Madam President, we are once again pleased to see you presiding over the Security Council, and we are grateful to our Indonesian colleagues for proposing that we address the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. My thanks also go to the Secretary-General, Mr. Peter Maurer, Presiden…
We thank Mr. Raisedon Zenenga, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Somalia, Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller and Mr. Francisco Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and Head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM),…
It is a pleasure to see you in the Council, Madam President. We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, and the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Mr. Pierre Krähenbühl, f…
Russia has always consistently advocated the generally accepted principles and norms of international law, including the principles of equality and self-determination of peoples, which still play a key role in today’s world. Russia, as the successor to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, has si…
We thank Mr. Ghassan Salamé, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Smaïl Chergui, the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, for their detailed briefings. We support Mr. Salamé’s work and will continue to help him. We want to affirm to Mr. Chergui that the Russian …
We would like to thank Ms. Hennis- Plasschaert, the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for her detailed and objective briefing. The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), which she heads, is playing an important role in assisting the Iraqi authorities in dealing with a ra…
I will be very brief, Mr. President. Today we have witnessed an attempt to introduce censorship into the Security Council. We do not consider that the way it was done helps to maintain a businesslike atmosphere in the Security Council. That is my first point. Secondly, I have no illusions that I wil…
What will the Russian-speaking Ukrainians have to deal with once the new law comes into force? Let me say it straight out, they will be dealing with the forced total Ukrainization of social life. In a short time they will be able to use Russian only in private conversations and religious rites. A co…
I have a rhetorical question for my British colleague. What are his criteria for judging whether my statement is substantive or an explanation of vote? I consider it to be an explanation of vote and I would be grateful for a ruling from you permitting me to complete my statement, Mr. President.
During his inauguration today, President Zelensky spoke out specifically against attempts to sow division in Ukrainian society based on language. The fight against Russian language and culture and the desire to destroy the all-embracing ties between these two brother countries became the hallmark of…
We attach great importance to our regular meetings with the Chairs of the three Security Council Committees with mandates in counter-terrorism, the Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and the Taliban and associated…
We deeply deplore the fact that a number of delegations have nonetheless displayed double standards with regard to our discussion of the issue of Ukraine in the Security Council. It is obvious to us that they find the subject unpleasant because it does not allow them to excuse their protégés in Kyiv…
I would first like to remind my French colleague that there is no Russian-Ukrainian conflict. There is an internal Ukrainian conflict and a crisis in the relations between Ukraine and Russia that was created by the former Ukrainian leadership. In the context that the representative of France referre…
We are grateful for the convening of today’s
meeting, and we thank the current and former Chairs of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), Ambassador Guillermo Fernández de Soto Valderrama, of Colombia, and Ambassador Ion Jinga, of Romania, for their informative briefings (see A/73/PV.81) and diligent…
We thank Ms. DiCarlo and Mr. Lowcock for their briefings.
To be honest, we have a feeling of déjà vu all over again. We frequently heard these kinds of appeals and lamentations during the pacification of eastern Aleppo and Ghouta. But I want to ask why the humanitarian troika was in no hurry to cal…
We welcome Mr. Alpha Barry, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso, to today’s meeting, and we thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary- General for Africa, and the other briefers for the information they have given us.
We agree with the alarming views expressed today about the situation i…
We thank our briefers, Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock. We are grateful to UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore for her worrisome assessment and to the Permanent Representative of Peru for organizing the important visit by the Committee established pursuan…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2469 (2019), extending the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). We note the stabilization of the situation in Abyei, where intercommunal dialogue has been established. We believe it is essential to maintain the …
Unfortunately, the report of the High Representative for Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2019/364, annex) under discussion is far from an impartial assessment of the situation in the country, contrary to what its author, Valentin Inzko, would have us believe. What …
Every six months for eight years now, we have listened to briefings from the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the investigation
of the situation in Libya. Today is the seventeenth report in a row. From one year to the next in this Chamber we are assured that the ICC is the in…
