We thank the Secretary-General for his briefing.
For seven months now, the Middle East has been engulfed in a violent conflict that has already claimed the lives of more than 34,000 civilians in Gaza. The escalation is spiralling daily, spreading to other countries of the region, over which the thr…
This day could have gone down in history as a day when, after three quarters of a century, the international community at last made the right choice on the path towards correcting the many years of historical injustice done to Palestine and the legitimate aspirations of its heroic people. Because it…
We regret that the Security Council once again today witnessed a completely shameless attempt by the United States to spread disinformation. The allegations that the Council was unable to call for the protection of humanitarian workers because Russia and China vetoed a flawed United States draft res…
We thank today’s briefers.
The Russian Federation has consistently attached high priority to regional security issues. We understand the objective interests of Malta, as well as of other States of the region, in discussing issues related to security in the Mediterranean. However, to be honest, it i…
We thank Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), for his briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories in the context of UNRWA’s activities. His assessments are extremely worrisome…
We thank Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), as well as the Permanent Representative of Japan, Mr. Yamazaki, for their briefings.
In the light of the continuing duality of power in Libya, we are…
We thank Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Edem Wosornu, for the briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. We have taken note of the brie…
Today, in this Chamber, a set of paratroopers from European Union countries have parachuted into this meeting so that they can parade in front of the cameras and be shown on their national news programmes in their respective countries. I ask again, what is the added value of the statements of the re…
We have listened carefully to the statement made by the Secretary-General. We also noted the Secretary-General’s immediate public reaction condemning Iran’s actions yesterday. It is regrettable that, unlike in today’s meeting, the Secretary-General did not propose to brief the Council on 2 April, wh…
For some reason, I do not see our colleagues from the European Union who usually sign up in droves for meetings on Ukraine that are convened at the request of our Western partners.
For at least 10 years, there has been an ongoing methodological influx of Western weapons to the Kyiv regime. At first…
We understand perfectly well that the only reason for convening today’s Council meeting is the desire of the Kyiv regime’s Western sponsors to keep the Ukrainian issue afloat in the Security Council, accompanied by the requisite optics. That requires a condemnation of the strikes carried out by the …
On 28 March (see S/PV.9591), the Russian Federation voted against draft resolution S/2024/255, proposed by the United States, on extending the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006), concerning sanctions on the Democratic Peop…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ruiz, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for the comprehensive briefing. We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia in this meeting.
Colombia remains largely a unique and inspiring example. Its Government not only …
The authors of the initiative enabling the General Assembly to discuss instances of the use of the right of the veto in the Security Council unquestionably envisaged it as a unique means of censure and to draw attention to alleged abuse by permanent members of the Security Council. Today, however, w…
Some minutes ago, we witnessed an attempt at cynical and unscrupulous manipulation on the part of our United States colleagues. In his statement, the representative of the United States emphasized that the call to protect humanitarian aid workers was contained in the United States draft resolution t…
We would like to thank Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of Coordination of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Ms. Janti Soeripto, civil society representative, for their briefings about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where, despite…
We listened carefully to the briefing by Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari, and we took note of the remarks by the Director from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Lisa Doughten.
We regret that today, owing to the open format of this meeting, pushed through by the info…
We thank the delegation of Malta for having organized today’s briefing. We thank Ms. Gamba de Potgieter, Mr. Chaiban and Ms. Niger-Thomas for their contributions to our discussion.
Access to humanitarian assistance is often the path to life in situations of armed conflict. In accordance with intern…
At the outset, we would like to acknowledge the efforts made by Zimbabwe as Chair of the Kimberley Process for 2023 and thus the sponsor of today’s draft resolution (A/78/L.54). By dint of circumstances outside of Harare’s control, this was not an easy tenure as Chair. However, Zimbabwe honourably a…
We listened attentively to today’s statements by the three Western permanent members of the Security Council and were once again struck by their cynicism and double standards. From their narrative today, one could hardly figure out why we have gathered here today.
The representative of France said …
