Addressing a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Sept 20, Archbishop Paul R Gallagher, the Vatican's foreign minister, said today the "entire international community, more than ever, cannot surrender itself and let this issue pass in silence."

"The solution to the war in Ukraine is not only a matter for Ukraine itself," he said. "All member states of the United Nations, and especially those of the Security Council, are called upon to join efforts in the search for a just and lasting peace for Ukraine as an important element of the global peace of which the world thirsts."

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