A few days ago, this building hosted a forum called the Summit of the Future. Russia was supportive of the Secretary-General’s idea to convene it, since the crisis of our Organization is deepening and something needs to be done about it. We devoted our efforts to preparing the Summit. However, we we…
We thank the Secretary-General for his assessment of the situation in the Middle East, with a focus on the unprecedented level of confrontation in the occupied Palestinian territory and the Lebanon-Israel border area.
This is a conflict that is also having consequences in other parts of the region,…
Allow me to apologize for my American colleague, Madam President, who is trying to spoil your debate. We do not normally exchange remarks in such a format. But of course, I cannot ignore what he said.
It is all the more surprising that those words were uttered by the representative of a State that …
Today’s debate is taking place at a very complex and pivotal moment for the whole world. Quite possibly, not since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has our planet been as close to global conflict as it is today. We have an unambiguous answer as to how we ended up in such a dangerous situation: by st…
We support the convening by the presidency of an emergency meeting in connection with the sudden escalation and developments in the friendly country of Lebanon and in the Lebanon-Israeli border region. We thank the Secretary-General, Mr. Guterres, for his briefing and for his assessment of the regio…
As for the eloquent British Foreign Minister who lectured us about imperialism — look who is talking. I recommend that he read our amendment to the Pact for the Future (General Assembly resolution 79/1), based on the Article 2, paragraph 7, of the Charter of the United Nations. Let him have a look a…
Before we begin this meeting, I wish to draw attention to a number of issues that are of fundamental importance for understanding procedural issues.
As is well known, from the beginning, the programme of work of the Slovenian presidency for the month of September included no high-level briefings on…
The modern world is facing unprecedented challenges that require collective solutions. The proposal of the Secretary-General to convene the Summit of the Future therefore found a broad response among the States Members of the world Organization and was supported by Russia.
We must not forget that i…
When resolution 76/307 was adopted almost two years ago, we all agreed unequivocally that the final document of our Summit — the Pact for the Future — should be “agreed in advance by consensus through intergovernmental negotiations” (resolution 76/307, para. 4). Unfortunately, that task was not fulf…
We support the initiative of the delegation of Algeria to convene today’s meeting in connection with the most recent and dangerous wave of escalation in the Middle East region. We have thoroughly examined the concerns of both Lebanon and Iran, which were set out in the letters circulated yesterday. …
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Geir Pedersen, and the Director of the Coordination Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Ramesh Rajasingham, for the overview of the political and humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic…
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the river Jordan. We also thank Ms. Helen Clark for her briefing.
Yesterday the Ge…
There is a practice in existence in the Council. The President cannot violate that practice, and neither can anyone else. Making a decision on changing the format must be reached by agreement, facilitated by the presidency, with all members of the Security Council. That was not done. The format of t…
We are pleased to welcome you, Madam Minister, in your capacity as President of the Security Council. We thank Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for her assessment of the current situatio…
We are grateful to the Assistant Secretary- General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. Ms. Martha Pobee, and the Acting Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Joyce Msuya, for their briefings.
Unfortunately, the armed conflict in the Sudan is becoming protracted in nature. The…
We thank the Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, Ms. Sigrid Kaag, and the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, Mr. Moreira da Silva, for their briefings on the situation in the Strip and their efforts to ensure humanitarian access to the terr…
As this is the first time that I take the floor, allow me to congratulate you, Mr. President, on behalf of the Russian Federation on your election as President.
The Russian Federation disassociates itself from the consensus on the decision to include agenda item 62 in the agenda of the General Asse…
The meetings we convene to discuss Western arms supplies to the Kyiv regime and the role of these weapons in undermining the efforts to find a peaceful
solution to the Ukrainian crisis allows everyone to obtain a clear understanding of a real situation there.
Since our most recent meeting (see S/P…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Joyce Msuya, for their briefings. We also listened carefully to Ms. Linda Al Obahi.
The situation in that country, as was affirmed by today’s spea…
Russia voted in favour of the United States sanctions resolution on Darfur, the Sudan (resolution 2750 (2024).
We agree with the approach taken by the sponsors that suggests that the resolution is aimed at a purely technical rollover of the sanctions regime. We understand that the situation in Suda…
