Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “I will publicly and privately call on member states to oppose the perpetuation of these bodies.”

Hunger is caused, often intentionally, by conflict.

We are stronger than we ever were before in terms of the European Union, NATO. All of this was not part of Putin`s plan. I think he thought that we would start to fray around the edges very, very quickly.

We have held the doors open for meaningful diplomacy and we remain open to dialogue, real productive dialogue without preconditions.

We`re not going to let Russia get away with lying to the world or staining the integrity of the Security Council by using this forum as a venue for legitimizing Putin`s violence.