We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari and Director of Operations in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Edem Wosornu for their briefings. We also listened to the statement by the civil society representative, Mr. Cameron Hudson. We welcome the participation of the Pr…
We would like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Ms. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. We are grateful for their detailed briefings on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. We have listened attenti…
We would like to thank Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his detailed briefing on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the context of the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
Regrettably, we can only agree with the briefer that…
We are grateful to former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for participating in the open debate. We have listened attentively to the briefing delivered by Ms. Dayal, a representative of academia.
A discussion on leadership for peace cannot be conducted without an analysis of the development of contemp…
We did not expect much from today’s intervention by the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Ms. Elina Valtonen. After all, throughout the year, the Finnish chairpersonship has consistently and systemati…
We welcome you, Minister, to the President’s seat. We are grateful to our Sierra Leonean colleagues for choosing such a pertinent topic for our open debate. We thank today’s speakers for their briefings.
We have carefully reviewed the report (S/2025/670) prepared by the Secretary- General on small …
I would like to very briefly react to the statements made by my French colleague.
His explanations now sound even less convincing than before. Therefore, I would suggest that he not take the floor anymore. He is only digging himself into a deeper hole.
He has cited alleged facts that have no basis…
We are grateful to our Security Council colleagues who supported the draft resolution submitted by the Russian Federation and China (S/2025/539) on the technical extension of resolution 2231 (2015) for a period of six months, until April 2026, and for the immediate resumption of negotiations in the …
First of all, I would like to welcome Mr. Seyed Abbas Araghchi, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iran, who is present in this Chamber today.
Today, the Security Council is set to consider a draft resolution (S/2025/539), submitted by Russia and China, on the technical extension, for another six …
We are grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres and the briefers for their contributions to our discussion.
Today artificial intelligence (AI) is not merely a trendy topic that everyone is talking about; it is, above all, a cornerstone of successful technological development and economic and …
It is highly regrettable that Security Council members must waste their time today on a meeting requested by our European colleagues purely to host the latest New York tour of a certain well-known former actor. For this meeting, they have crowded into the Chamber as if it were the subway at rush hou…
There was a time when, for many of us, Europe was synonymous with the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment, with progressive thought, culture and science. Today, however, that legacy is unfortunately gone, and gone for good. Great philosophers, such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Kant, have been repl…
We wish to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen, Mr. Grundberg, and Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Thomas Fletcher, for their briefings.
The situation in Yemen continues to give rise to very serious concerns. There has been virtually no progress in the …
The meetings on Ukraine requested by our Western colleagues follow the same fairly primitive template. Russia is being accused of strikes on Ukrainian cities, and they baselessly assert that the attacks were allegedly targeting civilian objects, ignoring the fact that during our strikes, civilian ca…
We are grateful to Mr. António Guterres and UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell for their briefings. We have closely listened to the representative of civil society.
Regrettably, the situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate, as clearly illustrated by the facts presented today by the Secr…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of the resolution crafted by France on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) (resolution 2790 (2025)). That decision was guided primarily by the position of the Lebanese Republic as a State hosting peacekeepers on …
We are grateful to today’s briefers for the information they provided on the situation in the Gaza Strip.
Over the past few days, we, like many others of our colleagues, have been stunned by new information showing record levels of famine in Gaza. Persistent calls on Israel to immediately stop the …
As I spoke first, if I may, I would like to briefly comment on some of the remarks we heard in the Chamber today.
First and foremost, in response to my Danish colleague, I would like to underscore his words regarding the assertion that Denmark has substantively cooperated with the Russian Federatio…
We would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing. Unfortunately, he did not properly update us. He did not mention the fact that today we circulated our letter (S/2025/534) regarding the assessments in the letter from the representatives of Denmark, Germany and Swed…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ms. Hanna Tetteh, for her report. We also listened carefully to the report of the Somali Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to …
