Irish PM: Ukraine holds the same right to territorial integrity and sovereignty as the rest of us

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris stated this at the final plenary session of the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"Ukraine holds the same right to its territorial integrity and sovereignty as the rest of us. If we reverse, to a global system where the organizing principle is ‘might is right,’ the independence we enjoy today as free nations will be at serious risk,” he said.

Harris stressed there is a simple truth: Russia has illegally invaded Ukraine. It continues to attack civilians and commit innumerable crimes against humanity.

“It continues to attack civilians and civilian infrastructure in an attempt to break the will of the Ukrainian people," the Irish Prime Minister said.

He also focused on the issue of thousands of Ukrainian children who have been forcibly deported, abducted and taken from their parents. 

As reported, the Global Peace Summit participants reaffirm that International Law and the UN Charter must serve as the foundation for a just peace in Ukraine.

Photo: Swiss Foreign Ministry