Hope initiative Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen, It is a strange paradox that this meeting is called the Minorities Forum, where at the same time it gives the opportunity to representatives of governments and countries that persecute minorities and deny their identity the right to object the speeches of representatives of minorities and suppress their voices infront of the representatives of the United Nations, perhaps this is one of the negative aspects that The United Nations Declaration and international law have made, along with many other gaps and contradictions, such as the principle of the sovereignty of states and their right to protect and territorial integrity, which practically restricts another basic principle in international law, which is the principle of the right to self-determination of peoples. Likewise, these states are justifiying committing the crimes and aggressions stipulated in the Rome Statute under the pretext of invoking the text of Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations about exercising their right to defend their national security, all that in a very clear exploitation to continue in the persecution of minorities and the denial of their national and ethnic identities. Mr. President, How can we celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Minorities, when its content is not respected, but worse than that, we see with our own eyes that minorities are subjected to systematic cleansing and genocide campaigns in more than one part of the world. In Syria, for example, after decades of persecution of the Kurdish people, and denying their national identity, and depriving them of most basic legitimate rights, as the right of learning in their mother tongue, the Turkish occupation, accompanied by the Syrian jihadist factions, came in 2018 as a result of its aggression and occupation of the Kurdish regions in Syria such as the cities of