We thank Special Envoy of the Secretary- General Hans Grundberg, Ms. Ghada Mudawi, Acting
Director of Operations and Advocacy Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Ms. Azal Al-Salafi for their briefings on the developments of the situation in Yemen.…
We welcome the presence of Judge Agius and Mr. Brammertz.
We are compelled to note that, over the past six months, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals — the very name of which includes the word “residual” — did not make any progress in the planned completion of its activiti…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General El Ghassim Wane for his briefing on the work of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and recent developments in the country.
We welcome Ms. Sadya Touré and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and…
We would like to thank the President for convening this meeting on combating HIV/AIDS, which is an important goal under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the area of health care. It is particularly relevant in the context of the continuing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, becaus…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee and Mr. Gilberto Da Piedade Veríssimo, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States, for their briefings. We listened carefully to Ms. Jeanne-Danielle Nlate. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. …
We thank Mr. Ritscher for his substantive briefing on the outcome of six months of work by the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD). We have studied closely the eighth report (see S/2022/434) of the …
I would like to begin by expressing my condolences to the Islamic Republic of Iran in
connection with this morning’s train accident, which resulted in the loss of lives.
On 26 May in the Security Council, Russia voted against draft resolution S/2022/431 on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
We thank the briefers for the information they provided.
The ratcheting up of accusations that Russian service personnel have committed crimes of a sexual nature has been a favourite tactic of the Kyiv regime and our Western colleagues since the very beginning of our special military operation in U…
The Russian Federation supported the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS). We commend the responsible approach of the authors of resolution 2636 (2022), thanks to which Security Council maintained consensus on the issue of suppo…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2635 (2022), prepared by France, on extending the special inspection regime designed to implement the arms embargo on the high seas off the coast of Libya.
I underline that Russia, along with other members of the Security Council, was at …
We welcome Judge Joan Donoghue, President of the International Court of Justice, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Professor Dapo Akande to this open debate.
Let me take this opportunity to thank the delegation of the United States for its professional an…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee and Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Huang Xia for their briefings. We welcome the participation at this meeting of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Christophe Lut…
We are grateful to the Under-Secretary- General, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, and the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), Mr. T.S. Tirumurti, for their briefings.
We are increasingly worried about the developments in Libya, especially in the light of rec…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2633 (2022), prepared by the United States, on the extension of the sanctions regime on South Sudan.
Security Council sanctions constitute a powerful response to threats to peace, but we firmly believe that they must be applied with the u…
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his report on the situation in the Middle East.
Concern is growing about yet another escalation in tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories thanks to a recurrence of acts of violence, …
Russia voted against the draft resolution (S/2022/431) proposed by the United States. We are sorry that our American colleagues ignored the frequent clarifications we made during the drafting of the text in consultations and at recent Security Council meetings. We said we would not support this kind…
At the outset, I would like to express our condolences to you, Madam President, as well as the Permanent Mission of United States and the entire American people, for the horrendous crime that occurred yesterday in Texas, in which innocent people, most of them children, were killed, as well as for th…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Volker Perthes, for the information he provided on the developing situation in the Sudan. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the new Permanent Representative of the Sudan to the United Nations, Mr. Al-Harith …
We wish to thank our briefers for their briefings.
Digital technologies have transformed the world and become an integral part of its economic, political and social processes. There were hopes that they would become an engine of economic and social progress and that they would simplify communicatio…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, James Swan, and the Special Representative of the African Union, Francisco Madeira, for their detailed briefings. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representative of Somalia to the United Nations, Abukar Dah…
