UN Must Become and Agent of Peace in Ukraine

The primary reason for creating the UN in the wake of World War Two was to stop future wars. “And yet the UN keeps getting bogged down on tangential issues and failing in that core mission,” said Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau at the United Nations Security Council.

“The UN’s inability to stop the war in Ukraine is an unfortunate example of this failure,” observed Deputy Secretary Landau. “That terrible war has now lasted more than four years longer than the United States itself was involved in World War Two.”

President Trump has made it clear that he’s determined to end the war in Ukraine. “That war never would have happened if he’d been president,” said Deputy Secretary Landau, “and it’s imperative to end the senseless death and destruction.”

The war doesn’t just affect the belligerents. It has thrown the entire international political, economic, and military order out of whack and has imposed enormous costs on the belligerents, first and foremost, but also on many other nations.

President Trump continues to pursue a deal to end the war. Talks with both sides have remained ongoing, said Deputy Secretary Landau.

“What we’re trying to do is to show both sides that they have more to gain from ending the war than from continuing to fight. Peace would unlock prosperity like this region has never seen before.”

It’s unfortunate that the UN has failed to play a constructive role in seeking peace between Russia and Ukraine.

“It’s our fervent hope that the U.S. Presidency of the Security Council this month can mark a moment where the UN produces more than words and actually creates a pathway for peace,” said Deputy Secretary Landau. “We extend a hand of friendship and cooperation to anyone who has constructive ideas for how we can close a deal to end the war.”

Deputy Secretary Landau called on both sides to “negotiate in good faith, in a spirit of flexibility, compromise, and a duty to protect and preserve the lives of their citizens.”

“There is no greater honor than being a peacemaker,” he said. It’s time for the UN to “play a role in bringing about peace in Ukraine, so that people looking back on this period won’t say that the UN rendered itself irrelevant, and that peace was ultimately achieved despite the UN, not because of the UN.”