We just adopted the recommendations of the General Committee on the modalities of the work of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session. They clearly stipulate that the statements made at the general debate of the General Assembly must be delivered by the representatives of Member States i…
We thank Special Representative Haysom for his briefing on developments in the situation in South Sudan. We welcome the participation of Mr. Akuei Bona Malwal, the Permanent Representative of South Sudan, in today’s meeting. We also listened carefully to the remarks by the South Sudanese civil-socie…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing.
The Russian Federation is extremely concerned about the sharp escalation of the situation in certain areas on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border that took place on the night of 12 and 13 September and the subsequent exchanges of fire.…
We note the timely topic of today’s meeting, and we thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Mr. Maximo Torero and Mr. David Beasley for their opinions and assessments.
The situation of civilians as a result of worsening food security against the backdrop of numerous armed conflicts throughout the world continu…
We would like to thank Deputy Special Envoy Najat Rochdi and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situations in Syria.
We see no alternative for making progress on the situation in Syria other than through a Syrian-o…
We are grateful to Mr. Volker Perthes, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his information on developments in the Sudan. We have taken note of the report of Mr. Harold Agyeman, Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations and Chair of the Security Council Committee es…
I would like to join in the condolences to the people of the United Kingdom and the royal family on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Russian Federation dissociates itself from the consensus on the decision to include the agenda item entitled “The situation in the temporarily occupied territor…
Today our Western colleagues did not address the topic at hand, as the facts prove that they did not merely indirectly but also directly participated in this proxy war. That is why they use their favourite tactic of shifting the focus from the topic of the meeting onto an activity with which we are …
At the outset, allow me to express to my heartfelt condolences to the Government and people of the United Kingdom following the passing away of their monarch, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
We thank Mrs. Nakamitsu and Ms. Trifković for their briefings. Unfortunately, we could not hear part of Ms. …
In exercise of the right of reply, I would like to comment on the openly politicized statements made by some delegations that have nothing to do with the topic under discussion this morning. In particular, today we once again heard unfounded statements regarding the so-called unprovoked aggression a…
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General James Swan, as well as to Ms. Fiona Lortan, Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia and Acting Head of the African Union Mission in Somalia, for their substantive briefings. We als…
We took note of the information provided by Rosemary DiCarlo and Ilze Brands Kehris. We also listened to yet more fabrications delivered by Oleksandra Drik, a well-known propagandist and former adviser to the Ukrainian Minister of Defence.
Today’s meeting, which was convened at the request of the U…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his informative briefing.
For decades, peacekeeping has been the backbone of the work of the United Nations in maintaining peace and security and has had a direct impact on the lives of millions of people. There are intense hopes placed on peacekeeping o…
We thank Secretary-General Guterres and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Rafael Grossi, for their briefings.
We commend Mr. Grossi on his decision to carry out the Agency’s mission at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which constitutes a responsible and…
Sexual violence is one of the most egregious crimes. The Russian Federation condemns all forms and manifestations of sexual violence and coercion and adheres to a policy of zero tolerance for such crimes.
In recent years, the United Nations has stepped up its efforts to combat sexual crimes in arme…
We thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya, for their briefings.
We are extremely concerned about the latest developments in Libya. The protracted tangle of disagreements between the…
Somewhere in the lengthy arguments of our United States colleagues, we heard a call for Russia and China to reach for their wallets and pay for the reconstruction of Afghanistan. They say that the United States and its allies alone are paying for everything, while Russia and China are only whipping …
We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen and Ms. Joyce Msuya for their overview of the political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
We are convinced that long-term stability and security on Syrian soil can be established only through the full restoration of the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial …
We thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for his assessment of the situation in Afghanistan. We listened closely to Deputy Special Representative Markus Potzel and Ms. Morgan Edwards, who worked in the country for many years i…
We thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland and Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, for their briefings. We also listened with interest to the briefing by Mr. Levy.
Today’s discussion of the situation in…
