I would first like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for March and to wish you every success. I would also like to commend Equatorial Guinea for its conduct of the presidency in February.
We are grateful to Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, Chairper…
I would first like to thank the European
Union for its hard work and effective chairmanship of the Kimberley Process in 2018, and to welcome India, which has assumed the post this year. We would like to note that the Russian Federation takes a positive view of draft resolution A/73/L.75 and is one …
We deeply regret that the Security Council has once again been dragged into this exhibition of political adventurism.
Draft resolution S/2019/186, submitted by the delegation of the United States, was written to instigate regime change on a pretext of caring about people. We have seen all of this b…
We wish to thank Ms. Christine Schraner Burgener, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, for her thorough briefing on the situation in the country. On the whole, we agree with her assessment and support the desire to continue shuttle diplomacy. We remain of the view that seeking to resol…
We welcome Special Envoy Geir Pedersen to the Council for his first briefing and thank him for his report. We share many of the views that he expressed. Needless to say, one of the key points he made was about the importance of restoring lost confidence not just inside Syria but around it, among all…
We have before us draft resolution S/2019/186, submitted by the United States of America. We have finally reached the culmination of the spectacle of the United States’ double standards in Venezuela. During the Security Council meetings a month ago and then the day before yesterday (see S/PV.8452 an…
We are pleased to welcome you today as President of the Security Council, Sir. We would like to thank the Equatorial Guinea presidency, both in terms of its performance of its functions throughout this month and for organizing today’s meeting on a subject whose significance for the work of the Secur…
I shall not keep anyone here for long but, building on what was said by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, I wish to inform the Council that, as we have been holding this meeting, the United States delegation has already managed to kill our draft statement by introducing amendments condemning the Ma…
I did not intend to engage in polemics with my United States colleague. However, given that he has taken the floor, I should like to make one remark and pose one question.
With respect to whose rhetoric aligns more closely to the Cold War, I have my own views on that. Mr. Abrams was an active parti…
We thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo and welcome the Minister of the People’s Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Jorge Arreaza, to the Chamber.
I fully agree with my German colleague that the topic of today’s meeting should have been “Threats to international peace and …
We thank Ms. Reena Ghelani for her briefing.
We are pleased with the steadily declining violence in Syria. Despite the continuing trend towards stabilization, however, there are still some hotbeds of tension in the Syrian Arab Republic, including in Idlib governorate and east of the Euphrates. The …
We are grateful to Assistant Secretary- General Bintou Keita for her detailed briefing on the situation in Darfur and her own impressions of her recent trip to the Sudan.
We share our colleagues’ assessments of the current state of affairs in Darfur and note the continuing generally stable situatio…
We thank Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga,
Special Representative of the Secretary-General; Mr. Smaïl Chergui, African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security; Mr. Koen Vervaeke, Managing Director for Africa of the European External Action Service; and Ambassadors Omar Hilale and Gbolié Ipo, the Perman…
I would like to begin by stating that the proposed, or rather imposed, title for this meeting is deliberately misleading. If anyone is occupying Ukrainian territory today, it is the Maidan authorities under the control of external forces.
As for Crimea, I am not even going to talk about it today. C…
We thank Special Envoy Griffiths and Under- Secretary-General Lowcock for their comprehensive survey of the military, political and humanitarian situations in Yemen. We welcome the progress that the parties made during the fourth joint meeting of the Redeployment Coordination Committee under the lea…
We thank Mr. Michel Kafando, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Burundi, and Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, for their briefings on the evolving situation in Burundi. We listened with interest and gratitude to the report of Ambass…
I would naturally like to comment on some of the remarks that we have heard here today. I am not going to get into a direct argument with my Ukrainian colleague, but will merely point out that he went to a great deal of trouble to substitute the Russian military for one of the parties to the conflic…
We would first like to thank Mr. Jenča, Ms. Mueller, Mr. Apakan and Mr. Sajdik for their briefings today.
We took the initiative of convening today’s meeting in order to discuss the implementation of a document that is extremely important to the settlement of the internal Ukrainian crisis, the pack…
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s briefing. We are grateful to Under-Secretary- General Voronkov and Executive Director Coninsx for their briefings. We believe firmly that productive cooperation with their entities will guarantee progress in the work of combating terrorism under th…
At the outset, I would like to thank our colleagues from Equatorial Guinea for their principled position and for including this meeting on Kosovo in the Security Council’s February programme of work to enable us to discuss the situation there and the Secretary-General’s periodic report (S/2019/102),…
