 Yn y gallwch am ball, Ms Roger Waters. Here I am. Madame President, Excellencies, distinguished members of the Council. Ladies and Gentlemen, I feel profoundly honoured to be afforded that singular opportunity to brief your Excellencies today. With your forbearance, I shall endeavour to express what I believe to be, the feelings of countless of our brothers and sisters all over the world, revenge to your own land and your own world both here in New York and across the seas. I shall invite them in to these hallowed halls to have their say. We are here to consider possibilities for peace in war-torn Ukraine especially in light of the forementioned increasing volume of weapons arriving in that unhappy country. every morning when i sit down at my laptop i think of our brothers and sisters in ukraine and elsewhere who through no fault of their own find themselves in dire and often deadly circumstances over there in ukraine they may be soldiers facing another deadly day at the front oedd yna'r i'w mwyaf o'r mwyaf o'r paeth. Mae'n ddweud y cwestiwn o'r ddweud, ond rydyn ni'n ddweud yn gwneud yma'r ysgol, oedd yna'r i'w sgol. Rwy'n gweithio'n gweithio, i'w ddweud y llwyth yn ymgyrch arall, ond rydyn ni'n gweithio ar gyfer y mawr. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'n gweithio ar gyfer y mawr, rydyn ni'n gweithio'n gweithio ar gyfer y stwrn, yn gweithio'r gweithio, just barbed wa and watch towers and walls and enmity or they might be over here in a big rich city like new yw York here brothers and sisters can still find themselves in dire straits maybe somehow however hard they worked all their lives they lost their footing on the slippery tilting deck of the neoliberal capitalist ship we call life in the city and fell overboard to end up drowning maybe they got sick maybe they took out a student loan maybe they missed a payment the margins are slim who knows but now they live on the street in a pile of cardboard maybe even within sight of this united nations building anyway wherever they are all over the world war zone or not together they make up a majority a voiceless majority and today i shall endeavour to speak to them we the people wish to live we wish to live in peace in conditions of parity that give us the real opportunity to look after ourselves and our loved ones we are hard workers and we are ready to work hard all we need is a fair crack of the whip maybe that's an unfortunate choice of idiom after 500 years of imperialism colonialism and slavery anyway please help us to help us you may have to consider our predicament and to do so you may have to take your eye off the ball for a moment to put your own goals momentarily to one side what are your goals by the way and here maybe i direct my enquiries more to the five permanent members of this council what are your goals what is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow bigger profits for war industries more power globally a bigger share of the global cake is mother earth a cake to be gobbled up does not a bigger share of the cake mean less for everyone else what if today in this place of safety we were to look in another direction to look at our capacity for empathy for instance to put ourselves in others shoes like right now for instance the shoes of that chap on the other side of this room or even the shoes of the voiceless majority if they have any shoes that is the voiceless majority is concerned that your wars yes your wars for these perpetual wars are not about choosing that your wars will destroy the planet that is our home and along with every other living thing we will be sacrificed on the altar of two things profits from the war to line the pockets of the very very few and the hegemonic march of some empire or other towards unipola world domination please reassure us that that is not your vision for there is no good outcome down that road that road leads only to disaster everyone on that road has a red button in their briefcase and the further we go down that road the closer the itchy fingers get to that red button and the closer we all get to Armageddon look across the room at this level we're all wearing the same shoes excuse me so back to Ukraine the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation was illegal I condemn it in the strongest possible terms also the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked so I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms there that's got that out of the way when I wrote this speech yesterday I included an observation that the para veto in this council only lay in the hands of its permanent members and that I was concerned that that was undemocratic and rendered this council somewhat toothless this morning however I had a revelation upon waking toothless maybe toothless in some ways is a good thing if if this is a toothless chamber I can open my big mouth on behalf of the voiceless without fear of getting my head bitten off how cool is that anyway I read in the paper this morning some anonymous diplomat quoted as saying Roger Waters to address this authority council whatever next Mr Bean oh you know what they're like anyway sorry for those of you who don't know Mr Bean is an ineffectual character in an English comedy show on television so it's a penny to a pound the anonymous diplomat is an Englishman ah thank you sir anyway I think it's time to introduce my mother Mary Duncan Waters she was a big influence on me she was a school teacher I say was she's been dead for 15 years my father Eric Fletcher Waters was a big influence on me too he too is dead he was killed on the 18th of February 1944 near Apria near the Anzio of Brucet in Italy I was only five months old so I know something about war and loss anyway back to my mum when I was about 13 I was struggling with some naughty adolescent problem or other trying to decide what to do it doesn't matter what it was I can't remember anyway but my mum sat me down and said now listen you're going to be faced with many naughty problems during your life Roger and when you are here's my advice read read read find out everything you can about whatever it is look at it from all sides all angles listen to all opinions especially ones you don't agree you don't agree with research it thoroughly and when you've done that you will have done all the heavy lifting and the next bit is easy is it okay mum or what's the easy bit oh the easy bit is you just do the right thing so speaking of doing the right thing bones me to human rights we the people want universal human rights for all our brothers and sisters all over the world irrespective of their ethnicity religion or nationality to be clear that would include but would not be limited to the right to life and property under the law for instance well for instance for Ukrainians and for instance Palestinians let that sink in and obviously for all the rest of us as well one of the problems with wars is that in a war zone or anywhere where the people live under military occupation there is no recourse to the law there are no human rights today our brief is the possibility of peace in the Ukraine with special reference to the arming of the Kiev regime by third parties i'm running out of time so what do the voiceless millions have to say they say thank you for hearing us today we are many who do not share in the profits of the war industry we do not willingly raise our sons and daughters to provide fodder for your cannons in our opinion the only sensible course of action today is to call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine no ifs no buts no ands not one more Ukrainian or Russian life is to be spent not one they are all precious in our eyes so the time has come to speak truth to power you all remember the story of the emperor's new clothes of course you do well the leaders of your respective empire stand in one degree or another naked before us we have a message for them it is a message from all the refugees in all the camps a message from all the slums and favelas a message from all the homeless on all the cold streets from all the earthquakes and floods on earth it is also a message from all the people not quite starving but wondering how on earth to make the pittance they earn meet the cost of a roof over their head and food for their families my mother country england is thank god an empire no more but in that country now there is a new catchphrase eat or heat you can't do both it's a cry echoing around the whole of europe apparently the only thing the powers that be think we can all afford is perpetual war how crazy is that so from the four billion or so brothers and sisters in this voiceless majority who together with the millions in the international anti-war movement represent a huge constituency enough is enough we demand change president biden president putin president solenski us a nato rusher the EU all of you please change course now agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine today that of course will only be the starting point but everything extrapolates from that starting point imagine the collective global sigh of relief the outpouring of joy the international joining of voices in harmony singing and anthem to peace john lennon pumping the air with his fist from the grave we've finally been heard in the corridors of power the bullies in the schoolyard have agreed to stop playing nuclear chicken we're not all going to die in a nuclear holocaust after all at least not today the powers that be have been persuaded to drop the arms race and perpetual war as their accepted modus operandum we can stop squandering all our precious resources on war we can feed our children we can keep them warm we may even learn to cooperate with all our brothers and sisters and even save our beautiful planet home from destruction wouldn't that be nice your excellency's i'd thank you for your forbearance