I would like to say a few words on a point of order.
We are in a crowded Chamber. And not only is the Chamber crowded, but the list of speakers is also full of non-members of the Security Council who call themselves Ministers for Foreign Affairs of European Union (EU) countries. With rare exception…
I think that for anyone who is capable of an independent, unbiased analysis of the situation, it is obvious that the topic under discussion today at the General Assembly has nothing to do with reality and serves solely to promote a political agenda. The reality is that there are no temporarily occup…
We would like to thank the briefers for their objective assessments of the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip, particularly Mr. Lockyear’s direct, frank and chilling testimony. What more is there to add? He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Today’s meeting is taking place against the backdr…
We thank Special Representative Valentine Rugwabiza for her briefing. We welcome the participation of the representative of the Central African Republic in this meeting.
We note with satisfaction that the situation in the Central African Republic continues to improve. With the support of the intern…
Today we bear witness to another dark chapter in the history of the Security Council. It was again written by the delegation of the United States, which continues to pursue the same goal — to cover for its closest Middle East ally and stall for time as much as possible so that it can complete its in…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her briefing. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
The deterioration of the security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic…
For the past five months, unprecedented violence has been unleashed in Gaza, the scale of which has surpassed any conflict faced by humankind since the Second World War. The civilian death toll has reached the shocking threshold of 30,000, and not all of the victims have been counted. During all tha…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Catriona Laing, and the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia and Head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia, Mr. Mohammed El-Amine Souef, for their briefings. We welcome the…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Voronkov and the Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED), Ms. Gherman, for their briefings on the activities of their United Nations counter-terrorism bodies. We highly value the efforts of the Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Coun…
We thank Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), and Ambassador Yamazaki Kazuyuki, Permanent Representative of Japan, for their briefings.
We have been following the development of events in o…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Edem Wosornu, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in the country. Of course, as we have …
It is our pleasure to welcome you, Sir, as the President of the Security Council. We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing, and we listened closely to the other briefers.
We have been provided with the opportunity today to discuss how it is that, in 2024, in some countries, the…
I do not intend to comment on the pseudo- legal interpretations of the decisions of the International Court of Justice provided by the representative of the Kyiv regime, who is sitting in the chair of the former Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic. I will just point out that it is very good that he …
We are once again struck by the duplicity of our Western colleagues and their awkward if unsurprising attempts to ignore inconvenient topics or facts even when they are obvious. Today the representative of the United Kingdom attempted to focus attention on the order on provisional measures issued by…
I think that what Mr. Sweeney just said is what we should have heard from the representative of the Secretariat who briefed us today, instead of empty speeches stuffed with hackneyed clichés.
We took the initiative of convening today’s meeting in order to remind everyone present of the consequences…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Caroline Ziadeh for her briefing on the situation in Kosovo and the information she provided and welcome the participation of President Aleksandar Vučić of Serbia in today’s meeting. We listened to the views of Mr. Kurti. We are grateful to th…
Today we heard cynical statements that we would not be sitting here if Russia had not started this war. No, if we had not started our special military operation, tragedies such as the one in Lysychansk would continue to happen every day, and that is exactly what was happening practically every day f…
We are grateful to Ms. Jeanine Hennis- Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, for her briefing on the situation in Iraq in the context of the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
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We convened an urgent meeting of the Security Council in connection with the missile attack carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Lysychansk on Saturday, 3 February. As a result, the two-story building of a café and bakery was almost completely destroyed, and the ceilings between the floors …
We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing. We heard quite a lot of hubris from her, but we did not hear the main thing from her, of course — namely, a condemnation of the violation of international law by the United States and the United Kingdom.
We would lik…
