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DATELINE: 08 DECEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
08 DECEMBER 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Elina Valtonen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE):
“Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is the largest and longest war in Europe since the Second World War. In Ukraine, Russia is violating the UN Charter and each of the ten Helsinki principles. Supporting Ukraine and promoting accountability for violations of international law have been at the heart of the work of my Chairpersonship of the OSCE. I call on all to support Ukraine in achieving a just and lasting peace – as soon as possible. I am convinced that the way this war ends will decisively shape the future of peace and stability not only in Europe, but across the world. It will also highlight the extent to which the transgressor - a Permanent Member of this Council – will respect the UN Charter and the tenth Helsinki Principle, which requires that obligations under international law must be fulfilled in good faith.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Elina Valtonen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE):
“During my Chairpersonship we have taken steps to ensure that accountability follows from Russia’s violations of international law, including the unlawful deportation of children. For instance, through the OSCE Support Program for Ukraine, we have helped register missing children and support their rehabilitation.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Elina Valtonen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE):
“There is no need to re-invent the European security order. Instead, there is a need to abide by the OSCE principles we have already agreed to, and respect international law and the UN Charter. There is also a need to utilize the OSCE fully, for what it was created for. The OSCE has great potential.”
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9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Polyansky, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“I will not waste time refuting the anti-Russian insinuations voiced today in the context of Ukraine - everything about the Ukrainian settlement is now perfectly clear. The corrupt Ukrainian princeling, who continues to trample on basic human rights and freedoms in his own country, is striving at any cost to preserve his power and everything he has stolen from his people over the years - even if it means turning the entire population into ‘cannon fodder’ and sending them to be disposed of on the front line. And his European accomplices, who are trying by all means to prevent the inglorious collapse of their ‘Anti-Russia’ project, are busy torpedoing the peaceful efforts of the American and Russian leaderships and undermining the so-called ‘Anchorage spirit.’ History will be a merciless judge of their actions.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
“Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is the largest and longest war in Europe since the Second World War,” Elina Valtonen, Finland’s foreign minister and current OSCE Chairperson-in-Office told the UN Security Council.
She said Moscow is violating the UN Charter and “each of the ten Helsinki principles,” adding that assistance to Ukraine and work on accountability have been central to her tenure. “I call on all to support Ukraine in achieving a just and lasting peace – as soon as possible.”
Valtonen said the way the conflict concludes will shape regional and global stability, as well as expectations regarding adherence to international law by a permanent Security Council member.
She outlined steps the OSCE has taken on accountability, including support for documenting the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children. “Through the OSCE Support Program for Ukraine, we have helped register missing children and support their rehabilitation,” she said.
Valtonen also underscored the importance of existing security commitments. “There is no need to re-invent the European security order,” she said.
Responding in the chamber, Russia’s deputy ambassador Dmitry Polyansky said he would “not waste time refuting the anti-Russian insinuations voiced today in the context of Ukraine.” He said, “everything about the Ukrainian settlement is now perfectly clear,” and described Ukraine’s leadership as seeking to retain power “even if it means turning the entire population into ‘cannon fodder.’”
Polyansky said European governments were “trying by all means to prevent the inglorious collapse of their ‘Anti-Russia’ project,” and said they were undermining what he called peaceful efforts by U.S. and Russian leaders. “History will be a merciless judge of their actions,” he said.
