We thank Martin Griffiths for his overview of the humanitarian situation in Syria. We also welcome Jan Egeland to today’s meeting and thank him for his balanced assessment of developments on the ground.
Today is our first meeting since the six-month extension of resolution 2585 (2021), in early Jan…
It is with great concern that we are following developments in the south of the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah, where on 20 January, fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured the Al-Sina’a prison — the largest penitentiary facility in the Syrian territory out of governmental …
We welcome your personal participation in this meeting, Mr. Prime Minister. I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his assessment of the situation in Afghanistan. We also thank the Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ms. Deborah L…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, for briefing us on the situation in Syria. We also listened carefully to Ms. Thuraya Hijazi’s remarks.
We support the continuation of inter-Syrian consultations in Geneva in the framework of the Constitutional Commit…
We welcome you, Sir, as President of the Security Council. We thank the Secretary- General for his participation. We also thank the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Ms. Al-Mutawakel for their information and assessments.
Once again, we are grateful to the Norwegian dele…
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing on the situation in
Libya. We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of India, Mr. Tirumurti, for his report (see S/2021/1058) on the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 19…
We take note of the decision of the General Assembly. Nonetheless, we had to vote against our own draft, as amended, for several reasons.
The consensus decision of the General Assembly on holding an official meeting in line with the adopted decisions was, de facto, made dependent on a number of cri…
May I correct your assertion, Mr. President, that no one requested a vote on the draft amendment (A/76/L.33/Rev.1) submitted by the delegation of the Dominican Republic. The Russian delegation did, as I said in my statement. The draft amendment is unacceptable to us, and that is why we have asked fo…
Russia submitted draft decision A/76/L.31, entitled
“Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes”.
Our document aims to maintain the modalities approved by resolution 75/282 to con…
We welcome the first participation of Ms. Luz Marina Giraldo, a peace process participant and a signatory to the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace, as well as that of Mr. Emilio José Archila, Presidential Adviser for Stabilization and Consolidation, in t…
We thank the delegation of Israel for having taken the initiative to draft and adopt a resolution against Holocaust denial, which we wholeheartedly support. Germany participated as the facilitator of the negotiation process, and this is a very significant and welcome development.
The mass murder of…
Madam President, we welcome you as you
preside over the Security Council today. We also wish to note the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ghana, Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Palestine, Mr. Riad Al-Malki.
We thank Mr. T…
We are pleased to see you, Madam President, presiding over today’s meeting of the Security Council.
We would like to thank the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Ms. Zarqa Yaftali and Ms. Kaavya Asoka for their briefings.
The issue of women and peace and secu…
I would like to thank Mr. Karim Khan. We have taken note of his information. The position of the Russian Federation on the activities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has not changed. The authority of any judicial body is based on its openness, impartiality,
apolitical nature and the legal…
We thank Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen Hans Grundberg and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Ramesh Rajasingham for their comprehensive reports. We listened attentively to Ms. Ola Al-Aghbary.
The new year did not…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. El-Ghassim Wane, for leading the efforts of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and his briefing on the situation in the country. We also listened attentively to the civil society rep…
We thank Mr. Mahamat Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) for his briefing. Russia welcomes his efforts to help the countries of West Africa, the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin overcome current difficulti…
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on the start of your presidency of the Council. You and your team can count on our support. I would also like to welcome our colleagues from Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates to the first briefing of the Securi…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2615 (2021), on providing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan in the context of the sanctions regime of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011).
We note that agreeing on this resolution was not an easy process. In …
