Panaji: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday said borders should not be changed by “war or force”, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine poses the biggest threat to international peace today as “it is about changing borders”. Inviolability of national borders is the basis for peace, he said, interacting with the students of Birla Institute of Technology And Science (BITS) Pilani at Vasco during a visit to Goa during which he also visited the German Naval ship FGS Baden-Wurttemberg docked at Mormugao Port. The chancellor, on a three-day visit to India, referred to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war while replying to a question. “Coming back to the crisis and conflicts that we are seeing, the biggest threat that is today happening to international security and peace is the war for aggression that Russia started against Ukraine.
“This is because of one single aspect of this attack,” he said, adding, “It is about changing borders. And the agreement that we had in the United Nations and in many other regional agreements on peace and security, for instance also for Europe, is that never borders should be changed by war and force, again.” “This is the basis for peace, if you are a small country,” Scholz said. The German Chancellor recalled that a Kenyan ambassador to the United Nations once said in the Security Council that the borders of African countries were drawn by officials of colonial powers, and `if we would all try to find the right border and are going to war, we will have hundred years of war in Africa’.
