You are now steering the deliberations in the Chamber, Madam President, and we can only expect that you will correctly formulate the question to be put to a vote. Doing so is your right, and we cannot take it away from you. We can only comment on the decisions that you are making, and we will commen…
In that case, according to the interpretation of Permanent Representative De Rivière, all of the letters about holding meetings are meaningless, as is the programme of work.
I would like to recall for your benefit, Madam President, that you confirmed the holding of this meeting, as did the Security Council Affairs Division.
That is not what I said. What I said is that the ruling to convene the meeting has been made. What we are calling into question is not the agenda for the meeting today, but rather the holding of the meeting itself. Therefore, the question that needs to be formulated is — Who is against the holding o…
We are extremely stunned and disappointed about the way the work was done on draft resolution S/2024/254 over the past 24 hours. It was a little more than an hour before the meeting when we learned that the word “permanent” in operative paragraph 1, relating to the ceasefire, was to be replaced by w…
We would like to express our principled disagreement with France’s attempt to challenge the convening of the Security Council meeting requested by Russia on the issue of the twenty-fifth anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia.
These days the entire world is remembering the victims of t…
We just now listened to hypocritical statements from a number of members of the Council, shedding crocodile tears over the Russian and Chinese vetoes. We explained the reasons why we did not allow the adoption of draft resolution S/2024/239. By no means is it because it was put forward by the United…
We wish to thank our briefers. We consider it very timely to gather in the Chamber again to discuss the issue of the continuing deliveries of Western arms and military equipment to Ukraine and the implications of that situation for the search for a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis. That is …
For six months now, the Security Council has been unable to adopt a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. All attempts were repeatedly thwarted by the opposition of the United States, which, in cold blood, used its veto in this Chamber on four occasions. In that time, we have heard a serie…
We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen and Ms. Msuya for their assessments of the military, political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
In addition to what we have heard, it is also clear to us that Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip are having an extremely negative impact on the situation in friendly Syria…
We thank Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Mr. Maurizio Martina, Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Mr. Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director of the United Na…
We thank the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea, in his capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan, for his briefing and his leadership of that subsidiary body.
The situation in the Sudan remains complex. The intensive hosti…
We thank Secretary-General António Guterres and the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Mr. Robert Floyd, for their briefings. We also listened very carefully to the Programme Director at the Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Ms. Gaukhar…
We thank the member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for preparing the resolution on “Measures to combat Islamophobia” and, in particular, the delegation of Pakistan for its efforts as facilitator of the negotiation process.
The Russian Federation is a multi-ethnic and multi-faith …
Before I begin my statement, I would like to put on record our principled disagreement with the approach adopted by the Japanese presidency in connection with the invitation extended to delegations to participate in this meeting in accordance with rules 37 and 39. There are six delegations, which is…
The Russian Federation voted today in favour of resolution 2727 (2024), extending the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for 12 months. We trust that the parameters established by resolution 2626 (2022) allow UNAMA to fully carry out its operations in Afghanistan…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Edem Wosornu, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in the country.
We are deeply…
We thank Under-Secretary-General of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs DiCarlo, the Permanent Representative of Brazil and Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, Mr. Sérgio França Danese, and other briefers for their substantive insights.
Conflict prevention is undoubtedly the main task of the Sec…
