“Our aim is to make the greatest possible contributions to world peace and prosperity”
Addressing the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Erdoğan said: “Faced with conflicts and disputes around us, our aim is to make the greatest possible contributions to world peace and prosperity.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
“We have been striving to keep both our Russian and Ukrainian friends at the table since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, with the motto ‘there are no winners in war and no losers in peace’,” President Erdoğan said.
Underscoring that they will continue to increase our efforts to end the war through diplomacy and dialogue on the basis of Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity, President Erdoğan added: “Through the Black Sea Initiative, which we launched together with the United Nations, we prevented the threat of a global hunger crisis by ensuring the shipment of 33 million tons of grain products to world markets. As a result of our personal efforts, the initiative has been extended three times. However, since having come to a deadlock as of July 17, it has left the world with a new crisis.”
Noting that they pursue their contacts to maintain this humanitarian bridge which reaches out to areas where the threat of global hunger persists, President Erdoğan stressed: “In this regard, we attach importance to the plan aimed at immediate shipping of 1 million tons of grain to African countries. Faced with conflicts and disputes around us, our aim is to make the greatest possible contributions to world peace and prosperity.”
“IT IS AN UNFORTUNATE DEVELOPMENT THAT THE UN’ CROSS-BORDER HUMANITARIAN AID OPERATION HAS BEEN INTERRUPTED”
“The humanitarian tragedy in Syria, now in its 13th year, is making living conditions more and more difficult for everyone in the region, regardless of origin and faith,” President Erdoğan stated, and went on to say: “We are the only country to have displayed a principled, constructive and fair attitude vis-à-vis the developments which are threatening Syria's political unity, as well as its social integrity and economic structure. It is becoming increasingly important to end the crisis to the south of our country through a comprehensive, permanent and sustainable solution, which will meet the legitimate expectations of Syrian people. The devastating impact of the February 6 earthquakes, which affected 14 million people in our country, also took its toll on Syria. The already dire humanitarian situation, particularly in the northwest of Syria, has worsened. It is an unfortunate development that the United Nations’ cross-border humanitarian aid operation in the region has been interrupted at such a time.”
Underscoring that Türkiye will definitely not abandon to their fate the more than 4 million people in northern Syria, who are struggling to survive in difficult conditions, President Erdoğan continued as follows: “As the construction of houses beyond our borders, which we are pioneering, are completed, the return of refugees to these places will accelerate. However, the biggest threat to Syria’s territorial integrity and political unity is the support given to terrorist organizations under the direction of the powers which harbor designs on this country. The Syrian people, overwhelmed by the PKK-PYD terrorist organization on one hand, and the radical groups organized on the basis of sectarian divisions on the other, have reached the point of revolt.”
