The Russian Federation voted today in favour of the resolution extending the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) by three months (resolution 2818 (2026)). We welcome the efforts undertaken by the Chinese penholders of the Afghan dossier to find compromise solution…
We are deeply disappointed by the fact that the Security Council today failed to adopt such a highly demanded draft resolution (S/2026/159), which focused on the need to de-escalate in the Middle East and to return to looking for negotiated solutions.
We would like to express our appreciation to th…
We have already pointed out today the non-constructive nature of the resolution that has just been adopted (resolution 2817 (2026)), which condemned Iran’s strikes targeting the territories of the countries in the region. The resolution is one-sided, and the additional explanations provided by the r…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on the resolution submitted by Bahrain (resolution 2817 (2026)) because it is extremely unbalanced and does not serve the purpose of maintaining international peace and security.
We would like to make it clear from the outset that we do understand and …
The topic chosen by the presidency for today’s meeting is one of the most pressing issues on the international agenda. The desire for enrichment at the expense of the resources of other countries has posed the threat of conflicts and wars for centuries, and humanity has not managed to cure itself of…
First of all, we would like to thank the United Kingdom for its presidency in February and wish the American presidency every success in March. Madam First Lady, we welcome your personal participation in today’s meeting. We appreciate the convening of this event on the important topic of children, t…
We thank the Secretary- General for his briefing.
First of all, we would like to express our strong objection to the fact that today’s meeting is being held under the agenda item “The situation in the Middle East”. We wish to recall that Russia and China requested that it be held under the item “Th…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Valentine Rugwabiza for her briefing. We are grateful to the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission and Permanent Representative of Morocco, Mr. Omar Hilale, for his insightful remarks. We welcome the participation of the Permanent Representati…
Formally speaking, I am a Ukrainian. I have a strange last name, which, as Slavs know, is quite rare even in Ukraine. It comes from Zaporizhzhia Cossacks. My father is a true Ukrainian, just as my mother, who is descended from the Cossacks. They are Ukrainians to a greater extent than Ms. Betsa and …
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Director of the Crisis Response Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Edem Wosornu for their reports. We listened carefully to the civil society representative, Ms. Hala Al-Karib. Her statement served as a …
We thank Under-Secretary General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing on the situation in the Middle East. We listened attentively to the assessments shared by civil society representatives. We welcome the participation in today's briefing of a number of delegations at the ministerial level. We congrat…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Hanna Tetteh, and Ahmed Albibas, for their briefings. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations, Mr. Ta…
We are grateful to Mr. Claudio Cordone, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and to Ms. Lisa Doughten, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Director of Financing and Outreach, for their comprehensive reports on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. We list…
We thank Mr. Hans Grundberg and Ms. Lisa Doughten for their briefings.
The situation in Yemen remains tense. The consequences of the escalation observed in the southern provinces in December have not yet been resolved. This state of affairs has adversely affected the security situation and is compl…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2816 (2026), which extends the mandate of the Monitoring Team of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) for a period of 12 months. We support its operations and note the assistance provided to experts in the work of the 1988 …
We are grateful to the Under-Secretary General for Peace Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the Interim Chairperson of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, Mr. George Owinow, and civil society representative Edmund Yakani for their briefings. We welcome the participation o…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Director of the United Nations Police Division Mr. Shahkar, Police Commissioner of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Meinolf Schlotmann and Police Commissioner of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Demo…
We congratulate the United Kingdom on assuming the presidency of the Council in the month of February, and we wish to thank Somalia for its presidency in January.
Let me begin by expressing my sincere condolences to the Government and people of Pakistan in connection with the recent terrorist attac…
We would like to thank Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on the situation in the region.
The recent developments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone give us grounds for cautious optimism and offer hope for a definitive transition aw…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on the United Kingdom-drafted resolution 2813 (2026), on extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) for a final two-month period prior to the start of the process of its liquidation. The only reason we …
