We would like to thank the group of countries that initiated resolution 76/264 for drafting the text. We welcome the fact that it is dedicated to the issue of ensuring global food security, which has traditionally been one of Russia’s priorities, and we are therefore pleased to join the consensus on…
We thank Mr. Martin Griffiths for sharing his insights.
It would not be overstating things to say that in the context of the issue under discussion today, we are all concerned first and foremost about the question of the future of the cross-border mechanism for delivering humanitarian assistance to…
We welcome the participation at today’s meeting of the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Mr. Qu Dongyu, and the Executive Director of the World
Food Programme (WFP), Mr. David Beasley. We thank them fo…
I thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the floor. Regarding the statement of the representative of the United States of America, I believe that I have already provided a comprehensive response in my main statement.
I now wish to comment on the statement of the Permanent Representative of the Uni…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee for her briefing on the evolving situation in the region.
We are also grateful to the representatives of the Joint Force of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel) and civil society.
Unfortunately, the situation in the Sahel is not improving, a…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert for her briefing on the situation in Iraq. We also listened very carefully to Ms. Hanaa Edwar.
We remain concerned over the internal political situation in Iraq, which is compounded by the difficult socioeconomic si…
There are once again attempts to divert the discussion, move the focus away from the topic that we initially put forward and mix together chemical and biological weapons. Those are different things. You, Mr. President, talked about both, but we are talking about specific facts that we have uncovered…
Russia has requested a meeting on the military and biological activities of Ukraine for the third time. Let me explain why.
We continue to receive very disturbing documentary evidence that the United States Department of Defense is directly involved in carrying out dangerous biological projects in …
We welcome the UNICEF Deputy Executive Director for Programmes, Mr. Omar Abdi, and Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya to this meeting. We listened carefully to their briefings.
Today a number of representatives spoke on issues other than children and education, which was the topic of today’s m…
The Russian Federation supported resolution
2630 (2022), prepared by the United States, on extending the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) for another six months. We continue to view Blue Helmets as an important factor in guaranteeing stability in the region an…
We note with regret that, in the six months since the previous Security Council debate on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (see PV.8896), the state of affairs in that country has not improved. We are witnessing the deepest internal political crisis of the entire post-conflict period and an un…
Russia opposes any military activity that threatens the security of the Korean peninsula and the States of North-East Asia. We are convinced that seeking mutually acceptable political and diplomatic solutions is the only way to peacefully resolve the issues concerning the Korean peninsula and establ…
We would like to express our reservations about the fact that we do not consider German citizen Christian Schmidt to be the legitimate High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Security Council did not approve his appointment to that position. We would like to highlight the fact that the s…
First, we would like to congratulate the United States on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May. We trust that, unlike the previous presidency, yours will be effective and impartial, as is necessary when acting in the capacity of President of the Security Coun…
Because this is the last meeting under this month’s United Kingdom presidency, I had to take this opportunity to say that we are very happy that the month is drawing to a close.
As we all know from popular movies and books, British diplomats and other officials are extremely considerate, polite, co…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2629 (2022), prepared by the United Kingdom, on extending the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
Nonetheless, we have many questions about the Mission’s work, which we raised very actively during negotiations on the draft. We…
We thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for presenting the
latest report (see S/2022/281) of the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013). Unfortunately, it is virtually a carbon copy of the previous report (see S/2022/181).…
We have read the latest report of Mr. Karim Khan on his investigation of the situation in Libya. We also note the so-called road map, which sets out the Prosecutor’s vision for further work on the Libyan file. The attempt to review the approaches of the previous Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, which wer…
We thank Mr. Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, and Mr. João Samuel Caholo, Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, for their briefings. We listened very attentively to the briefing provided by Mr. Dinesh Mahtani.
We …
Let me say a few words about resolution 76/262, which was just adopted. Quite frankly, we had no desire to join the consensus. I shall explain why.
The right of veto of the permanent members of the Security Council is a cornerstone of the United Nations architecture. Without it, the Security Counci…
