I think that it would not be an exaggeration to say that, since our most recent meeting on the topic of deliveries of Western weapons to Ukraine in December (see S/PV.9216), the demand for a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis among States Members of the United Nations, and, indeed, the intern…
I would like to once again state that, despite Mr. Arias’ detailed explanations in the course of this meeting today, he has continued to fail to provide a substantive answer to any of the questions asked not just by us, but also by the community of experts who are outraged by the unprecedented viola…
First of all, we would like to start by expressing our condolences to the families of the victims affected by the horrific earthquakes yesterday in Türkiye and Syria, whose representatives are at today’s meeting.
We have recently had many completely empty meetings on the Syrian chemical dossier, an…
We have a point of order. We would like to go on record with our categorical disagreement about the presence at this meeting of the Coordinator of the Investigation and Identification Team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Mr. Santiago Oñate-Laborde. We see no groun…
At the outset, I would like to express our deep and sincere condolences to the Governments and the peoples of Türkiye and Syria with regard to the numerous casualties as a result of the devastating earthquake that has occurred in those countries. Our rescuers have already flown to Syria, and we are …
We would like to thank the delegation of Japan for having presided over the Security Council in January. We wish you, Madam President, and your team success and work that is as smooth as possible this month.
First of all, we would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, …
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. El-Ghassim Wane, and Ms. Aminata Cheick Dicko for their briefings. We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali, Mr. Abdoulaye Diop, at this meeting.
We firmly believe that th…
We thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, Mr. Muhammad Muhith, for their informative briefings. We also listened very carefully to the briefing delivered by Ms. Diago Ndiaye.
We are convinced that sound policy strategies at the national level ar…
I thank Mr. Karim Khan. As always, he has given an excellent and emotional briefing.
Darfur is the first pilot project of the Security Council to engage the International Criminal Court (ICC) in international efforts to normalize the situation in a specific country, namely, the Sudan, in order to a…
We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Ms. Ghada Mudawi for their briefings on the political and humanitarian aspects of the situation in Syria.
The situation in the country remains tense. The main challenges on the ground continue to be the illegal foreign military presence in the north-east and…
First of all, we would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the delegation of Gabon and the people of Gabon on the passing of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of their country. We too are mourning with our friends from Gabon.
We thank Ms. Helen La Lime for her briefing.
According to statis…
We thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East region in the context of the Middle East settlement process.
As we all heard from Mr. Wennesland, the situation surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains volatile. In the West B…
My delegation has always supported the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as a key United Nations structure for enabling the international community to coordinate solutions to environmental issues and for supporting the environmental pillar of sustainable development. On the issue of the el…
I shall refrain from commenting on the usual mantra of some members that everything that we bring to the Security Council on the subject of Ukraine is disinformation.
Many representatives in the Chamber today mentioned the tragedy in Dnipropetrovsk, where a missile destroyed the entrance to a resid…
We listened closely to the briefing of the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ilze Brands Kehris, but we would like to underscore that the Russian Federation continues to believe that matters of human rights protection do not fall within the purview of the Security Council and must be dis…
We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, for their briefings on political and humanitarian developments in Yemen.
We continue to closely monitor the situation in the country. …
To be frank, we do not fully understand why today’s meeting was convened. Is it so we can listen to a briefing by Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo based on the so-called reliable information thoughtfully provided by so-called independent sources and independent commissions? Did we hear anything new f…
We thank the briefers for their statements. For today’s meeting, our Japanese colleagues have focused our attention on issues related to the rule of law, which is indeed a very relevant and important topic that should be addressed systematically and impartially. However, the concept note (S/2023/1, …
We welcome Colombia’s Vice-President Francia Márquez Mina and Minister for Foreign Affairs Álvaro Leyva Durán to today’s meeting. We thank the Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for his briefing on the situation in the country and for his assessment. We…
I would like to thank Ms. Giovanie Biha,
representative of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), and Mr. Omar Touray, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), for the information they provided.
We share the concerns voiced t…
