I would like to begin by welcoming you to the presidency of the Security Council, Madam, and wishing you and your team every success this month. We are also grateful to our South African colleagues for their leadership of the work of the Council in October.
We would like to thank today’s briefers, …
In 2006, when the General Assembly adopted its historic resolution 60/251, establishing the Human Rights Council, the entire international community had great hopes for that decision. The times were changing. Instead of the biased United Nations Human Rights Commission, which by then had totally dis…
I would like to thank Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for his informative briefing about the situation in the province. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić…
The Russian Federation feels compelled to comment on the statement by the delegation of Ukraine, which once again confused the General Assembly Hall in New York with the Peace Palace in The Hague and decided to continue judicial proceedings under the agenda item of the report of the International Co…
In the context of the international efforts to resolve the issue of the Western Sahara, we would like to once again affirm the Russian Federation’s well- known and consistent position.
We support a balanced and unbiased approach to the issue, with direct negotiations between Morocco and the Frente …
We thank Ms. Hanna Tetteh, Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union, and Ms. Fatima Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, for their detailed briefings.
We have thoroughly studied the latest report of the Secretary-General, issued in Sep…
We would like to thank Mr. Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and Chair of the Burundi configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their detailed briefings.
I want to begin with a few word…
At the outset, we would like to express our gratitude for the convening of today’s meeting. We thank Secretary-General António Guterres for his assessment of progress in the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda. We listened with interest to the briefing by Ms. Phumzile Mlambo- N…
We welcome you, Madam, as you preside over the Security Council today. We also thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing.
Today we are once again discussing the situation in the Middle East. What is the Middle East? Is it even possible to c…
I have long noted and been aware of the fact that my friend, the German representative, has a predisposition towards inviting me to engage in dialogue during Security Council meetings. I cannot deny him that pleasure. I wish to make this an interactive dialogue. He does not need to give me the artic…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix and Special Envoy Parfait Onanga- Anyanga for their briefings on the progress in the peace process between the Sudan and South Sudan and on the activities of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). We note the contribution o…
We thank Assistant Secretaries-General Khaled Khiari and Ursula Mueller for their briefings. We are also grateful to Ms. Agnès Marcaillou, Director
of the United Nations Mine Action Service, for her report on the work that is under way in Syria in that area.
On 22 October, the Russian Federation a…
The Russian delegation is taking the floor to discuss sub-items (a) and (b) of agenda item 64, and is grateful to the Secretariat for preparing the related reports (A/74/193 and A/74/301). We welcome the coordinated efforts of the United Nations in this area. One important aspect of that was in assi…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix for the information he has provided on the state of affairs in Darfur and the activities of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) in the region. We welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of the Sudan a…
We are grateful to Mark Lowcock and Martin Griffiths for their detailed briefings on the military, political and humanitarian situation in the Republic of Yemen.
As we heard today, the situation in the country, especially on the humanitarian front, remains dire. In spite of the fact that the cessat…
I would first like to join previous speakers in welcoming the participation of the new Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru in the present meeting. We wish Mr. Meza-Cuadra every success in his important new post.
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix for presenting the final report …
Russia supports the General Assembly’s adoption, in resolution 74/2, of the political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage. We welcome its affirmation of universal health coverage as an important factor in fostering healthy lifestyles and sustainable development in gene…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, and Mr. Emilio Archila, Presidential Counsellor for Stabilization and Consolidation. We also thank Special Representative Carlos Ruiz Massieu for presenting the Secretary- …
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s debate. We are grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres for his briefing, and we also thank Ambassador Mulamula, Ms. Maite and Ms. Vilakazi for their interesting briefings. We fully support the subject that our South African friends have plac…
I would first like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Huang Xia, for his comprehensive briefing and for his presentation of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2019/783) for the first time.
It is our view that the Peace, Security and Cooperation F…
