Zelensky Pressures U.N. To Act Immediately On Russia
Laura Coates Live
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🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN tonight. |
| 0:02.5 | I'm Jake Tapper. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm live from Ukraine. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm going to warn you right now much of what you are going to see this hour is graphic |
| 0:09.6 | and can be disturbing. |
| 0:11.7 | And that's exactly what President Volodymyr Zelensky was driving home today in his direct |
| 0:16.4 | challenge to the world. |
| 0:18.3 | Now that you can see what Russia did in places such as Butchia, Ukraine, what will you |
| 0:24.9 | do, he said. |
| 0:26.7 | Zelensky did not hold back in his first address to the United Nations Security Council since |
| 0:31.1 | the beginning of this Russian invasion. |
| 0:33.8 | He methodically detailed Russia's heinous atrocities, calling them the worst war crime since |
| 0:39.8 | World War II. |
| 0:41.7 | Then Zelensky showed them to help make the case for further actions. |
| 0:46.6 | Zelensky called for the UN to act immediately, to adhere to its charter, to maintain peace |
| 0:51.8 | around the world or to not exist at all. |
| 0:56.6 | Where is the security that the Security Council needs to guarantee? |
| 1:01.2 | What is the purpose of our organization, either remove Russia as an aggressor and a source |
| 1:07.4 | of war so it cannot block decisions about its own aggression, its own war? |
| 1:15.3 | Or if there is no alternative and no option, then the next option would be dissolve yourself |
| 1:22.3 | altogether. |
| 1:23.3 | But Russia, as you might remember, holds veto power as one of the five permanent members |
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