia, which spread like a virus especially in developed countries, have reached intolerable levels," Erdogan said.
On Turkiye's relations with the European Union, President Erdogan said he expects the European Union to swiftly start fulfilling its obligations towards his country. "Especially the ambivalent attitudes towards Turkiye have to come to an end," he added.
Source: Qatar News Agency