The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2653 (2022), put forward by the United States of America and Mexico, which establishes a Security Council sanctions regime against criminal gangs in Haiti.
Agreeing on an acceptable text did not come easily to the Council. We note that the sponso…
We thank Ms. Helen La Lime for her briefing. We welcome the participation of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Haiti and the Dominican Republic at our meeting.
Unfortunately, in the three weeks since the Council last met on Haiti (see S/PV.9136), the situation in the
country has become a worst-…
We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Leyva Durán, in today’s consultations. We thank Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, for his briefing on the situation in the country and for his assessments. We also…
We wish to thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis- Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for her briefing on the situation in the Republic of Iraq.
We are closely following the developments in friendly Iraq, where we remain concerned about the internal political instability, compounded b…
Before I address the topic of the meeting directly, I would like to express my bewilderment at the fact that you, Mr. President, did not see fit to grant our urgent request to convene a meeting today on the situation regarding the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline. As a result, we will now be dis…
We thank Tor Wennesland for his briefing on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
The escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone in August once again showed that the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories will remain volatile until the parties reach mutually acceptable c…
We thank the briefers for the information that they provided. We welcome the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Haiti and the Dominican Republic at this meeting.
The news that the situation in Port-au-Prince has stabilized is encouraging. Nevertheless, by all accounts, the country is one step away fr…
We just adopted the recommendations of the General Committee on the modalities of the work of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session. They clearly stipulate that the statements made at the general debate of the General Assembly must be delivered by the representatives of Member States i…
I would like to start with an expression of condolences to our brotherly Armenian people on the deaths that resulted from the fire at the Surmalu shopping centre in Yerevan and to the brotherly people of Egypt following the terrible fire at the Abu Sefein church in Giza. We would like to express our…
In the month that has passed since the last Security Council meeting on Ukraine (see S/PV.9080), we have made significant progress in achieving the objectives of the special military operation.
With the capture of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, the Russian armed forces and formations of the Donets…
First of all, we would like to congratulate the delegation of Brazil on a successful conclusion to its presidency of the Security Council this month. We appreciate our colleagues’ professionalism. We also welcome Ms. Sylvie Baipo Temon, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republi…
The Russian Federation supported the resolution prepared by the United Kingdom on extending the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) (resolution 2647 (2022)). It was the only possible compromise for all of us at this stage, and we all understand that the current configurat…
First and foremost, I wish to welcome Mr. Fuad Hussein, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq, and we wish to thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing.
It is with alarm that we have been observing developments in the frie…
We thank Ms. Lynn Hastings, the Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Process, for her briefing on the situation the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
Once again, we have to note that the fact that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues unresolved triggers frequent outbr…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee for her briefing.
We are closely following the developments in Libya. The inability to reach an agreement on the draft constitution and convene nation-wide elections within the time frame set out in the road map of the Libyan Political Dialogue Foru…
At the stage of development of resolution 76/262, which provides for a General Assembly meeting to be convened in case of the exercise of the right to the veto in the Security Council, we warned the sponsors that such situations rarely imply principled disagreements among members of the Security Cou…
Mrs. Nakamitsu presented us today with yet another report, the 105th report of the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013) (see S/2022/530). It is unfortunate that, like previous reports, it is built on the s…
We would like to express our gratitude to you, Mr. Simas Magalhães, and to the entire Brazilian delegation for organizing today’s open debate. I would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mrs. Virginia Gamba de Potgieter, Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Catherine…
We note that once again, it was anything but simple for Council members to arrive at an agreement on resolution 2645 (2022). In our view, the problem lies in a discrepancy between words and actions. We hear voices on all sides advocating the importance of a speedy political settlement in Haiti, with…
We welcome the personal participation of Ms. Marta Lucía Ramírez, Foreign Minister of Colombia, and Francisco José de Roux Rengifo in today’s meeting, as well as the briefing by Ms. Jineth Casso Piamba. We thank Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, for hi…
