It is a great honour for me to address the primary body that is responsible for peace, stability and security in the world. As far as I know, this is the sixth extraordinary meeting of the Security Council. The Council is well aware of what is happening on the ground but let me additionally report o…
I am speaking in Russian in order to be properly understood. I support what Ambassador Churkin said with regard to the need to speak openly and be extremely honest. I just want to clarify a few issues he raised in his statement. I will be clear.
First, as to the occupation or threat of occupation o…
At the outset, I wish to thank you, Madam President, and all members of the Security Council for having given me the floor and for your important remarks, where I heard broad support for my country. Ukraine counts greatly on the Security Council to exert all possible efforts at the international lev…
I thank you very much, Madam, for agreeing to have this meeting at such short notice. I thank Mr. Eliasson for his comments and for presenting to us the statement of the Secretary- General, which is very promising. What I am going to say now, including the recent information about the developments i…
First of all, let me join previous speakers in thanking the Lithuanian delegation for organizing today’s open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts through United Nations peacekeeping and other relevant activities. We find it to be timely and topical.
While taking note of the few…
I have the pleasure of introducing draft resolution A/68/L.21, on Chernobyl, on behalf of the initiators of the draft resolution, namely, Belarus, the Russian Federation and my own delegation, I would like to thank the respective delegations for their active and substantive discussions on the text, …
I wish to thank the Secretary-General for the wide-ranging elements of his reports on oceans and the law of the sea (A/68/71). Ukraine has the honour to co-sponsor both resolutions A/68/L.18 and A/68/L.19. Our appreciation also goes to the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea for its ab…
Ukraine is strongly committed to the promotion and protection of human rights and pays special attention to United Nations activities in that area, in particular within the framework of the Human Rights Council. We positively assess the work of the Human Rights Council during the reporting period re…
The strengthening of the Economic and Social Council is clearly interlinked with the overall reform of the United Nations sustainable development architecture. We must therefore take a consistent approach to the implementation of resolution 68/1, on the strengthening of the Economic and Social Counc…
I would like to start by thanking the President of the General Assembly, Mr. John Ashe, for convening today’s debate. My delegation fully supports the personal engagement and energy with which the President has worked to advance the United Nations reform agenda, with Security Council modernization a…
Ukraine has traditionally recognized the value of sport in building a peaceful and better world, promoting tolerance, equality and understanding among people and nations. Through its unique power to bring us together, sport can transcend boundaries and unite people irrespective of their race, religi…
The accidents at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011 gave rise to the substantial revision and strengthening of international nuclear safety standards and to the improvement of international norms to ensure both the highest level of nuclear…
The Ukrainian delegation is pleased and honoured to participate today in the General Assembly’s High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.
The international discussion on migration and its influence on development is well timed and important. International migration is a comple…
Ukraine welcomes the report of the Secretary-General (A/67/822), entitled “Accelerating the AIDS response: achieving the targets of the 2011 Political Declaration”. Recalling the words of the AIDS activist from Ukraine, Mrs. Afanasidi, who spoke as the United Nations Civil Reporter at the high- leve…
The delegation of Ukraine is pleased to participate in this high-level meeting on the appraisal of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. We would like to thank the President of General Assembly for organizing this first-of-its-kind event, which provides us with t…
At the outset, let me express gratitude to the former Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, Ambassador Momen of Bangladesh, for his informative presentation of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) report on its sixth session (A/67/715), and to the current PBC Chair, Ambassador Vilović of Croatia, for…
Let me thank you, Mr. President, for holding this important debate. The choice of today’s theme came quite naturally for Pakistan as a top contributor of troops to United Nations operations. I should like to join previous speakers in commending the extraordinary role of your country in this sphere a…
At the outset, I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his extensive and helpful report on the subject of oceans and the law of the sea (A/67/79). Aligning itself with the statement of the European Union, my delegation would like to take the floor in its national capacity.
These days, we ar…
On behalf of my colleagues, the representatives of the 18 member States
of the Central European Initiative (CEI), and on behalf of sponsors of the draft resolution — Albania, the Czech Republic, Italy, the Republic of Moldova and Montenegro — I have the honour to introduce draft resolution A/67/L.6…
At the outset, let me express our gratitude to the President of the Security Council for the month of November, the Permanent Representative of India, for his presentation of the annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly (A/67/2), as well as to the delegation of
Colombia for its…
