Because this is the last meeting under this month’s United Kingdom presidency, I had to take this opportunity to say that we are very happy that the month is drawing to a close.
As we all know from popular movies and books, British diplomats and other officials are extremely considerate, polite, co…
We take note of the views voiced by Ms. Kelly Clements, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, and Mr. António Vitorino, Director General of the International Organization for Migration.
We heard many alarming conclusions and terrifying figures in their statements. In that context, w…
We would like to thank the United Nations Special Envoy, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Martin Griffiths, on their briefings on developments in the political and humanitarian situation in the Republic of Yemen.
We are hopeful with regard to the pr…
We are grateful to today’s briefers for the information.
We had no doubt that today there would once again be many fabrications on the part of our Western colleagues regarding what is now happening in Ukraine in the light of the special military operation that we are conducting. Their scheme of act…
I think perhaps we were not understood correctly. We are not against having meetings continue on the items the United States representative mentioned in relation to maintaining international peace and security in Ukraine. We simply expressed our comments and hope that they will be taken into account…
In connection with the adoption of the agenda of today’s meeting, which sounds like us maintaining peace and security in Ukraine, we would like to make the following statement.
As we have informed you, Madam President, in the context of our work, we are not against adding this item to the agenda of…
As this is the last meeting of your presidency, I would like to thank and congratulate you, Madam President, at the end of your Council presidency.
It is no exaggeration to say that we had a very busy month. Nevertheless, your presidency was very successful. Your credible stewardship of the Council…
I would like to respond to the statement by Ms. Sherman. I will not comment on the part about her participation in the negotiations. Of course, she is much more informed about that than I or my colleagues are. However, because the negotiations did not succeed, perhaps she fell short in some way in t…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, the Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Mr. Martin Griffiths, and the Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Mr. Hossam Zaki, for sharing their views.
We welcome…
We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East, Mr. Tor Wennesland, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East settlement process in the context of the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
We listened with concern to his report on the continued impasse in the sett…
We thank the Under-Secretary-General, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, and the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya, Ambassador Tirumurti, for their briefings. We listened closely to the statement by Ms. Shuaiter.
We respect the desire of Lib…
We thank Mr. Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their overview of the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen.
We regret to note that the Yemeni Republic continues to experience an acute milit…
We thank the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), Mr. Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez, for his thorough briefing on the work of that subsidiary body of the Security Council and his indication of the priorities for the upcoming period.
The Russian Federation is unwa…
I am not going to take up too much of my colleagues’ time.
Since a number of our Western colleagues touched on issues that are not related to the topic of today’s meeting — namely, Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine — I would like to respond to what has been said. For example, the repr…
The Council met 10 days ago to discuss the Syrian chemical weapons (see S/PV.8982), and since then there have been no changes on the ground or at the level of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This was reconfirmed by the report of the Director-General of the OPCW for t…
I wanted to take the floor to express our surprise at the statements to the effect that Russia’s non-participation in the deconfliction mechanism is not acceptable and violates the norms of international humanitarian law. It was very surprising to us to be accused by the United Kingdom, whose armed …
We thank Martin Griffiths for his overview of the humanitarian situation in Syria. We also welcome Jan Egeland to today’s meeting and thank him for his balanced assessment of developments on the ground.
Today is our first meeting since the six-month extension of resolution 2585 (2021), in early Jan…
It is with great concern that we are following developments in the south of the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah, where on 20 January, fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured the Al-Sina’a prison — the largest penitentiary facility in the Syrian territory out of governmental …
We welcome your personal participation in this meeting, Mr. Prime Minister. I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his assessment of the situation in Afghanistan. We also thank the Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ms. Deborah L…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, for briefing us on the situation in Syria. We also listened carefully to Ms. Thuraya Hijazi’s remarks.
We support the continuation of inter-Syrian consultations in Geneva in the framework of the Constitutional Commit…
