We appreciate your organization of today’s meeting,
Mr. President. The briefings by Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and by the representatives of Bangladesh and Canada on behalf of the troop-contributing countries (TCCs), were helpful.
We believe firml…
The Russian delegation supported the adoption of the resolution 2381 (2017), expanding the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia. The mission will now provide assistance in monitoring compliance with the temporary ceasefire agreement between the Government of Colombia and th…
First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to express my delegation’s profound and sincere condolences to the people of the United States in the aftermath of the monstrous tragedy that recently occurred in Las Vegas.
We express our appreciation to the Secretary- General for his informative…
We will try to be brief. We would have preferred not to respond to the statement made by the representative of the Ukrainian delegation. Nevertheless, we believe that we need to respond to the attacks that were addressed to us in a statement.
We should bear in mind that, since the beginning of the …
Our delegation welcomes the adoption by consensus of the political declaration on the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (resolution 72/1).
We align ourselves with the joint statement made on behalf of the Group of Friends United against Huma…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his briefing on the situation in Rakhine state in Myanmar. We share his concern about the serious worsening of the situation in the region, which was provoked first and foremost by fighters of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army. We resolutely condemn thei…
We would first like to thank you, Mr. President, and the Ethiopian delegation for including today’s meeting in the Council’s September programme of work and for your efforts in preparing for it.
Exactly 16 years ago, on 28 September 2001, the Security Council adopted a core counter-terrorism resolu…
I do not intend to engage in polemics, but we need to get to the bottom of the statistics with regard to the number of people in Syria who have access to humanitarian assistance and people who have received assistance from the United Nations. I think that this is one of the challenges that the new U…
The Russian delegation would like to thank Ms. Fang Liu, Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and Mr. Amr Aboulatta, Chai of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), for their assessments and their informative contributions to our discussion.
Our delegation playe…
We too wish to speak in this open meeting, and not just to share our opinion on the current situation in Syria with the members of the Security Council.
We thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his briefing. We wish Mr. Lowcock every success on the Syrian humanitarian track. We trust that he will addres…
We thank Mr. David Shearer, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, as well as Mr. Festus Mogae, Chair of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, for their substantive briefings.
We believe that it will be possible to stabilize the situation in South Sudan only if there is a lastin…
I would like to thank Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for his analysis of the evolving circumstances in Afghanistan. And, of course, we listened carefully to the statement by Mr. Salahu…
In December of last year, the General Assembly adopted resolution 71/190, on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, which clearly stipulated the inadmissibility of interference in the internal affairs of States and of coups d’état as a method of transferring power, and the …
I will begin by stating frankly that we were surprised by the inclusion of the issue of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the context of country-specific topics. There are other, more inclusive, formats for that. In our view, the most appropriate format for Security Counc…
We believe firmly that the crimes of the terrorists of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) should not go unpunished, regardless of where they are committed. We welcome the successes of the Iraqi armed forces in their fight against ISIL and in restoring their country’s sovereignty. We are…
At the outset, I would like to express our condolences to the Government and the people of Mexico for the destruction and loss of human life caused by the terrible earthquakes.
I would also like to thank the Secretary-General, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and the Chairperson of …
Needless to say, Mr. President, we are delighted to be able to join previous speakers in congratulating you and wishing you every success in your work.
My delegation has consistently advocated for strengthening States’ capacity to protect their peoples from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing an…
The Russian delegation supported the adoption of resolution 2377 (2017), endorsing the size and mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, which will begin its work on 26 September. We consider it important that the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia …
We thank the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Mr. Feltman, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Lake Chad Basin region.
Terrorism remains the main threat facing the entire world, and the African continent in particular. The increased activity of militants of the terr…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haile Menkerios, for his
detailed briefing. We share the views we have heard as to the increased level of interaction between the United Nations and the African Union in the area of ensuring peace and security in Africa.
In recent y…
