We are grateful to Mr. Mladenov and Mr. El- Ad for their informative briefings.
The situation in the Middle East continues to be a complex one requiring a significant collective effort, first and foremost by the United Nations and its Security Council, which is the main guarantor of the internation…
I did not plan to take the floor either, but my colleagues have left me with no choice. Yes, of course rule 37 is an important one, and we are obliged to keep to the designated agenda item for the meeting that we are discussing, but insisting that the representative of a country that is directly aff…
We thank Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura for his briefing. It is not yet time to bid him farewell, and we will postpone that for now, because he has promised to work on this matter up to the last minute.
Recently in Syria we have seen a trend towards stabilization associated with the liberation of…
My statement will not be as sunny as that of some of the delegations that preceded me, and I would therefore like to ask members to listen carefully.
We thank the leadership of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for the presentation of the report (see A/73/289) on its activ…
We thank the Secretary-General for
participating personally in our meeting today and for his informative briefing on the subject.
The aspects that the Bolivian presidency touched on today relating to the issue of States’ sovereignty over their natural resources are extremely important and are appa…
We thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Said Djinnit, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, for their comprehensive briefings on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and on the process of implementing the Peace, Security and C…
Given that this is my first meeting under your
presidency, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, and wish you every success during the month of October. We welcome the presence in the Chamber today of Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, to discuss this impo…
Today we would like to address the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Shifting the management paradigm in the United Nations: comparative assessment of human resources structures” (A/73/366), which we have studied with interest. It gives a comparative assessment of the Secretariat’s two propo…
We would like to congratulate the delegation of Bolivia on the start of its presidency of the Security Council and to note the timeliness of today’s joint briefing on three of its important subsidiary bodies. We thank the briefers, all of whom clearly identified the tasks facing the Council and the …
The statements delivered during this session’s general debate confirm that international relations are now being conducted in a complex and controversial period of history.
Today, we are all witnessing two opposing trends collide. On the one hand, we see the strengthening of polycentric principles …
In the past few months, considerable progress has been achieved in resolving the problems on the Korean peninsula. The region has seen a significant reduction in tensions as a result of the moratorium declared by Pyongyang in April on missile launches and nuclear tests, the closure of the nuclear-we…
In the modern world, the ability to effectively combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is particularly crucial to the maintenance of global and regional stability and to reliably ensuring the security of every State, without exception. Constructive cooperation in this area is an imp…
The position of the Russian Federation on the concept of the responsibility to protect is well known. We will not repeat it now. But, before we proceed to a vote on this issue, we think it essential to take a brief look at history.
We recall that the member countries of the group promoting the conc…
During the meeting of the General Committee on 19 September, we expressed our negative view on the inclusion of the item on the so-called temporarily occupied territories in Ukraine on the agenda of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly. It is lamentable that the Committee, at the reques…
The work on the draft text for resolution 2436 (2018) proposed by our American partners was not easy. At one point, frankly, we were on the verge of radical decisions and a situation that would have deprived the Council of unity on an issue of major importance requiring a collective decision. We are…
We thank the delegation of the United Kingdom for having taken this initiative and the United States delegation for convening today’s important meeting so promptly. We are grateful to Mr. Lowcock for his briefing on the humanitarian situation in Yemen, which we found extremely alarming.
We have a l…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Special Envoy Nicholas Haysom for their substantive briefings.
We believe that the continuation of the joint efforts of the parties, including the political dialogue at the highest level, are key to the successful progress of t…
We thank Special representative Mladenov for his substantive briefing on the Middle East settlement.
Today’s meeting is taking place on a landmark day for the history of the peace process in the Middle East. Forty years ago, the Camp David Agreements were arrived at. Twenty-five years ago, the Oslo…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix and Special Envoy Nicholas Haysom for the detailed information on the situation in South Sudan and the progress in the South Sudanese political settlement. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Haysom for the work that he has done an…
At the outset, I should like to extend our gratitude to all of those delegations that have voiced
their condolences in connection with the tragedy that occurred yesterday in the skies over Syria.
We thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura and Mr. Mark Lowcock for their briefings.
Yesterday, in Sochi, yet an…
