Uma declaração de invejável atualidade - Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Uma declaração de invejável atualidade Paulo Roberto de Almeida Parece, de fato, extremamente atual: "É necessário opormo-nos a todas as ideias tendentes à criação de sistemas que possam desfechar na hegemonia de uma nação sobre outras, tanto quanto no domínio dos fortes sobre os fracos. O mundo não mais tolera impérios cesaristas erigidos e suportados pela força e tendo a pretensão de submeter as outras soberanias. Passou o tempo em que a classificação das nações se fazia de acordo com a extensão e a qualidade do seu poderio militar... A força das armas cede caminho à da razão. A violência recua ante as prerrogativas da justiça. O egoísmo nacionalista se desvanece em face do impulso pela política de cooperação, fraternidade e paz." Parece atual, mas não é. A frase foi pronunciada por Afrânio de Melo Franco, pai de Afonso Arinos, ele chanceler do governo provisório de Getúlio Vargas, em 1934, em alocução feita no aniversário do armistício de 1918, em 11 de novembro de 1934, quando ele já tinha deixado a chancelaria brasileira, em cerimônia internacional promovida pela Columbia University, sob os auspícios da Fundação Carnegie para a Paz, para a qual tinha sido convidado em sua condição pessoal de grande estadista. Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco, filho de Afrânio, que também presidiu uma Comissão Constitucional prévia à Constituinte de 1987-88 – o pai tinha feita a sua, também no Itamaraty do Rio, em 1934 –, foi igualmente chanceler duas vezes nos anos 1960, a primeira no governo presidencial de Jânio Quadros, a segunda num dos gabinetes do governo parlamentarista de João Goulart. A despeito do otimismo de Afrânio, o despotismo dos fortes, antes Hitler, agora Putin, continua a prevalecer. Fonte: Afonso Arinos, Um Estadista da República, vol. III – Fase Internacional, 1955, p. 1518.

O G7 adotou a única postura possível, a do Direito Internacional, a da Justiça; o G20 e o Brasil não têm a mesma postura digna

 O G7 já se pronunciou, claramente e unissonamente, em favor da Ucrânia, contra a agressão russa contra o país. Já o G20, em função da postura vergonhosamente "neutra", "imparcial" ou "equilibrada" de países como o Brasil, não conseguiu tomar posição.

O Brasil de Bolsonaro está realmente do outro lado do mundo.

Paulo Roberto de Almeida

 G7 Leaders’ Statement 

Berlin, 11 March 2022 

We the Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) remain resolved to stand with the Ukrainian people and government who heroically resist Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military aggression and war of choice against their sovereign nation. This unprovoked and unjustified attack is causing enormous suffering and a tragic loss of life, including through the increasingly indiscriminate bombing and shelling of civilians in schools, homes, and hospitals. 

We are united in our determination to hold President Putin and his regime accountable for this unjustified and unprovoked war that has already isolated Russia in the world. The world should join together in calling on President Putin and his regime to immediately stop its ongoing assault against Ukraine and withdraw its military forces. We stand in solidarity with those who are bravely opposing the invasion of Ukraine. 

We urge Russia to ensure safe and unhindered humanitarian access to victims of its assault in Ukraine, and to allow safe passage for civilians wishing to leave. We call for, and commit to provide, humanitarian, medical and financial support to refugees from Ukraine. 

Since President Putin launched the Russian Federation’s invasion on February 24, our countries have imposed expansive restrictive measures that have severely compromised Russia’s economy and financial system, as evidenced by the massive market reactions. We have collectively isolated key Russian banks from the global financial system; blunted the Central Bank of Russia´s ability to utilise its foreign reserves; imposed sweeping export bans and controls that cut Russia off from our advanced technologies; and targeted the architects of this war, that is Russian President Vladimir Putin and his accomplices, as well as the Lukashenko regime in Belarus. 

In addition to announced plans, we will make further efforts to reduce our reliance on Russian energy, while ensuring that we do so in an orderly fashion and in ways that provide time for the world to secure alternative and sustainable supplies. In addition, private sector companies are leaving Russia with unprecedented speed and solidarity. We stand with our companies that are seeking an orderly withdrawal from the Russian market. 

We remain resolved to isolate Russia further from our economies and the international financial system. Consequently, we commit to taking further measures as soon as possible in the context of our ongoing response and consistent with our respective legal authorities and processes: 

First, we will endeavor, consistent with our national processes, to take action that will deny Russia Most-Favoured-Nation status relating to key products. This will revoke important benefits of Russia’s membership of the World Trade Organization and ensure that the products of Russian companies no longer receive Most-Favoured-Nation treatment in our economies. We welcome the ongoing preparation of a statement by a broad coalition of WTO members, including the G7, announcing their revocation of Russia’s Most-Favoured-Nation status. 

Second, we are working collectively to prevent Russia from obtaining financing from the leading multilateral financial institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Russia cannot grossly violate international law and expect to benefit from being part of the international economic order. We welcome the IMF and World Bank Group’s rapid and ongoing efforts to get financial assistance to Ukraine. We also welcome the steps the OECD has taken to restrict Russia’s participation in relevant bodies. 

Third, we commit to continuing our campaign of pressure against Russian elites, proxies and oligarchs close to President Putin and other architects of the war as well as their families and their enablers. We commend the work done by many of our governments to identify and freeze mobile and immobile assets belonging to sanctioned individuals and entities, and resolve to continue this campaign of pressure as a matter of priority. To that end, we have operationalised the task force announced on February 26, which will target the assets of Russian elites close to President Putin and the architects of his war. Our sanctions packages are carefully targeted so as not to impede the delivery of humanitarian assistance. 

Fourth, we commit to maintaining the effectiveness of our restrictive measures, to cracking down on evasion and to closing loop-holes. Specifically, in addition to other measures planned to prevent evasion, we will ensure that the Russian state and elites, proxies and oligarchs cannot leverage digital assets as a means of evading or offsetting the impact of international sanctions, which will further limit their access to the global financial system. It is commonly understood that our current sanctions already cover crypto-assets. We commit to taking measures to better detect and interdict any illicit activity, and we will impose costs on illicit Russian actors using digital assets to enhance and transfer their wealth, consistent with our national processes. 

Fifth, we are resolved to fighting off the Russian regime’s attempts to spread disinformation. We affirm and support the right of the Russian people to free and unbiased information. 

Sixth, we stand ready to impose further restrictions on exports and imports of key goods and technologies on the Russian Federation, which aim at denying Russia revenues and at ensuring that our citizens are not underwriting President Putin’s war, consistent with national processes. We note that international companies are already withdrawing from the Russian market. We will make sure that the elites, proxies and oligarchs that support President Putin’s war are deprived of their access to luxury goods and assets. The elites who sustain Putin’s war machine should no longer be able to reap the gains of this system, squandering the resources of the Russian people. 

Seventh, Russian entities directly or indirectly supporting the war should not have access to new debt and equity investments and other forms of international capital. Our citizens are united in the view that their savings and investments should not fund the companies that underpin Russia’s economy and war machine. We will continue working together to develop and implement measures that will further limit Russia’s ability to raise money internationally. 

We stand united and in solidarity with our partners, including developing and emerging economies, which unjustly bear the cost and impact of this war, for which we hold President Putin, his regime and supporters, and the Lukashenko regime, fully responsible. Together, we will work to preserve stability of energy markets as well as food security globally as Russia’s invasion threatens Ukraine’s capacity to grow crops this year. 

We continue to stand with the Ukrainian people and the Government of Ukraine. We will continue to evaluate the impacts of our measures, including on third countries, and are prepared to take further measures to hold President Putin and his regime accountable for his attack on Ukraine. 

Declaração do Brasil na sessão extraordinária da AGNU sobre o caso da agressão russa na Ucrânia - Ainda em cima do muro: Paulo Roberto de Almeida

 Mais uma vez, a diplomacia brasileira, não por culpa dela, mas por culpa do psicopata no poder, e dos generais eunucos do Planalto, ficou em cima do muro, e não disse o que seria preciso dizer: HOUVE UMA AGRESSÃO INJUSTIFICADA de uma nação pacífica, POR UM CRIMINOSO DE GUERRA, houve uma clara VIOLAÇÃO FLAGRANTE DO DIREITO INTERNACIONAL, uma ruptura nítida da CARTA DAS NAÇÕES UNIDAS, e, pior do que tudo, ocorreram ATROCIDADES perpetradas pelas tropas russas contra a população ucraniana. 

Não esperava que a diplomacia brasileira dissesse tudo isso, mas ela se recusa, POR CAUSA DO ALOPRADO NO PLANALTO, e dos seus generais amestrados, a chamar as coisas pelo nome. Quando se fala algo deste gênero: 

"to stop and reverse the belligerent actions before it is too late"

isso representa uma COVARDIA, pois só existem ações beligerantes de uma parte. Quando o Brasil repete que quer uma "cessação de hostilidades, precisaria ficar claro que essas hostilidades NÃO SÃO DAS DUAS PARTES, e que a parte mais fraca está apenas se defendendo de uma AGRESSÃO. Isso é hipocrisia, certamente motivada pelo generalecos amestrados pelo psicopata no poder.

O chanceler Carlos França, numa entrevista concedida à GloboNews, no final do dia 28/02/2022, disse que "nossa posição [do Brasil] é de equilíbrio e não de neutralidade [ou seja DESMENTIU o presidente]; O que o presidente pensou, interpretou ele, seria imparcialidade, uma "posição balanceada".  Mais ainda, disse que o Brasil não quer apontar um culpado [??!!!, SIC três vezes]; Disse ainda que a fortaleza do Brasil é de construção de consenso, busca do diálogo e da conciliação, e que "as sanções não resolvem o problema" [SIC quatro vezes!]

Pergunto (PRA), como ser equilibrado NUMA HORA DESSAS? Quando existe um agressor que se recusa a "cessar hostilidades", como recomenda o Brasil? E quando não se diz claramente QUEM ESTÁ AGREDINDO QUEM?

Finalmente, também corrigiu o presidente, que teria dito a seus "admiradores" na praia que "falei há pouco com o Putin por duas horas", esclarecendo que não houve essa conversa. O presidente é um MENTIROSO, portanto.

Continuo dizendo que a posição diplomática do Brasil continua VERGONHOSA, mas a culpa NÃO É do Itamaraty, e sim dos aloprados que mandam na diplomacia.

Paulo Roberto de Almeida

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Declaração do Representante Permanente do Brasil junto às Nações Unidas, Embaixador Ronaldo Costa Filho, em sessão especial de emergência da Assembleia Geral da ONU sobre a situação na Ucrânia - 28 de fevereiro de 2022 (texto em inglês)

NOTA À IMPRENSA Nº 34

Declaração do Representante Permanente do Brasil junto às Nações Unidas, Embaixador Ronaldo Costa Filho, em sessão especial de emergência da Assembleia Geral da ONU sobre a situação na Ucrânia - 28 de fevereiro de 2022 (texto em inglês)

Publicado em 28/02/2022 18h45

Statement by the Permanent Representative Ambassador Ronaldo Costa Filho in the Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly on Ukraine

28 February 2022

Mr. President,

Mr. Secretary-General,

This is a defining moment for our organization and for the world. When the drafters of the Charter envisaged our current collective security system back in 1945, they probably thought that they had seen the worst in terms of tragedy and human suffering. If they were here today, they would doubt that assessment. We are under a swift escalation of tensions that could put all of humanity in risk. But we still have time to stop it. 

Brazil voted in favor of the draft resolution before the Security Council on the situation in Ukraine. We regret that the draft was not adopted, but we firmly believe that the Security Council has not yet exhausted the instruments at its disposal to contribute to a negotiated and diplomatic solution towards peace. 

The urgency of the situation convinced us of the need to add the voice of the General Assembly to that of the Security Council in seeking solutions to the crisis in and around Ukraine.  No one can deny the primary responsibility of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security, nor the complementary role that this Assembly can play to that end. 

Brazil welcomes the engagement of the UN Secretary-General in attempting to deescalate the growing tensions. It also notes that Ukraine has initiated a case in the International Court of Justice based on the Genocide Convention. This is the moment for the principal organs of the United Nations to work together in pursuing one of the Organizations’ main objectives: to save us from the scourge of war.  

For that, we need to be exceedingly cautious in moving forward, both in the General Assembly and elsewhere. We are currently witnessing a succession of events that, if not contained soon, would lead to a much broader confrontation. Everyone will suffer, not just those who are fighting. Those who have repeatedly pleaded for de-escalation will also bear the costs of the power play between NATO and Russia that we are currently witnessing.

Over the last years, we have seen the progressive deterioration of the security situation and balance of power in Eastern Europe. The undermining of the Minsk agreements by all parties and the discrediting of the security concerns voiced by Russia prepared the ground for the crisis we are all witnessing.

Let me be clear, however: this situation in no way justifies the use of force against the territorial integrity and sovereignty of any member state. It is against the most basic norms and principles we all abide for and a clear breach of the UN Charter.

 

Mr. President,

It is of our collective interest to jointly do all we can to stop and reverse the belligerent actions before it is too late. Brazil reiterates its calls for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, as well as for full respect for international humanitarian law.

Equally important, we call all actors involved to reassess their decisions concerning the supply of weapons, the recourse to cyberattacks and the application of selective sanctions, particularly those which could affect the global economy, including the critical area of food security. At this moment, we need constructive solutions; not actions that will only prolong hostilities and spread the conflict, with rippling effects to the world’s economy and security.

As we speak, hundreds of thousands of civilians have already fled Ukraine. Many more will certainly follow – millions perhaps. The destruction of infrastructure has left people without electricity and water. 

Damage to essential infrastructure, interruption of basic services, including transportation and access to basic supplies, the danger to persons with disabilities, the elderly and children are causes of grave concern. There are pressing humanitarian needs for medical services, medicines, health equipment, shelter and protection. The prospect of hostilities conducted in populated areas, compounded by the possible use of explosive weapons and direct participation of civilians is also extremely worrisome. We urge all parties to avoid this scenario at all costs, bearing in mind the grave risks it poses to the civilian population.

We call on all parties to adopt measures to ensure the protection of civilians and of critical civilian infrastructure, as well as to ensure unhindered humanitarian access to all those in need and the protection of refugees and displaced persons. We also reiterate our appeal to Ukraine and Russia to facilitate the withdrawal of all persons who want to leave the Ukrainian territory. Brazil expresses its gratitude to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and others who are facilitating the exit of people fleeing the conflict, including Brazilians and Latin Americans. 

Let me also take this opportunity to express our solidarity to all families who have lost someone in this war; to all people left without home, water and electricity; to those who are fleeing in fear, sometimes with nowhere to go; and to everyone who is now trapped in a conflict zone, desperately attempting to find refuge. I wish to commend all personnel that are now in Ukraine trying to alleviate the suffering of the population. We know that you are doing your best in very challenging circumstances, and we know that more could be done to assist you in your efforts. 

Mr. President,

Few times has the General Assembly been convened under the Uniting for Peace Resolution. By meeting today, the international community shows its unwavering determination to reach a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. 

A peaceful settlement of the crisis is not only the cessation of hostilities. It is about creating the conditions for a greater sense of security among all involved. It is about rebuilding bridges and regaining trust. And it is about respect: respect for each other’s legitimate security concern, for civilian lives, for all countries that do not want a war, for international law, and for the most basic principles that have guided this Organization since its inception.

 

Thank you.