国連、即時行動なければ「解体を」 ウクライナ大統領、安保理で訴え

【ＡＦＰ＝時事】ウクライナのウォロディミル・ゼレンスキー大統領は５日、米ニューヨークの国連本部で開かれた国連安全保障理事会会合でビデオ演説し、ロシアのウクライナ侵攻に対して「即座に行動」しないなら、国連は「解体」すべきだと訴えた。（写真は米ニューヨークの国連本部で開かれた国連安全保障理事会でビデオ演説したウクライナのウォロディミル・ゼレンスキー大統領）
　ゼレンスキー氏は、ロシアを安保理から排除し、同国が「自らの侵略や戦争に関する（安保理の）決定を阻止できないようにする」べきだと主張。それができないなら「次の選択肢は丸ごと解体することだ」と断じた。
　「皆さんは国連を閉鎖する用意があるのか」と問い掛けた上で、「その答えがノーなら即座に行動する必要がある」と語った。
　議場では、ウクライナの首都キーウ近郊のブチャや南東部マリウポリでロシア軍がした残虐行為の証拠として、浅い穴に埋められた子どもを含む犠牲者の遺体や、両手を縛られた遺体を捉えた映像が流された。
　ゼレンスキー氏は「車に乗っていた民間人が路上で戦車に踏みつぶされた。単なる快楽のためにだ」などと説明。「数万人」のウクライナ人がロシアに連れ去られたとも主張した。
　同氏は「（ロシアは）責任を免れない」と強調した。
　これに対しロシアのワシリー・ネベンジャ国連大使は、ロシア兵による残虐行為の証拠となる目撃証言はないと反論。ウクライナからは６０万人が自主的にロシアへ「避難」しており、強制や拉致の事実はないと主張した。
　ロシアは２月２４日にウクライナへの侵攻を開始。世界中から怒りの声が上がり、ウクライナ人数百万人が避難を余儀なくされている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/04/06-10:15）

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky challenged the United Nations to act immediately or dissolve yourself altogether during a blistering address Tuesday in which he showed harrowing footage of dead bodies -- including children -- he said were victims of Russian atrocities.
Likening Russia's actions in Bucha and other Ukrainian cities to violence carried out by terrorists such as the Islamic State group, Zelensky called on the 15-member Security Council -- which aims to ensure international peace and security -- to expel Russia so it cannot block decisions about its own aggression, its own war.
Russia, as one of the five permanent members of the Council, has a veto, which it has repeatedly wielded to block resolutions and negotiations on the global stage.
That means it cannot be expelled from the body, as it would simply veto any vote or recommendation by the Security Council to do so.
If there is no alternative ... then the next option would be dissolve yourself altogether, Zelensky continued.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to close the UN? ... If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately.
Bearded and dressed in his now trademark military green T-shirt, Zelensky, speaking remotely from Kyiv, gave a chilling rendition of the atrocities he said were carried out by Russian troops against civilians in Bucha, a town outside the Ukrainian capital.
Bucha had been occupied by Russian troops, but when they withdrew recently Ukrainian authorities and independent international journalists including AFP found bodies of people in civilian clothing, some with their hands tied behind their backs.
Zelensky aired a graphic, 90-second clip of what he said were images from towns including Bucha and the southern port of Mariupol.
The footage showed partially uncovered dead people, including children, in shallow graves, several bodies in a courtyard and dead people with hands tied behind their back slumped towards a wall.
Now the world can see what the Russian military did in Bucha, Zelensky said.
They were killed in their apartments, houses, blowing up grenades, civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars in the middle of the road, just for their pleasure. They cut off limbs... slashed their throats, he said.
Women were raped and killed in front of their children, their tongues were pulled out only because the aggressors did not hear what they wanted to hear from them.
This is no different from other terrorists such as Daesh ... and here it is done by a member of the United Nations Security Council, he said, using another acronym for the Islamic State group.
Accountability must be inevitable, he said, claiming that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians had also been deported to Russia.
Moments later Russia's ambassador, in his own comments, rejected the claims entirely.
- 'No witnesses' -
Addressing his remarks directly to Zelensky, Vassily Nebenzia said Moscow places on your conscience the ungrounded accusations against the Russian military, which are not confirmed by any eye witnesses.
At least one witness has told AFP of watching Russian soldiers shoot a man in cold blood in Bucha.
Russia has claimed that images presented by Ukrainian authorities to show there had been a massacre in Bucha were fake, or that the deaths occurred after Russian soldiers pulled out of the areas.
It has not offered evidence, and satellite imagery has shown bodies there for weeks, before Moscow withdrew its troops from the town.
Nevertheless Nebenzia repeated those claims, telling the council: You only saw what they showed you. You couldn't ignore the flagrant inconsistencies in the version of events which are being promoted by Ukrainian and Western media.
He also denied Zelensky's allegation of mass deportations.
Since the invasion began over 600,000 people have been evacuated to Russia, including over 119,000 children, Nebenzia told the body.
He said the evacuations were voluntary, not coercion or abduction.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, sparking outrage across the world and displacing millions of Ukrainians.