(Français) 🇫🇷 France - President Addresses United Nations General Debate, 77th Session |

Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic of France, addresses the general debate of the 77th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 20-26 September 2022).

President of France, Emmanuel Macron, told the General Assembly that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a “return to the age of imperialism and colonies."

Delivering his speech at the General Assembly high-level debate today (20 Sep) in New York, President Macron said, “Today we need to make a simple choice, basically, that of war or that of peace.”

“On the 24th of February this year,” he stated, “Russia, a permanent member of the security council, through an act of aggression, an invasion, an annexation broke our collective security; it deliberately violated the U.N. Charter and the principles of sovereign equality of states."

Macron continued, "There is one sure and certain thing when I am talking to you now there are Russian troops in Ukraine, and as far as I know, there are no Ukrainian troops in Russia. That is a statement of fact."

Macron stated, “what we see since the 24th of February is a return to the age of imperialism and colonies. France rejects this."

He also said that the countries that have chosen neutrality vis-à-vis this war “are wrong and are making a historical error."

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