UN General Assembly
2009

peak for all who are enlightened to ascend. The milestone at which our nation stands today is the basis for moving forward to a free and safe life, to revive our own millennium-old tradition and its interrupted ties and to be again an active part of global civilization. Our democratic choice is irreversible. As a free nation, we shall not accept any forms of interference in the internal affairs of sovereign States, any pressure on them or manifestations of authoritarian thinking in international relations. We remember the price paid by our fathers for our freedom, for the freedom of Europe and the world, and for the future independence of Ukraine. We shall soon commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of the victory over fascism. This joint victory of the anti-Hitler coalition is sacred. The mission of all countries which remember the horrors of fascism is to avert any hint of a restoration of totalitarian ideology and its derivative: the policy of imperial ambitions, neglecting the value of human life and violating the right of peoples to sovereign national existence.