We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his substantive briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. We also listened to the remarks by Ms. Tania Hary.
The unprecedented escalation of violence in the Arab-Israeli conflict zon…
We express our gratitude to today’s briefers.
Food insecurity is a serious problem for the international community. Its causes are multifaceted and began long before the current situation. Not only armed conflicts, but also unilateral sanctions imposed by Western countries play an important role in…
The statement made by the representative of France is yet more proof of what I said in my earlier statement. It is well known that the international community to which our Western colleagues refer includes only themselves, and that they are never to blame for anything. Indeed, all they do is bring “…
We thank Mr. Bankole Adeoye, African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Mr. Workneh Gebeyehu, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, and Mr. Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for their briefings. We also welcom…
I, too, thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert for her detailed briefing on the situation in the Republic of Iraq. We also listened very closely to Ms. Khanim Latif,
and we welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Iraq in today’s meeting…
Western countries insist that they are not parties to the conflict but are only helping Ukraine to defend itself. However, the reality is the polar opposite. A proxy war is being waged with Russia in Ukraine. Since the last Council meeting in February on the subject of Western arms deliveries to Ukr…
We are grateful to our briefers today.
The current situation in Yemen is grounds for cautious optimism. We note the progress on resolving the years-long military and political crisis in Yemen achieved by the Yemeni parties with support from the United Nations and regional forces.
On the military f…
We commend Bangladesh for its facilitation of the negotiations process. Russia joined the consensus on resolution 77/287.
The sixteenth preambular paragraph retains a reference to the outcome document of the review conference on the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population …
We thank our Turkmen colleagues for their initiative in convening today’s meeting of the General Assembly on such an important topic. Russia is a long- standing and reliable partner of the Central Asian States. For many years, we have supported our neighbours in their desire to follow the path of pr…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee and the Executive Secretary of the
Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel), Mr. Eric Tiaré, for their briefings. We also listened very carefully to Ms. Aïssatou Diouf.
Terrorism is one of the most pressing pan-African issues. The most complex and s…
We would like to begin our statement by noting the hypocrisy underlying today’s meeting of the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine. There were no meetings held on that topic for the entire month of April, and the delegations of France and Ecuador, as well as other Western deleg…
The Security Council is meeting today to hear yet another briefing by the so-called Prosecutor of the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC). This body has, once again, shown its disrespect for the Council by submitting empty pro forma documents under the guise of investigation reports. These …
We would like to make a statement regarding our reservation about the presence in the Security Council Chamber of the so-called Prosecutor of the so-called International Criminal Court. We do not understand why he is being invited to the Security Council. The International Criminal Court has become …
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Her Excellency Mrs. Željka Cvijanović, Chair of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We note with deep concern that the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina has entered a qualitatively new and dangerous phase. The Western community has become d…
We would like to put on record our disagreement with the presence of Mr. Christian Schmidt at this meeting in his capacity as so-called High Representative. The Security Council did not approve him for that position. We want to stress that the question of Bosnia and Herzegovina is on the Council’s a…
At the outset, we would like to wish everyone in the Chamber a happy 9 May, which is Victory Day. On this momentous occasion, we pay our profound respects and extend our deepest recognition to all whose unparalleled feats on the battlefield and selfless labour on the home front enabled the defeat of…
As in previous meetings to discuss the Syrian chemical dossier in past reporting periods, we are compelled to note that there has been no significant progress on the ground that would require the attention of the Security Council. We are meeting today only to enable a number of Western delegations t…
We are pleased to see you, Mr. Councillor, in the President’s chair. We also welcome to today’s meeting Mr. Bujar Osmani, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia.
I think it will come as no surprise …
We welcome you to today’s meeting, Mr. President, and congratulate Switzerland on its leadership of the Security Council. A country’s maiden presidency of the Council is indeed a historic event, and we wish Switzerland every success. We thank Mr. Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Hum…
The Russian Federation cannot support the draft resolution contained in document А/77/L.65, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe”, in its present form for the following reason.
As members are aware, the draft resolution, like many other resolutions on cooperati…
