We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and the Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Mr. Martin Griffiths, whom we wish we did not have to bid farewell to, for their briefings on the current political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
With the continuing escalatio…
We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Tor Wennesland, for his overview of the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in which Israel’s brutal military operation, which has entered its eighth month, has led to the deaths of more than 36,500 Palestinian civili…
We would like to thank Mozambique for convening today’s debate. We also thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs; Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN-Women; Mr. Felipe Paullier Olivera, Assistant Secretary-General for Youth Affairs; and Ms. Si…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2730 (2024), submitted by Switzerland, on the protection of humanitarian personnel.
The Russian Federation has embraced a consistent position on all matters related to ensuring the safety and security of humanitarian workers and United Na…
Before I make my explanation of vote, I would like to raise one issue. Consider it a point of order, and I count that you, Mr. President, will deduct the time allotted to me for my explanation of vote from the remarks I will make now.
Before the voting, you, Mr. President, gave the floor to the “di…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s important meeting. We also thank the African Union Commissioner and the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission for their briefings.
Given its geopolitical importance and significant socioeconomic and demographic potential, today Africa clearly has a…
We thank the presidency of Mozambique for convening today’s open debate. We listened with interest to the statements by the briefers.
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of resolution 1265 (1999), which placed the protection of civilians at the centre of the Security Council’s attention. W…
I do not want to prolong our discussion, but I do want to point to the reliability of the information just cited by the representative of the Kyiv regime. According to recent surveys of the Ukrainian population, only 17 per cent of the people of Ukraine believe in the legitimacy of their President. …
On the whole, we are pleased with the results of the voting, which, beyond the numbers, demonstrated a watershed between those who seek the peaceful exploration of outer space and those who seek its militarization. Western countries are now essentially isolated in the Council, and that is symptomati…
We thank Tor Wennesland and Edem Wosornu for their survey of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory. We are also grateful to the delegations of Algeria and Slovenia for convening this meeting on the situation in the Gaza Strip, where the operation by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) — w…
At the outset, in my national capacity I would like to express my sincere condolences to the people and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran with regard to the enormous tragedy that befell that country — a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign M…
While listening to the zealous statement of the United States representative, we were not certain which draft resolution he was speaking about. Did he read the draft resolution (S/2024/383) that was submitted?
It is not the first time that the United States has accused Russia of attempting to place…
We all remember how, on 24 April here in the Chamber (see S/PV.9616), the United States, Japan and their allies were ultimately unable to explain the added value behind their draft resolution (S/2024/302) on the non-placement of weapons of mass destruction in outer space, which reaffirmed the obliga…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her briefing on the situation in Iraq in the context of the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). As this is her last briefing on Iraq at the Security Council, we would l…
Today we will hear a statement by the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Mr. Denis Bećirović. However, we should consider the statement in the context of the letter submitted by the Serbian member of the Presidency, Ms. Željka Cvijanović, and circulated among Security Council mem…
The position of the Russian Federation — that the politicized activities of the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC) are unacceptable — remains unchanged. Accordingly, we see no point to having a representative of the puppet institution, which openly serves the interests of Western States, …
In what now seems to be becoming a tradition, our Western colleagues gather us all here once a month for meetings on Ukraine, the sole purpose of which is to demonstrate the steadfast support of the collective West for the Zelenskyy regime, which is on the verge of complete collapse. These meetings …
We thank Mr. Hans Grundberg and Mr. Martin Griffiths for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen.
It pains us that the current events in the Middle East, in which forces from outside the region are involved in a far from constructive way, are hampering the process of Ye…
We thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, and the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, Ms. Hanna Serwaa Tetteh, for their briefings. We welcome the presence at this meeting of the Permanent Representatives of South Sudan and the Sud…
The General Assembly’s meetings convened in accordance with its resolution 76/262 on the consideration of instances of the use of the veto power in the Security Council can be divided into two types. One situation is when the use of the veto is conditioned by the acceptability or non-acceptability o…
