First of all, I would like to welcome your personal participation, Ms. Shirley Botchwey, in today’s meeting. We greatly appreciate the contribution of your country, a champion of pan-Africanism, to United Nations peacekeeping efforts and defending the interests of the African continent. We also wish…
During the debate, we set out our position on the activity of this prejudiced, politicized and incompetent international judiciary body. We will not repeat what we said. Obviously, the Court does not deserve our support. The amendments to this year’s resolution do not reflect the reality of the situ…
We welcome the participation of the Cuban Foreign Minister, Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, in our meeting this morning.
My delegation aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Eritrea on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations. I would…
We congratulate Ghana on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month and thank Gabon for its successful presidency in October. We welcome Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and thank him for his briefing.
Assistance to refugees is an essential…
We greatly value the work of the International Court of Justice as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. We thank the President of the Court, Joan E. Donoghue, for her comprehensive and detailed analysis delivered at our previous meeting on this item (see A/77/PV.20), held on 27 Octobe…
We note with concern the deepening internal political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There has been an unprecedented exacerbation of ethnic differences and deteriorating intercommunal dialogue throughout the post-conflict period. That is a direct consequence of the gross interference of Western
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We are extremely disappointed by the fact that the Security Council today did not manage to activate the mechanism provided for under Article VI of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruct…
The upcoming vote is a considerable milestone for the Security Council. We will have to decide whether the Council shows readiness to act in line with international law, in this specific case, with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (B…
We welcome the President of the Human Rights Council, Mr. Villegas. He is not at this meeting, but we still welcome him.
We have looked at the report on the Human Rights Council’s work for 2022 (A/77/53 and A/77/53/Add.1), and we regret to note that the past year has not brought any positive change…
Today we have heard many kind words with regard to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Let us now hear the truth.
The position of the Russian Federation regarding the activities of the International Criminal Court is well known and has not changed. Year after year, that judiciary body continues…
There are different interpretations of the statistics. I would like to draw members’ attention to the content of the website managed by our United Nations colleagues and the data of the Joint Coordination Centre. As of 29 October, the grain corridor in the Black Sea had granted passage to 409 ships,…
Before I address the topic of today’s discussion, let me express our surprise and great disappointment at the decision of the President to allow representatives of several European Union (EU) States to participate in today’s meeting. They have no connection with today’s agenda item. That sets a bad …
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representative of Somalia to the United Nations, Mr. Abukar Dahir Osman.
At the outset, allow me to express our sincere condolences to the Government and the people of Somalia following the heinous act of terrorism perpetrated in Moga…
Russia requested this meeting today in connection with the actions by the Ukrainian side on the Black Sea that pose a direct threat to international peace and security.
On Saturday, 29 October, at approximately 4 a.m., under the cover of the humanitarian corridor created for the implementation of t…
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East region in the context of a Middle East settlement.
We just listened to the emotional statement of the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Mr. Riyad Mansour, which could not…
The propaganda arsenal of our Western colleagues has long contained what they believe to be a hard-hitting argument: “Russia is raising a false alarm”, “spreads disinformation”, “misleads the Security Council members”, “distracts the Council from discussing more important matters”. At the same time,…
Russia abstained in the voting on resolution 2654 (2022), submitted by the United States, on renewing the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). The process of preparing and agreeing on the document was not fully consultative. None of our principled and…
We note the briefing of Deputy High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mr. Adedeji Ebo.
Russia requested the convening of this meeting of the Security Council on the basis of article VI of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biol…
We have heard nothing legally significant today in the statements of the countries that have asked the Secretariat to carry out an investigation, just the same sneaky arguments about the Secretariat’s
obligation to respond to the requests of Member States. It was especially touching to hear accusat…
We thank Special Envoy Huang Xia for his briefing and welcome the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Rwanda and Burundi to this meeting.
There is no question that the dire situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is having a major impact on the s…
