Tunisia and the international community commemorate United Nations Day, which marks the entry into force of the United Nations Charter,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad said in a statement on Tuesday. This commemoration is a new opportunity for Tunisia to reaffirm “its full commitment to the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter and its active engagement within the multilateral system and the United Nations Organisation in particular”. The complexity of today’s world of international relations, the common and interrelated challenges, the intensification of conflicts, humanitarian and environmental crises, and the widening of the development gap between the North and the South, underscore the urgent need to strengthen international cooperation and human solidarity, in the spirit of common but differentiated responsibilities. The aim is to enhance the international community’s capacity for resilience, recovery and better reconstruction. Tunisia stresses that the international community’s belief in a common destiny and in multilateralism, within the framework of parity and in accordance with common universal principles, will be decisive if there is a sincere will and political determination to address the current issues responsibly and in compliance with international law. Seventy-eight years have passed since the creation of the United Nations Organisation. Since then, several achievements have been made for the peoples of the world, the same source said. However, “the Palestinian people continue to live under the misery of occupation, subjected to aggression, murder and displacement, without any prospect of a just, comprehensive and lasting settlement that would restore their stolen rights, including the right to self-determination and the right to establish their independent and fully sovereign state on their land, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital. With regard to the continuing brutal aggression of the occupying entity on all Palestinian lands, “the international community and the United Nations Security Council must seriously assume their responsibilities to bring the occupying entity to an immediate end to its brutal attacks, to hold it accountable for its crimes, to provide international protection to the Palestinian people, to end the inhuman and unjust blockade imposed on them, to end the protracted occupation and to grant the Palestinian State full membership in the United Nations Organisation”. Tunisia will remain “steadfast in its support for just causes and keen to strengthen multilateralism in its regional and international dimensions, including by contributing to the development of the performance of the United Nations Organisation, reforming its structures, strengthening the role of preventive diplomacy, promoting the peaceful settlement of conflicts and contributing to UN peacekeeping operations, particularly on the African continent, and supporting sustainable development for all and the fight against climate change. Tunisia will also continue to play an active and responsible role on the regional and international stage in the pursuit of a safer, more stable, fairer, more prosperous and more humane world, in which international legality, without segmentation or selectivity, and the will, sovereignty and dignity of all peoples are respected.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse