We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix, Police Commissioner Violet Lusala of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei and Police Commissioner Patricia Boughani of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali for their briefings. Through their…
We welcome your personal participation, Mr. President, in today’s event. We thank the Secretary- General for his informative briefing, and Ms. Lourdes Tibán Guala for her insights.
We are grateful to Mexico for drawing attention to the topic of today’s debate. It is indeed highly relevant as the so…
We welcome the convening of today’s General Assembly meeting on the implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations and the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly. We want to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Australia and El Salvador, Mr. Mitchell Fifield and Mrs. Eg…
We listened carefully to the briefings by the High Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for the Horn of Africa, Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo, as well as Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo, on the most recent developments in the situ…
At the outset, let me congratulate Mexico on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for November and wish them a successful month. We also thank Kenya, its Permanent Representative and his team for their able leadership in October.
We are concerned over yet further worsening of the interna…
We thank the President of the Economic and Social Council for introducing the Council’s report on its work (A/76/3) under the presidency of Pakistan.
Despite the ongoing pandemic and the related impediments to the work of the United Nations, we believe that the Pakistani presidency organized an eff…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General, El-Ghassim Wane, for his briefing on the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and the situation in the country as a whole. We thank the Kenyan presidency, the Niger, France and our colleagues from…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2602 (2021), submitted by the United States, on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
During the negotiations, our justified comments and compromise proposals were not t…
We would like to thank the co-facilitators for leading the negotiations on resolution 76/4. We believe that retaining the existing funding model was the only option that could possibly be agreed on. We are happy to note that delegations reached a consensus in that regard. At the same time, I would l…
We are forced to respond the statement made by the representative of Ukraine. Ukraine decided once again to take the floor to repeat false accusations against Russia and to try to offer its own interpretation of a process that has not been completed. We would like once again to remind Ukraine that d…
We thank today’s briefers — Under- Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Special Envoy Parfait Onanga-Anyanga and the Chairperson of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel, Thabo Mbeki — for their comprehensive briefings.
We are pleased to note that, according to the most recent report …
We are grateful to Geir Pedersen and Martin Griffiths for their briefings, and we listened attentively to Ms. Albarouki. We highly value and support the mediation efforts of the Special Envoy on the political track. We welcome the completion of the sixth session of the small body of the Constitution…
We thank Secretary-General António
Guterres for presenting his assessments of the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda. We listened most attentively to the statements made by our guests: Under-Secretary- General Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women;
the African Union Special…
We welcome your participation, Madam President, in this meeting in your capacity as President of the Security Council. We are grateful to the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Huang Xia; to the Assistant Secretary-General, Martha Pobee; and to the Executive Secretary of the Internationa…
We have familiarized ourselves with the report (see A/76/248) of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. The Mechanism has not been shy about complimenting itself in its report for continuing its work under the conditions imposed by the pandemic. For our part, we would like to p…
We thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his briefing. We listened attentively to the civil society representatives, Mr. Daniel Levy and Ms. Hanan Ashrawi. We welcome the personal participation in this meeting of Mr. Kamau.
The achievement of lasting peace and security in the Middle East and…
We are grateful to Mankeur Ndiaye, Bankole Adeoye and Olof Skoog for their briefings. We also listened attentively to Pamela Derom. We also welcome the participation of the President of the Central African Republic, His Excellency Mr. Faustin Archange Touadera, in today’s meeting. His thoughts are p…
We are grateful to Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing on the situation in the province and for his views in that regard. On the whole, we agree with the assessments of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2021/861).
We welcome the participation in this m…
We thank the Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for presenting the report of the Secretary- General (S/2021/824) on the situation in the country. We also thank Ms. Peñaranda and Ms. Soto for their briefings. We welcome the participation in person of…
We thank Mr. Hans Grundberg and Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham for their overview of the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. We also listened closely to Ms. Maysaa Abdulrahman Shujaa Al-Deen.
We are continuing to monitor the acute military and political crisis in Yemen. Of particular concern is …
