South African foreign minister nalidi
Pandora is calling out the International
Community for the way that they move for
the double standards that exist and she
specifically named Ukraine and how they
panicked over Ukraine and the
sovereignty of Ukraine versus other
countries sovereignty not being a
priority let me show you this clip we'll
come back and discuss you know I think
this notion of international rules
is very comfortable for some people to
use when it suits them but they don't
believe in international rules when it
doesn't suit them because they don't
apply International rules or law equally
in all circumstances
you can't say because Ukraine has been
invaded that suddenly sovereignty is
important but it was never important for
Palestine
very peculiar if you believe in
international law truly then wherever
sovereignty is infringed it must apply
and this is the point we've been making
that we use the framework of
international law and equally depending
on who is affected and we are arguing
that that must change
and one of the interesting changes that
has occurred is the sudden movement
because Russia has invaded Ukraine that
we say okay let's not allow the security
Council to just have the veto and let it
pass we take it to the general assembly
when some of us had been calling for the
general assembly to have a greater say
we never enjoyed support but suddenly
today you see that's where international
law begins to mean nothing because for
some we see it as a cheating
and for others we see it as a benefit so
our argument is let's revise
the International
multilateral System to ensure that we
observe that post
1948 has arrived we are glad to see so
many African leaders being bold enough
to stand up for what is right and call
out the International Community when
it's necessary especially the Western
world has been a bully for a long time
now and nothing has been said nothing
has been done recently we're seeing
people feeling comfortable in exposing
the truth and that is exactly what we
need in order to change the narrative in
order to empower our people to make our
own decisions and not depend on the
western world like we did thus far and
look at where it got us so we have to
understand that we are the ones that can
change our own lives and our own Nations
and it's just nice to hear the foreign
minister are addressing the hypocrisy
and the double standards that exists
right now anyways family let us know
down below what your thoughts are about
her speech
I'll see you on the next one bye
