speech prompts

opening and core principle

• uks position: peace must be lawful accountble and durable

• peace built on agression today= instability tomorrow

• stakes:

  • protection of smaller states globally

  • precedent for future agression

  • security council credibility

core uk legal position

• defender of the un charter

  • arr 2 (4) prohibtion on use of force

  • territorial integrity

  • non recongition of land taken by force

• supporter of lawful collective self defence art 51

• accountability through:

  • the icj and icc

  • reparations for victims

• diplomacy= uk supports talks but not diplomacy that rewards agression

• red lines:

  • no recogntion or freezing of unlawful gains

  • no sanctions relief without withdrawal and compliance

  • no false equivalence between aggressor and victim

allies and supportive states

• france=strongest ally

  • calls russias conduct aggression

  • supports withdrawal, accountability, reperations

  • endorses icj'/icc

  • shared message that peace cannot be built on erosion of charter

• greece panama guyana slovenia= agree mostly

  • focus on internation law, ihl un monitoring

  • defend sovereignty and borders

  • uk supports monitoring and humantarian clauses

  • key message: accountabiltiy stregnthens peace it doesnt undermine it

humantrian dimension (somalia)

• russias aggression disurpted black sea grain and fertiliser exports

• results= higher global food prices and reduced availability

• somalia is hihgly import dependant and already vulnerable due to conflict and climate shocks

• this is not a istant european conflict= it has direct humantrian consequences like hunger and isntability

cautious states pakistan and sierra leone

• agree that diplomacy and ceasefire are important ; but accountability and diplomacy are complemntary

• icj provisinal measures already exist; compliance is a minimum legal baseline not a poltical concession

• sierra leone lesson that ceasefire without withdrawal is a frozen conflict

  • past wars show this leads to renewed violence

• peace built on impunity is not stability its postponement

opponents china and russia

• ceasefre entrenching occupation vioaltes the un charter

• sanctions lawful under arsiwa 40-41

• icj/icc investigations are legal not poltical

• neutrality between agression and self defence= abdication of responsibility

• minsk failed due to russias non compliance

• icj ordered suspesion of mil ops which was an ignored bidning legal obligation

• humanitrian harm flows from aggression not targetted sanction

us biggest threat to uk draft

• uk cannot support

  • defacto territorial recognition

  • amnesty for agression of war crimes which are jus cogens

  • sanctions roll back

  • limits on ukraines security choices or nato path

conclusion

• uk will not tradde terriotrial inegrty or accountabiity for expeiency

• kawful peace protects smaller states

• prevents dangerous precedents

• preserves sc autjrity