I thank Mr. Jean Arnault, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in Colombia, for bringing us up to date. Ukraine welcomes the Secretary-General’s first report (S/2016/1095) on the implementation of the Mission’s mandate.
We welcome the new Final Peac…
We appreciate your initiative, Madam President, to bring to the attention of the Council one of the most critical topics in the field of peace and security. We share the ideas outlined in your concept note (S/2017/6, annex). We carefully read your manifesto on Sweden taking a Security Council seat a…
The Ukrainian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2336 (2016) today for one reason, which is that it focuses on establishing a ceasefire regime. While numerous questions linger about the scope and substance of all the understandings reached in Ankara on 29 December, we support all efforts to pu…
The issue of the arms embargo in South Sudan has been the subject of intense debate in recent months. While it is a matter of urgency, some delegations continuously advocate second-chance diplomacy. Ukraine is all in favour of using diplomacy as the primary path towards the resolution of the conflic…
Ukraine aligns itself with the statement to be delivered on behalf of the European Union and wishes to make the following statement in its national capacity.
First of all, taking advantage of the fact that the President of the Government of Spain is presiding over the Security Council, I would like…
Ukraine aligns itself with the statement to be delivered by the observer of the European Union. Meanwhile, I would like to make a few points in my national capacity.
Three months ago, the Council discussed the situation in Afghanistan (see S/PV.7771) and adopted presidential statement S/PRST/2016/1…
We appreciate the Secretary-General’s active stand on the issue, and we share the understanding of many States represented in the Chamber that the status quo in the Middle East leads only to further instability and makes the prospects of a two-State solution increasingly remote. Therefore, only proa…
Ukraine welcomes the adoption of resolution 2325 (2016) and appreciates the efforts of the Spanish presidency on the comprehensive review on the status of the implementation of resolution 1540 (2004).
Ukraine fully aligns itself with the statement to be made on behalf of the European Union and woul…
Ukraine is appalled by the reports of mass atrocities and manhunt campaigns launched by the Syrian regime and its partners in crime. Just listen to those Syrians trapped in Aleppo who cry out,
“We are all praying for rain. When it rains the planes cannot fly and the bombardment stops for a short wh…
I would like to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for the updates on her Office’s activities since June.
Ukraine remains deeply concerned about serious violations of international humanitarian law, indiscriminate killings and other crimes committed …
Ukraine supports the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in promoting the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Our State positively views the Agency’s activities in all main statutory areas: nuclear safety and security, technical cooperation, safeguards and nuclear ve…
I would like to express Ukraine’s sincere appreciation to the Spanish President personally for convening such an important meeting, as well as for initiating resolution 2322 (2016), which Ukraine sponsored.
I would also like to join other delegations in expressing our solidarity and condolences to …
I thank Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson and Assistant Secretary-General Andrew Gilmour for their sound introductions to our debate.
My delegation believes that gross and flagrant human rights violations are the flip side of the nuclear ambitions and aggressive policy of Pyongyang, and theref…
For the sake of time, I will be brief. It is obvious that there is a direct causal link between Russian actions in Ukraine since February 2014 and the dire humanitarian situation in my country. This has been confirmed on numerous occasions by reports of various United Nations agencies, the Organizat…
During the past decade, the international community has witnessed humanitarian crises of unprecedented scale and complexity, along with an ever-increasing need for immediate responses to emergency situations. The year 2016 is a vivid example of the global humanitarian funding requirements, which sur…
Welcoming the progress reflected in the recent reports of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (see S/2016/670) and International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (see S/2016/669), my delegation considers today’s meeting and the forthcoming adoption of a reso…
More than 25 years ago, as a young diplomat I spoke for the first time from this very rostrum on this agenda item. Today, I would like to express our gratitude to the Secretariat and to the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea for the work done during the intervening years, including th…
For the first time in the Security Council, I was very glad to hear the Russian Federation make a comparison between Syria and Ukraine because that is the issue that we have tried to raise here in the Council since we joined. The methods used by the Russian Federation and its proxies in Donbas are e…
Ukraine commends the dedicated efforts of the delegations of Spain, New Zealand and Egypt. Ukraine voted in favour of the draft resolution (S/2016/1026), since we wholeheartedly hoped that it would have served the purpose of breaking the dangerous pattern of escalation in Syria and contribute to eas…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, and to the briefers.
Just recently, the Council had an important occasion and a prime opportunity to deliver our concerns directly to the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila. The political agreement of 18 October 2016 can be seen a…
