We thank United Nations Legal Counsel De Serpa Soares for his briefing.
Given the desire of our Western colleagues to spin fake stories about drones that Iran is allegedly supplying to Russia, I would like to begin by setting the record straight. We convened this meeting on another issue. There is …
We take note of Mrs. Nakamitsu’s briefing.
Unfortunately, once again we heard nothing substantially new and were presented with the copy-and-paste report (see S/2022/727, annex) of the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which was moreover issued on …
We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and
Director of the Operations and Advocacy Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Reena Ghelani for the briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
We advocate advancing a Syrian-led and Syrian- owned political …
We wish to thank the Special Representative of Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, for his briefing on the situation in that country.
First and foremost, I wish to congratulate Mr. Bathily on his appointment to his ver…
At the outset, I would like to express my bewilderment. We do not entirely understand the value added — other than extending the length of today’s meeting — by including the delegations of Germany, Greece, Poland and Slovakia on the list of speakers. Today’s meeting is not a debate but a briefing, …
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2653 (2022), put forward by the United States of America and Mexico, which establishes a Security Council sanctions regime against criminal gangs in Haiti.
Agreeing on an acceptable text did not come easily to the Council. We note that the sponso…
We thank you and your team, Mr. President, for having organized today’s meeting on strengthening women’s resilience and leadership as a pathway to peace in regions plagued by armed groups. We are grateful to the Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed, Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Sima B…
I would like to start by thanking the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Valentine Rugwabiza, for her briefing. We also welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Ms. Sylvie Valérie Baipo Temon, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic, and the Permanent Re…
We welcome the new President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, to New York. It is well known that a new appointment always carries new expectations with it. Our expectations are extremely simple.
The Residual Mechanism has taken a great de…
We are grateful to Ms. Caroline Ziadeh, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing on the situation in the province. We welcome the participation of Mr. Nikola Selaković, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and we listened to the opinions of Ms. Donika Gërvalla-Sch…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. El-Ghassim Wane, for his briefing on the work of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and the situation in the country. We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs…
We thank Ms. Helen La Lime for her briefing. We welcome the participation of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Haiti and the Dominican Republic at our meeting.
Unfortunately, in the three weeks since the Council last met on Haiti (see S/PV.9136), the situation in the
country has become a worst-…
We thank Special Envoy Hans Grundberg and the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Msuya, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian developments in Yemen.
The renewed truce between the Yemeni authorities and the Ansar Allah movement that had been in effect since Apr…
Accusations were levelled against the Russian Federation that distort reality. We have responded to them repeatedly, and therefore we will not spend time on them today.
We would like to underscore that a number of States have once again demonstrated that they have been exploiting Africa and the Afr…
We thank Ms. Pobee, Mr. Gahouma-Bekale and Mr. Youssef for their briefings.
The Russian Federation considers the problem of climate change a top priority, especially in regions such as Africa that are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters. It is an undeniable fact that climate-induced drough…
We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Leyva Durán, in today’s consultations. We thank Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, for his briefing on the situation in the country and for his assessments. We also…
We thank Gabon for organizing today’s debate, and we welcome your participation, Mr. Minister, in today’s meeting. We are grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres for his briefing. We welcome the briefing by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mr. Faki Mahamat.
United Nations coo…
First and foremost, we wish to express our deepest and most sincere condolences to the people and the Government of Pakistan, who are currently
going through a distressing period in their history. The destructive floods that have torn through the country are of an unprecedented scale and cause real…
I just wanted to note that, at the very beginning of her statement, the representative of France said that we needed to collect data and numbers and find out more about the illicit exploitation of resources by illegal armed and terrorist groups and how to combat it. We fully support that, and it is …
We welcome you, Mr. Minister, as you preside over the Security Council today. We thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Ms. Ghada Fathi Waly; the African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Mr. Bankole Adeoye; and the Regional Director…
