I would like invite the General Secretary of the World Congress, the honourable Luděk Mareš, and also all interested observers, to reflect on the
words recently spoken in the Security Council by Ada von Hertz, the Dorvish Ambassador to the World Congress.
Along with many, many others in Dorvik and elsewhere, I find it deeply unfortunate that the Dorvish Ambassador, who is meant to steer clear from Dorvish partisan politics, used the Security Council as a platform from which to severely misrepresent and malign the Dorvish Communist Party, and also to publicly invite the governments of the world to explicitly intervene in Dorvik's election by urging the Dorvish people not to vote for the left.
These comments came at a sensitive moment in Dorvik, right in the middle of our election campaign. Regrettably, some governments did take up the invitation to intervene on behalf of the right-wing parties in Dorvik,
including the government of Valruzia.
We protest that this behaviour was highly inappropriate, and that in particular, the Dorvish Ambassador used the Security Council in a purely opportunistic and politically-motivated way, and thus failed to treat that august body with the dignity and seriousness it deserves. To hold a position on the Security Council is a real privilege and also a great responsibility. As a Dorvish citizen, I am ashamed that the person representing Dorvik at the Security Council has used that position not to advance the interests of the millions of poor and suffering all over Terra, but in order to pursue selfish objectives related purely to narrow domestic politics.
May I add, finally, that a lot of misconceptions abound about communists in general, and the Dorvish Communist Party in particular. So please let me affirm that we are fully committed to democracy and civil liberties, and we are also fundamentally committed to world peace and to the principles of the World Congress. I am confident that any review of our recent history and our voting record in the Dorvish Staatsrat will demonstrate this to anybody who is concerned. Please allow me to assure you: the World Congress and the peoples of Terra have nothing to fear from the prospect of a government of the left coming to power in Dorvik.