We would like to thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and Ms. Lisa Doughten, Director of the Financing and Outreach Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Syri…
We welcome your personal participation in the meeting, Mr. President. We thank the Secretary- General and the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mr. Omar Touray, for their briefings. We welcome the participation of countries of the region in the me…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2803 (2025), drafted by the United States. This is a draft that we simply could not support.
We appreciate the efforts of the United States and other mediators, which have made it possible to halt the active phase of the Israeli-Palestini…
We are very pleased to see you here today, Mr. President, presiding over our meeting. We would like to thank our today’s briefers for addressing a topic that can leave no one indifferent.
Everyone seems to agree that conflicts go hand in hand with hunger. Yet, the causation here appears to be obvio…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on the United Kingdom-drafted resolution (resolution 2801 (2025)) renewing the United Nations Security Council sanctions regime against Yemen for another 12 months and extending the mandate of the Panel of Experts supporting the Committee established pu…
We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Denmark, Christina Lassen, for her statement and for her joint chairing of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions, with the Permanent Representative of Pakistan, Asim Ahmad. We listened attentively to the briefing…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of extending the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).
The resolution adopted today (resolution 2800 (2025)) clearly evidences that the Security Council supports the Central A…
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Executive Director of UN-Women Sima Sami Bahous for the information they provided to us. We have listened to the civil society representative, Mr. Solomon Dersso. We welcome the participation of the representative of South Sudan in t…
We welcome you, Minister, to the President’s seat. We are grateful to our Sierra Leonean colleagues for choosing such a pertinent topic for our open debate. We thank today’s speakers for their briefings.
We have carefully reviewed the report (S/2025/670) prepared by the Secretary- General on small …
We have closely listened to the speakers and studied the concept note.
The importance of climate and environmental issues is beyond doubt, and they need to be addressed. But this should be done in formats designed specifically for this purpose, at a professional rather than a propaganda level. Russ…
We congratulate Sierra Leone as it assumes the presidency of the Security Council, and we wish it every success.
We would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Ms. Martha Pobee, and Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, Guang
The Security Council extended t…
We wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Bintou Keita, for her briefing.
We welcome the participation of representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in this meeting.
Almost one month ago, we met in this Chamber during an emergency session (se…
Russia abstained in the vote on the United States-Panama draft Security Council resolution (S/2025/609) concerning the transformation of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti into the Gang Suppression Force. The decisive factor for us was the views of the Haitian authorities and …
We thank Mr. Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory in the context of the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
Unfortunately, as the briefing made clear, we still have …
I would like to very briefly react to the statements made by my French colleague.
His explanations now sound even less convincing than before. Therefore, I would suggest that he not take the floor anymore. He is only digging himself into a deeper hole.
He has cited alleged facts that have no basis…
We are grateful to our Security Council colleagues who supported the draft resolution submitted by the Russian Federation and China (S/2025/539) on the technical extension of resolution 2231 (2015) for a period of six months, until April 2026, and for the immediate resumption of negotiations in the …
First of all, I would like to welcome Mr. Seyed Abbas Araghchi, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iran, who is present in this Chamber today.
Today, the Security Council is set to consider a draft resolution (S/2025/539), submitted by Russia and China, on the technical extension, for another six …
We are grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres and the briefers for their contributions to our discussion.
Today artificial intelligence (AI) is not merely a trendy topic that everyone is talking about; it is, above all, a cornerstone of successful technological development and economic and …
It is highly regrettable that Security Council members must waste their time today on a meeting requested by our European colleagues purely to host the latest New York tour of a certain well-known former actor. For this meeting, they have crowded into the Chamber as if it were the subway at rush hou…
We thank the Secretary- General for his report on the situation in the Gaza Strip. We welcome the participation of the ministers for foreign affairs of regional States and the relevant international organizations in today’s meeting.
The crisis in Gaza has inflicted civilian casualties on a scale un…
