We would like to thank Mr. Martin Griffiths for his objective assessment of the catastrophic situation
in the Gaza Strip. The Russian Federation supported Algeria’s initiative to convene today’s extraordinary meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone.…
The position of the Russian Federation regarding the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC) is well known and remains unchanged. The hollow, semi-annual briefings of the ICC to the Security Council have become an anachronism, given that the Security Council has truly important matters on its a…
I was not going to comment on the Ukrainian statement, which turned out to be totally paranoid and delusional, as usual. Let me just say that my colleague seems to have been indoctrinated to continue lying and covering up for the Kyiv regime. The lists were published and brought to the notice of the…
We welcome the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who are participating in today’s meeting, as well as the Permanent Representatives of Saint Lucia and Kenya. We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. María Isabel Salvador, and the Executive Di…
In order to conclude our procedural exchange with you, Mr. President, let me just briefly highlight that the “work” that you mentioned, despite its significance, plays no role within the Security Council. It is not part of the Charter of the United Nations or of the Security Council’s rules of proce…
I want to be clear in what I am saying so that the French delegation has no illusions, I will try to voice my statement in French, their native language.
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We would like to express our indignation with regard to the biased position of the French presidency on the convening of the e…
Today’s meeting on the situation in the Middle East, first and foremost the Palestinian question, and our discussion come at a truly dramatic moment. Not only major political considerations but also universal human morality demand that we take urgent action to bring about a ceasefire and end the hum…
Today we are once again discussing the situation in Ukraine in the context of the supplies of weapons and mercenaries that it continues to receive from the West, which we recently confirmed when we began to take measures to eliminate French mercenaries near Kharkhiv. We have just heard a briefing wi…
We listened with concern to the Secretariat’s presentation on the holding of a high-level plenary meeting on sea level rise, within existing resources.
We stress the fact that in order to entirely fulfil its mandate, the Secretariat requires the necessary financial resources to be available. If we …
We are not surprised by the downright weak arguments which were put forward by the United States and the United Kingdom today in an attempt to justify their aggression. After all, they simply do not have any other arguments, nor could there be any. Let me underscore that there is no legal basis for …
We thank Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths and Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ilze Brands Kehris for their objective assessments of the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip.
The Russian Federation supported Algeria’s initiative to convene today’s extraordinary meeting of th…
We thank Mr. Khaled Khiari for his briefing. To be honest, given the blatant armed aggression against a sovereign country, we would have liked to have seen the Secretary-General as a briefer today.
The main task of the United Nations, as enshrined in its Charter, is to prevent threats to peace and …
We thank Special Representative Simão for his briefing on the current state of affairs in the region and the activities of his Office in the past year. We also closely followed Ms. Théroux-Bénoni’s remarks.
The situation in the Sahelo-Saharan region is not improving. First of all, that is because o…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ruiz Massieu, and the civil society briefer, Ms. Yolanda Perea Mosquera, for their presentations. We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Leyva Durán, in this meeting.
After seven year…
We are grateful to those delegations that voted in favour of our proposed amendments to address the politicized nature of resolution 2722 (2024). We regret that the rest of the Security Council did not take that step, preferring to turn a blind eye to the dangerous flaws in the text. We could not su…
For the record, we would like to state our principled rejection of the approach adopted by the
French presidency despite our objections, including the invitation to this meeting of delegations under rule 37 and rule 39. Their number, including Ukraine, is six: the European Union (EU), Italy, Poland…
Our country attaches the utmost importance to the question of safe international navigation. In that regard, we cannot be unconcerned about the current situation in the Red Sea, given that many countries are heavily dependent on the delivery of essential goods through Red Sea routes.
We have repeat…
Today’s meeting of the General Assembly is being held in connection with yet another use by the United States of the veto right in the Security Council, to block calls for an end to violence in the Gaza Strip. Given that it has been more than three weeks since then, I would like to recall how the Co…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of January and expressing hopes that everything will go successfully. Secondly, I would like to thank the Permanent Representative of Ecuador and his team for his excellent presidency …
I just wanted to make a few comments. Many Council members are fond of saying, “do not let Russia mislead or distract us”. That is a notion familiar to us when the subject is an inconvenient one for the Council members who say such things. We also constantly hear that it is not Ukraine that started …
