We welcome you, Mr. President, and we wish the Algerian presidency every success. We also welcome the newly elected members of the Security Council.
We support the initiative of the delegation of Algeria to convene today’s meeting of the Council to discuss the deteriorating situation in the Gaza St…
We are grateful to Mr. Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, for his briefing.
The situation in the Middle East is deeply concerning. Regrettably, the unprecedented scale a…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2767 (2024), prepared by the British penholders, concerning the establishment of the new African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM). At the outset, we would like to thank the leadership and peacekeepers of the African Union Transit…
I simply wanted to ask, Madam President, whether you just read out a summary of the statement delivered by the United States representative at the beginning of this meeting.
We thank Mr. Leonardo Simão, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, for his briefing on the current situation in the region and his office’s activities over the past six months. We support the work of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel as …
We would like to thank Mrs. Vanessa Frazier and the experts of her delegation for coordinating the negotiations on resolution 2764 (2024). Thanks to their constructive approach, we managed to achieve Security Council unity on this important mandate — children and armed conflict — which in recent tim…
Given that this is your last meeting in the Security Council, Mr. President, allow me too to be very direct. However, we have always been direct with you — but as it turns out, you have only been direct today, as you have just announced.
If the United States had not supported and sponsored the 2014…
We are grateful to Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for her briefing. We also thank Mr. Saad Bahr Al-Din, the Sultan of Dar Masalit, for the information he provided. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of
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We thank Secretary-General Guterres and the briefers for their contributions to the discussion.
The Russian Federation attaches great importance to the development of advanced technologies designed to serve the good of humankind, including artificial intelligence (AI). At the same time, we are invi…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
We listened to Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo with astonishment. It was a very peculiar briefing from a senior official of the United Nations, based on press statements that the Unite…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his detailed briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We listened attentively to Ms. Shira Efron and Mr. Michael Levy.
We express our sympathy to Mr. Levy and his family, as well as t…
We wish to state for the record our principled disagreement with the United States presidency’s proposal to invite Ukraine to participate in this meeting, as well as, under rule 39, the representatives of the European Union and of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Conflict Armament Research.
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We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Mrs. Vanessa Frazier, Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and Permanent Representative of Malta, for their briefings. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mrs. Frazier and her team on su…
We would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, and the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Tom Fletcher. We also listened to the assessments by the Chair of the Syrian Negotiating Committee, Mr. Bader Jamous, and the representative of civil society, Ms.…
We are grateful to the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ms. Stephanie Koury, and to the Permanent Representative of Japan, Ambassador Yamazaki, for their briefings. We also listened attentively to the s…
We see today’s meeting as a desperate attempt by the sponsors and puppeteers of the Kyiv regime to keep the issue of Ukraine afloat in the Security Council at a time when it seems clear that most of the international community is losing interest in it. That is no surprise, considering that President…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Abarry for his briefing. We also listened very carefully to the statement made by Ms. Danielle Nlate.
Russia supports the work being done by the United Nations Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) with the aim of strengthening peace and security…
The Russian Federation today voted in favour of the resolution (resolution 2763 (2024)), which extended the mandate of the Monitoring Team on the sanctions regime against the Taliban under resolution 1988 (2011) for 14 months. We have been consistently supporting its activity and think that the repo…
We thank Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for her assessment of the current situation in the country. The Russian Federation has consistently supported the activities of UNAM…
We would like to thank Mr. Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, and Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings. We listened attentively to Mr. Hisham Al-Omeisy.
There is growing concern about the stagnation in the Yemeni sett…
