We welcome Geir Pedersen and Joyce Msuya to the meeting and thank them for their briefings. We also listened to Nirvana Shawky’s comments.
On the political track, we note the holding in Geneva of the seventh session of the small body of the Constitutional Committee from 21 to 25 March. It is import…
We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, for his informative briefing on the situation in the Middle East region.
We continue to closely monitor developments in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the context of the ongoing clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque co…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-
Pierre Lacroix and Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for the Horn of Africa Hanna Tetteh for their informative briefings. I congratulate Ms. Tetteh on her new appointment. Let me also take this opportunity to thank Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga for his work…
I cannot but respond to the statement delivered by our colleague from the United States, who, in commenting on my statement on the Kosovo issue, drew a parallel to the situation in Ukraine. I call on him to go ahead and familiarize himself with the statement of the United States Representative at a…
First of all, I would like to congratulate Special Representative of the Secretary-General Caroline Ziadeh on her first briefing on the situation in the province, and I thank her for the views that she provided. We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Minister of Serbia, Mr. Nikola …
We take note of the views voiced by Ms. Kelly Clements, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, and Mr. António Vitorino, Director General of the International Organization for Migration.
We heard many alarming conclusions and terrifying figures in their statements. In that context, w…
We would like to thank the United Nations Special Envoy, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Martin Griffiths, on their briefings on developments in the political and humanitarian situation in the Republic of Yemen.
We are hopeful with regard to the pr…
We thank the Secretary-General and his Special Representative, Ms. Patten, for preparing the 2021 report (S/2022/272). We also wish to thank the guest briefers.
We are convinced that work to prevent and eradicate violence must be systematic and comprehensive, taking into account the identified caus…
We would like to thank the Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in the country (S/2022/267) and for his views.
We welcome today the President of Colombia, His Excellency Mr. Iván Duq…
We are grateful to today’s briefers for the information.
We had no doubt that today there would once again be many fabrications on the part of our Western colleagues regarding what is now happening in Ukraine in the light of the special military operation that we are conducting. Their scheme of act…
Today’s briefing on the topic of vaccination in the context of armed conflicts, post-conflict situations and complex humanitarian crises is a timely one. We thank the briefers for their useful overview of the global situation in terms of ensuring universal immunization against the coronavirus diseas…
I think perhaps we were not understood correctly. We are not against having meetings continue on the items the United States representative mentioned in relation to maintaining international peace and security in Ukraine. We simply expressed our comments and hope that they will be taken into account…
In connection with the adoption of the agenda of today’s meeting, which sounds like us maintaining peace and security in Ukraine, we would like to make the following statement.
As we have informed you, Madam President, in the context of our work, we are not against adding this item to the agenda of…
We are grateful to Special Representative El- Ghassim Wane for his briefing on the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and the situation in the country. We listened very carefully to Ms. Bouaré Samaké, and we welcome the participation of the Permanent R…
I know that this will not bring us any closer to the end of today’s meeting, but given that today’s topic is extremely important, I think that it is essential to say a few words on the reason this meeting was convened, especially as we were not given the chance to elaborate on that yesterday in a se…
At the outset, we would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to the delegation of the United Arab Emirates for its presidency during the month of March.
We thank the Secretary-General, Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and Under-Secretary-General
Griffiths for their briefings. We also lis…
We have factual evidence that this was no less than 24 hours before the meeting that we requested. That is confirmed in documents; if anyone is interested, we could provide proof. But I want to express the hope that what you said today, Madam President, means that you will not in future refuse reque…
Before we adopt the agenda, I would like to protest the way in which the newly inaugurated British presidency dealt with our two requests to convene a Security Council meeting in connection with the horrific provocation of the Ukrainian radicals in the city of Bucha.
On Sunday, 3 April, we first re…
The Russian Federation did not object to the consensus adoption of resolution 76/258, on the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). As a responsible member of the international community, my country understands the importance of the new Programme of Action for the interes…
Today, as we were holding our discussions, the situation in Ukraine was touched upon many times, again not on topic. Some countries have made it a habit to theatrically speak about violations of international law there. Those are exactly the same countries that in contemporary history alone have sta…
