Russia supported today’s resolution 2475 (2019), as we share the document’s humanitarian principles and its aims to improve support and protection for persons with disabilities in areas of conflict. However, we feel compelled to point out that a number of its provisions nonetheless go beyond the man…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting. We thank Special Representative Yamamoto for his briefing and his analysis of the processes currently unfolding in Afghanistan. We also listened carefully to the statements by Mrs. Raz, the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan,…
I will be brief this morning. We have still not seen any progress in the investigation into the situation in Darfur, and the status of the accused has remained the same. Nor will we comment on the internal situation in the Sudan. The Security Council has other, appropriate formats for those purposes…
So I now see that I have only just understood the real point of the question and the answer. It turns out that hospitals whose coordinates are known must not be bombed, but carpet bombing that wipes hospitals off the face of the earth is all right. That is how I understood my British colleague’s sta…
We listened carefully to the briefings by Under-Secretaries-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Mark Lowcock. However, we would like to thank
you, Mr. President, and the humanitarian troika for convening today’s Council meeting on the situation in north-western Syria. To be frank, we were also planning to…
We would like to thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, as well as the Force Commanders of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur and the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for their briefings on the situations in their missions. I too want to join my colleagues in ex…
We thank today’s briefers, whose work we also support, for their comprehensive overview of the situation in Yemen. The briefings we have just heard reaffirm the need for united international efforts to advance the political settlement, end the conflict and alleviate the humanitarian situation in the…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix for his briefing on the state of affairs in Darfur and on the main conclusions of the strategic assessment of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). We also listened carefully to Assistant Secretary-General Andrew G…
We are very pleased to see you presiding over the Council today, Sir. We are grateful to Kuwait for convening today’s meeting and for initiating presidential statement, on cooperation with the League of Arab States, which we support. We consider it essential to strengthen our cooperation with the Le…
We welcome you, Sir, as President of the Security Council and thank you for organizing today’s meeting. Mediating and preventing the conflicts that threaten international peace and security is indeed one of the most pressing tasks of the United Nations and of global politics as a whole. We are grate…
We welcome Mr. Тiébilé Dramé, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali, to today’s meeting, and we thank Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing.
At the outset, we would like to express our condolences to the Government and the people of Mali regardi…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, and your Kuwaiti colleagues for the invitation to address the issue of missing persons in armed conflict. We are grateful to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as well as to the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the O…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and share his serious concerns about the situation in Kosovo. We are grateful to Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of th…
I would first like to express our gratitude to Ms. Karin Landgren and Mr. James Cockayne for their detailed briefings. We also want to thank the delegation of Kuwait for organizing today’s meeting. The Security Council has been discussing its working methods in an open format with the participation …
I would first like to thank our Indonesian colleagues for their active and productive work in the month of May, and to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency and to wish you every success and hopefully a more or less calm month of June, politically speaking.
We are gr…
On behalf of the Group of Eastern European States, I have the honour and pleasure to extend our warmest and most sincere congratulations to His Excellency Ambassador Tijjani Muhammad Bande on his election as President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session. We also congratulate the Go…
We thank the Secretariat for preparing a detailed analysis (A/73/824) of the trends of the past 10 years. We are pleased to see the information on the efforts to combat AIDS, including the 43 per cent global reduction in AIDS mortality. However, the spread of HIV infection remains an acute global he…
The Russian delegation was not able to support the technical resolution 2471 (2019) proposed by the
United States delegation, which extends the sanctions regime for South Sudan in an unchanged form. We are against the automatic extension of sanctions and urge for basing decisions on the situation o…
I have indeed asked to speak again and beg the Council’s indulgence for just a few minutes more. First of all, I am very moved by the serious discussion today and with my welcome, which is truly very important to me. We are dealing seriously with every issue related to the evolution of the situation…
I am very pleased to be here in the Council today to participate in this regular but nonetheless very important discussion of the current situation in Syria, particularly on the humanitarian front. I think that today’s exchange will help us to better understand all aspects of the situation and to co…
