We are grateful to the Chinese presidency for holding today’s meeting. We highly appreciate Beijing’s contribution to multilateral efforts to resolve the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone.
For more than two months, a conflict of biblical proportions has been raging in the Middle Ea…
We are grateful to Kuwait for presenting draft resolution A/78/L.12, on Duchenne muscular dystrophy disease. We are also grateful to the Secretariat for preparing the Secretary-General’s report (A/78/88) on progress and remaining challenges in implementing the goals of combating tuberculosis in the …
We thank the Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Ms. Rochdi, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Wosornu, for their briefings.
On the political track, we support the resumption of the work of the Constituti…
We listened closely to the briefing by Assistant Secretary-General Khiari, and we also welcome the participation in the meeting of the permanent representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.
Russia is concerned about the rapid development of a new cycle of …
We fully support the convening of this emergency Security Council meeting on the situation in the Gaza Strip, with a focus on the protection of civilians, especially women and children. We thank the Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Sima Sami Bahous, the Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Catherine…
I have taken the floor in order to respond to sev eral delegations that spoke today.
Today the representative of Ukraine spoke once again. She put forward her unjustified accusations against the Russian armed forces, and I would like to express my regret that this resolution, which we have always …
The historic mission and one of the fundamen tal values of sport lies in its unifying and reconciling role. Sport is therefore a way to bring people further to gether and to develop friendship, tolerance and fairness.
The traditional role of the Olympic Games is to unite nations and peoples, redu…
We would like to sincerely thank Albania and the United States for convening this meeting — I say so without any irony whatsoever. Frankly, we ourselves were considering convening a meeting of the Security Council on Ukraine today, 21 November, because it is a symbolic day for the ongoing Ukrainian …
We listened with great attention to the Secretary-General’s statement and the briefings by the President of the New Development Bank, Dilma Rousseff, and Mr. Jeffrey Sachs.
We thank the Chinese presidency for its initiative to discuss in the Security Council the nexus between peace and development.…
I would like to thank the representative of Ukraine for her direct and indirect confirmation of our premise that the Kyiv regime is fighting specifically against canonical orthodoxy in Ukraine. We also heard a vivid example of the promotion of hate speech in this Chamber.
I want to thank all the members of the Security Council who have called for respect for freedom of speech in Ukraine. I would like to say to our Western colleagues — who have no interest in facts — that now that they have read out their standard and clichéd statements saying that Ukraine can do what…
We thank the Permanent Representative of Kuwait, Mr. Tareq Albanai, and the Permanent Representative of Austria, Mr. Alexander Marschik, for their able leadership of the negotiation process during the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly. We trust that the co-facilitators will continue th…
Today, once again, we convened a meeting of the Security Council to draw the attention of the international community to the cynical persecution of the canonical orthodoxy in Ukraine, which has been unfolding before our very eyes. We are grateful for the participation in today’s meeting of the Assis…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee for her briefing. We welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of the Sudan, Mr. Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed, at this meeting.
We continue to follow with concern the development of the armed conflict in the Sudan. The situatio…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on the resolution submitted by Malta (resolution 2712 (2023)). We could not fail to respond to the calls, including from countries in the region, for the Security Council to adopt at least some kind of humanitarian product. That is the only reason why w…
I wish to take this opportunity to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing the traditional briefing of the Chairs of the three Security Council Committees with
competence in the area of counter-terrorism. We would also like to thank the Chairs of the three Committees for the reports presented toda…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2709 (2023), drafted by France, on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). Despite a number of positive changes — first and foremost t…
Before the members of the Security Council move to vote on the draft resolution submitted by Malta (S/2023/876), we would like to propose an oral amendment to the operative part of the draft resolution. We propose that we add a new paragraph, 3 bis, as follows:
(spoke in English)
“Further calls fo…
We are grateful to the briefers for the information provided. Through the Police Commissioners present, we thank all police peacekeepers for their conscientious fulfilment of their mandated duties in the maintenance of peace and security in complex conflict situations.
Police components occupy a sp…
We welcome the convening of today’s General Assembly meeting on the implementation of United Nations resolutions and the revitalization of the work of the Assembly. We would like to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Romania and Saint Lucia on their appointment as co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc …
