China would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, the co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations (IGN) on Security Council reform, and the Permanent Representatives of Austria and Kuwait for their joint efforts in successfully accomplishing the tasks set for the current session of the IGN. W…
I thank Special Coordinator Wennesland and Ms. Baxter for their briefings.
Gaza has been subjected to more than 10 months of blockade, siege, bombing and attacks that have killed more than 40,000 people and displaced 1.9 million. Eighty per cent of homes in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed, and 8…
I thank Sierra Leone for the initiative of organizing this open debate on the theme of conflict prevention. I thank Foreign Minister Kabba for presiding over this meeting. I thank Assistant Secretary-General Spehar, Commissioner Adeoye and the civil society briefer for their presentations.
The inte…
I thank Deputy Special Representative Koury and the Chair of the Libya Sanctions Committee, established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), Ambassador Kazuyuki Yamazaki, for their briefings. I welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Libya at today’s meeting.
In connection with the r…
I thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Director Doughten for their briefings. I would like to make three points.
First, China welcomes the recent agreement between the Yemeni Government and the Houthis on financial and aviation issues. We hope that the parties will build on that example, base their ac…
I thank Special Representative Haysom, Director Wosornu and Major General Gituai for their briefings, and I welcome the presence of the representative of South Sudan at today’s meeting.
South Sudan is at a critical stage in implementing the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in…
I thank the delegation of Algeria for requesting this meeting. I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Director Doughten for their briefings.
Israel’s air strike on the Al-Tabaeen school in Gaza last week claimed approximately 100 innocent civilian lives. China strongly condemns that attack. Ci…
China welcomes you, Mr. President, as you preside over today’s meeting, and thanks Secretary-General Guterres, President Francis and Ms. Mbete for their briefings.
The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century, with the rise of the global South and the unstoppable trend to multipo…
I thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and Executive Director Gherman for their briefings. I would like to take this opportunity to commend both of them as well as the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) of the Securit…
China welcomes Ms. Alghali, Deputy Foreign Minister for Sierra Leone, in presiding over today’s meeting and thanks Executive Director Bahous and Assistant Secretary-General Pobee for their briefings. I have also listened carefully to the statement made by the representative of civil society.
Peace …
I thank Ms. Wosornu of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Mr. Omollo of the World Food Programme for their briefings. I welcome the presence of the representative of the Sudan at today’s meeting.
The conflict in the Sudan has dragged on for 16 months. The large number of ci…
Resolution 2746 (2024), just adopted by the Council, authorizes the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) to provide support to the Southern African Development Community Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (SAMIDRC) and encou…
At the outset, I wish to congratulate Sierra Leone on assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of August. I pledge China’s support for your work, Mr. President. I would also like to thank the Russian Federation for skilfully steering the work of the Council in July. I listened carefully …
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo for her briefing.
China firmly opposes and strongly condemns the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, which took place yesterday in Tehran, Iran’s capital. That act was a blatant attempt to sabotage peace efforts and wantonly trampled on th…
I welcome the presence of the Foreign Minister of the Central African Republic, Her Excellency Ms. Baipo Temon.
In recent years, the Central African Republic has registered steady progress in political and peace processes and achieved positive development in improving governance capacity, promoting…
I thank Deputy Commissioner-General Antonia Marie De Meo and Deputy Special Coordinator Muhannad Hadi for their briefings.
The conflict in Gaza has been going on for over nine months, causing an unprecedented, ever- worsening humanitarian catastrophe, with nearly 40,000 innocent civilian lives lost…
I thank Mr. Ebo and Ms. Kneissl for their briefings.
In the protracted crisis in Ukraine, civilians are the ones who suffer the most. The continued flow of weapons and munitions onto the battlefield will only further aggravate the crisis and deepen the cruelty, danger and unpredictability that war …
I thank Special Envoy Grundberg and Acting Under- Secretary-General Msuya for their briefings and welcome the presence of the representative of Yemen at today’s meeting.
Settling the situation in Yemen requires both political and diplomatic efforts. China hopes that all the parties concerned will s…
I would like to thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Director Rajasingham for their briefings. In view of the current situation, I would like to make three points.
First, against the overall background of the Gaza conflict, all the parties concerned must exercise maximum restraint and make sincere effo…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Major General Beary, Head of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hodeidah Agreement, for their briefings.
The recent events raising tensions are indicative of the accelerating spillover effects of the Gaza conflict, which is a source of deep concern…