We thank Mr. Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan, for briefing us on developments in the Sudan. We listened carefully to the statement delivered by Ms. Hala Alkarib and welcome the Permanent Representative of the Sudan to this meeting.
The internal politica…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General, Mr. Ján Kubiš, for his briefing on the situation in Libya. We also thank the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya, Ambassador Tirumurti, for his briefing on the work of that subs…
We thank Mr. Hans Grundberg and Ms. Ghada Eltahir Mudawi for their briefings. We also listened closely to Ms. Entesar Al-Qadhi.
Mr. Grundberg began work on an extremely complex brief; we hope that he will without delay begin working to establish a substantive dialogue among the parties to the confl…
I do not wish to distract the General Assembly as we move on to the other agenda item, but I asked for the floor simply to thank the 122 delegations that did not wish to vote in favour of the proposal by the Ukrainian delegation to include this item on the agenda of the General Assembly at its next …
With regard to Ukraine, we are unfortunately once again witnessing an unacceptable situation in which the General Assembly has become hostage to destructive methods. It is deplorable to see the world’s most representative platform for dialogue used by the Ukrainian delegation and its sponsors not fo…
We welcome your personal participation, Mr. President, in today’s meeting.
On 11 September, exactly 20 years will have elapsed since the tragic events in New York, when nearly 3,000 innocent lives were lost. We thank Permanent Representative Linda Thomas-Greenfield and other colleagues from the Per…
We thank Ireland, which this year has the honour of hosting the annual debate on peacekeeping reform, for drawing attention to the important topic of transition in peacekeeping operations. We thank the Secretary-General for his informative briefing and for the special focus he placed on the key role…
We welcome the briefings by the representatives of The Elders at today’s Security Council meeting. No one can doubt the need to strengthen the multilateral foundations of international relations or the importance of protecting and developing them at the world’s central global negotiating platform, n…
The Russian Federation welcomes the adoption of resolution 75/320, on the scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. We are grateful to the de…
Given that today’s meeting of the Security Council is the first open-format meeting in September, I would like to start by thanking the delegation of India for presiding over the Security Council in August and by wishing Ireland every success as President of the Council this month.
September — this…
We welcome Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s personal participation in today’s meeting. We also thank Tor Wennesland for his informative briefing.
We are watching with concern the continued tension in the Palestinian territories, in particular in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. The risk…
The Russian Federation firmly condemns the terrorist attacks that took place on 26 August near Kabul airport, killing hundreds of people. We express
our condolences to the friends and families of the victims, and we wish those injured a swift recovery.
Meanwhile, we had to abstain in the voting on…
We would like to welcome you, Sir, as Foreign Secretary of India, to the President’s chair.
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2592 (2021), on extending the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, put forward by the United Kingdom. At the same time, and similar to what was s…
At the outset, I cannot but echo the condolences to all victims and casualties of the terrible terrorist attacks in Kabul, which were clearly carried out by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
We thank Secretary-General António Guterres for his assessments of the developments in northern Ethi…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her briefing on the situation in Iraq. We also welcome the presence of the representative of Iraq at today’s meeting.
We are closely following the changes taking place in the friendly country of Iraq, …
We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen and Mr. Martin Griffiths for their briefings.
I think that it was extremely useful for everyone today to hear the sobering briefing by Mr. Khaled Erksoussi, a person who represents an organization that does not engage in theorizing about humanitarian assistance or politic…
We are grateful to our briefers today, Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Martin Griffiths and Henrietta Fore, for the information that they provided.
We are concerned about the continuing escalation of violence in Yemen. Reports indicate an increase in the number of Yemeni deaths in Ma’rib province as a resul…
(spoke in Russian): We thank Mr. Voronkov and Ms. Coninsx for their detailed analyses of the situation in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). We express our support for the activities of the
agencies they head. We thank Mr. Moradian, our long- time friend, for his com…
We welcome your personal participation, Sir, in today’s events. We highly appreciate your country’s contribution to United Nations peacekeeping efforts. India is not only one of the biggest troop contributors to peacekeeping operations, but also actively participates in discussions at the United Nat…
On behalf of the delegations of the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Republic of Belarus, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Cuba, we are compelled to express our disagreement with draft amendment A/…
