UN General Assembly
2024

Moreover, in 1970, the General Assembly unanimously adopted a Declaration stipulating that the territorial integrity of states must be respected only if their governments recognise the right of peoples to self-determination and thus represent the entire population of their respective territories. I emphasise—this was a unanimous resolution of the General Assembly following many years of complex debate. There is no need to prove that the Ukrainian neo-Nazis who seized power in Kyiv through a US-backed violent coup in February 2014 neither represented nor represent the Russian-speaking population of Crimea, Donbas, or Novorossiya. --- ### Page 6: Western leaders—ordinarily obsessed with human rights—have been conspicuously silent when it comes to the rights of people under the control of their Kyiv clients. In light of this amnesia, allow me to highlight another requirement from that same first article of the UN Charter: to respect the **rights and fundamental freedoms of all individuals**, regardless of race, gender, language, or religion.