Explicação de Voto proferido pelo Representante Permanente do Brasil, Embaixador Sérgio França Danese, em reunião da Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas sobre Carta datada de 28 de fevereiro de 2014 do Representante Permanente da Ucrânia junto às Nações Unidas dirigida ao Presidente do Conselho de Segurança - 24 de fevereiro de 2025 (texto em inglês)

Explanation of Vote by the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations, Ambassador Sérgio França Danese, at the UNGA meeting on the  Letter dated 28 February 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council
February 24th, 2025

Mr. President,

Everyone agrees that the war that has raged Ukraine in the past three years has to end. Destruction is the only concrete result of three years of violence.

Yet we have decided to abstain on resolutions L.10 and L.11 in an attempt to preserve an atmosphere that is more conducive to dialogue and the end of this conflict.

We encourage member-states to focus on building bridges, and negotiating in a transparent manner and in due regard for agreed and standard language.

In our understanding, neither of the texts before us were ripe for action today. L.10 reiterated concepts that have not, so far, helped us to advance towards peace. L.11, on the other hand, was presented with insufficient time for a constructive process of consultations and adjustment.

We believe a “landing zone” between both projects is still both possible and desirable. We see merits in both texts.  Brazil will continue to play a constructive and proactive role — both in future initiatives in this Assembly and through our Group of “Friends for Peace” — in order to find a pathway that will lead to a lasting peace in Europe, guided by the United Nations Charter and recognized tenets of negotiation processes.

The world wants peace, dialogue, effective multilateralism, and strengthened diplomacy.

For long, diplomacy has been criticized for not preventing the war in Ukraine. However, we may now finally realize that when diplomacy falls short, the solution is not less diplomacy, but more.

The United Nations is the appropriate forum to bring the parties together, facilitate a lasting agreement, and put an end to this ruthless war. 

I thank you.