The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2703 (2023), prepared by the United States on the extension of the mandate the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) because not a single one of our principled and properly substantiated comments, including …
We would like to thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Ms. Wosornu for presenting their overview of the political and humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
The situation in Syria remains extremely tense, including because of the unprecedented escalation of
the Palestinian-Israeli con…
We have the utmost respect for your proposal, Mr. President. It goes without saying that we will have a debate on it. Nonetheless, we believe it is important to vote on draft resolution A/78/L.6 first. The draft resolution is before us and its text has been submitted for the consideration of the Gen…
We thank Mr. Adedeji Ebo, Deputy to the High Representative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, for his report. Special thanks go to the representative of American civil society, Mr. Randy Credico, who shared not only the questions that many Americans have for their leadership in t…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Valentine Rugwabiza, for her
briefing. We welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Francophonie and Central Africans Abroad of the Central African Republic, Ms. Sylvie Valérie Baipo Temon, to this meeting.
At the outset, we would l…
I would like to say a few words in response to what has just been said by the Permanent Representative of Israel. The Permanent Representative of Israel posed a rhetorical question: what would Moscow do if there were terrorist attacks on the Russian Federation? The response to that question is very …
We regret the fact that the Security Council has once again failed to take the opportunity to respond to the unprecedented crisis in the Middle East.
I have already provided a detailed account of the reasons why the draft resolution submitted by the United States (S/2023/792) is absolutely unaccept…
We thank Secretary-General António Guterres, Executive Director of UN-Women Ms. Sima Sami Bahous, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Ms. Spoljaric Egger, Director General of Rio Branco Institute Ms. Glivânia Maria de Oliveira
and the civil society briefer for their briefings …
For two weeks now, the Security Council has been unable to send a collective signal for de-escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone. That is extremely lamentable. The bloodshed continues, with thousands of civilians killed or wounded and more than 1.5 million people internally displaced. …
We thank the Secretary-General, as well as the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Tor Wennesland and Ms. Lynn Hastings, for their substantive briefings on the situation in the Middle East region.
We believe it is important to note that in these difficult times, the Secretary…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Caroline Ziadeh, for her briefing on the situation in the province and for the insights she provided. We welcome the participation of Prime Minister Ana Brnabić of Serbia. We have heard the views of Ms. Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu. …
We welcome your participation, Mr. Minister, at today’s meeting. We would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General María Isabel
Salvador for her briefing on the situation in the country and her work in the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH). We listened closely t…
We would like to thank Mr. Khaled Khiari; Ms. Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile; Mr. Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa; and Ms. Josefina Echavarría Álvarez for their briefings. We are grateful to Brazil for taking the initiative to discuss such an exceptionally important topic…
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Catriona Laing and the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and Head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), Mr. Mohamed El-Amine Souef, for their briefings. We welcome to toda…
We have just witnessed yet another demonstration of the hypocrisy and double standards of our American colleagues. While not opposing in principle the idea of adopting a humanitarian resolution in the Security Council, they were not genuinely interested in it and simply hoped to put enough pressure …
The voting on the amendment contained in document S/2023/776, to be inserted before operative
paragraph 1 of draft resolution S/2023/773, on an immediate ceasefire, and on the amendment contained in S/2023/775, to be inserted after operative paragraph 2 of draft resolution S/2023/773, on a condemna…
As a co-founder of the tribunals created after the Second World War to condemn the most heinous crimes in the history of humankind, our country was at the origins of international criminal justice. We have always proceeded from the fact that the objective of international criminal justice is not onl…
Together with the delegations of the United Arab Emirates and China, we initiated today’s emergency Security Council meeting in view of the tragic events in the Gaza Strip. Yesterday the Al Ahli Hospital in central Gaza City was destroyed as a result of air strikes. We are deeply shocked by what hap…
During consultations on 16 October, many Security Council members tried to dissuade us from calling for a vote on our depoliticized humanitarian draft resolution. We were asked to wait 24 hours so that members could submit a “consensus” draft resolution. We did not agree with that. And we were right…
