Distinguished members of the Security Council, before I proceed to my statement, I also would like to make three remarks with regard to the statement of the Russian representative.
First, Mr. Nebenzia is not Ukrainian and should not pretend to be.
Secondly, we were never one nation with Russia and…
In just a few weeks, the world will mark four years since the start of Russia’s unprovoked and treacherous full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, which has brought immense suffering to the Ukrainian people. In recent months, intensive diplomatic efforts, initiated by the United States and supporte…
I thank the presidency of Somalia for convening today’s meeting, as well as the delegations of Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia, Liberia and the United Kingdom for their support of Ukraine’s emergency request. I am also grateful to Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and the Office for the Coord…
Ukraine commends the initiative of the presidency of Slovenia to hold this timely debate.
Today’s discussion on leadership for peace takes place at a crucial moment, one in which we, the United Nations, face one of the gravest challenges. Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine is not on…
Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to the Slovenian presidency and to Your Excellency, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Tanja Fajon, for convening today’s meeting devoted to Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine. I also wish to thank the briefers, Ms. Gotoh and Assistant Secre…
I wish to thank the Sierra Leonean presidency for convening today’s meeting. We are also grateful to the briefers, Ms. Kayoko Gotoh from the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Ms. Edem Wosornu from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their comprehensive an…
I thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this important meeting.
None of these developments were accidental. No, Moscow is doing this on purpose. A country occupying a permanent seat in the Council is destroying the international peace and security that it is supposed to maintain. The logic is si…
In February, the Security Council adopted a very short resolution, resolution 2774 (2025), imploring “a swift end to the conflict and further urg[ing] a lasting peace between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.” Let me remind Council members that Ukraine was not exactly thrilled with that text. We m…
I am honoured to address the United Nations Security Council today, and I am grateful to the presidency of Panama for convening this emergency meeting at Ukraine’s request.
We asked for this meeting as the Council should not be sidelined in addressing Russia’s terror attack yesterday. The Charter o…
The Security Council is meant to meet and discuss real problems and threats to international peace and security. And the name of the real problem is written on the name plate of the Russian Federation. There are not two parties attacking civilians. There is one country, Russia — one problem for pea…
I wish to express Ukraine’s sincere appreciation to the presidency of Pakistan for convening today’s meeting. We are also grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča and Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya for their insightful briefings.
Tragically, since the previous meeting of the …
Let me thank the Guyanese presidency and Minister Vindhya Persaud for convening this debate. Ukraine is grateful to Special Representative Virginia Gamba de Potgieter for her dedicated work and commends UNICEF and Director SenGupta for their unwavering service.
The report before us (S/2025/247) pai…
I wish to thank the Guyanese presidency and, in particular, Ambassador Rodrigues-Birkett for convening today’s urgent Security Council meeting, and Denmark, Greece, France, the Republic of Korea, Slovenia and the United Kingdom for supporting Ukraine’s request. I am also grateful to the briefers, As…
I thank the French presidency for convening today’s Security Council meeting, and I am grateful to Under-Secretary-General Fletcher for his substantive briefing.
My delegation called for this meeting because the Russian Federation does not want a ceasefire. Every missile, every drone strike, killin…
I would like to thank Denmark’s presidency for convening this meeting. I am also grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya for her substantive briefing.
The Russian Federation continues to terrorize Ukrainian civilians by relentlessly striking critical infrastructure and residential areas…
I would like to thank the Chinese presidency for convening this meeting. I am also grateful for the briefing by Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo.
At the outset, I would like to express our profound gratitude to all United Nations Member States that, just hours ago, supported the relevant General Ass…
Ukraine commends the initiative of the Chinese presidency to hold this important debate and takes note of the briefers’ presentations.
As rightly pointed out in the concept paper for this debate (S/2025/78, annex), our world has entered a new period of turbulence and changes. That means, in particu…
I thank the Assistant Secretary-General, Mr. Miroslav Jenča, for his briefing.
Today’s meeting serves as a reminder of how the Russian Federation treats those agreements to which it is a party, and the Minsk agreements are a powerful example and one of many. On this very day in 2022, in this very C…
I recognize here the representative of Putin’s caporegime in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union.
As is often the case, just a few days after the Security Council meeting on the maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine (see S/PV.9816), which he labelled “a desperate attempt by the sponsors a…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo, and Executive Director Leff for their briefings.
The direct involvement of the troops of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is now a matter of fact. Starting from 14 December, at the latest, a gr…
