We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing on the situation in
Libya. We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of India, Mr. Tirumurti, for his report (see S/2021/1058) on the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 19…
We welcome the first participation of Ms. Luz Marina Giraldo, a peace process participant and a signatory to the Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace, as well as that of Mr. Emilio José Archila, Presidential Adviser for Stabilization and Consolidation, in t…
Madam President, we welcome you as you
preside over the Security Council today. We also wish to note the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ghana, Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Palestine, Mr. Riad Al-Malki.
We thank Mr. T…
We are pleased to see you, Madam President, presiding over today’s meeting of the Security Council.
We would like to thank the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, Ms. Zarqa Yaftali and Ms. Kaavya Asoka for their briefings.
The issue of women and peace and secu…
We thank Mr. Mahamat Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) for his briefing. Russia welcomes his efforts to help the countries of West Africa, the Sahel and the Lake Chad basin overcome current difficulti…
First of all, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on the start of your presidency of the Council. You and your team can count on our support. I would also like to welcome our colleagues from Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates to the first briefing of the Securi…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2616 (2021), on combating illicit arms trafficking.
To put it bluntly, for the entire time the resolution was being discussed, we did not really understand why it was introduced in the first place. The penholders’ concept changed several …
We thank the briefers for the information provided.
With respect to the political situation, we wish to emphasize that we advocate the pursuit of intra-Syrian consultations in Geneva in the framework of the Constitutional Committee. We believe that there is no alternative to the advancement of the …
I would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo; Mr. Olof Skoog, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations; and Geraldine Byrne Nason, Permanent Representative of Ireland and Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), for t…
We would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, for their substantive briefings.
We are closely following developments in the situation in…
We welcome the briefings on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015), concerning the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities; the Committee established pursuan…
We wish to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East. We listened attentively to the statement delivered by Ms. Ero. It is symbolic that today’s meeting takes place in the wake of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
It i…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting. I would first like to congratulate Ms. Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani and Mr. Martin Bille Hermann, the Permanent Representatives of Qatar and Denmark, on their appointment as co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council re…
We thank Special Envoy Ján Kubiš for his briefing on the situation in Libya, as well as the Permanent Representative of India, Mr. Tirumurti, for his statement as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya. We will also listen very carefully to the repres…
I did not intend to take the floor again, yet I cannot help expressing my surprise over the obsessive persistence that our Estonian colleagues demonstrate at almost every Security Council meeting, seizing on any pretext to present a deceptive interpretation of developments at the Belarusian-Polish a…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her informative briefing on the situation in Iraq. We also listened carefully to Ms. Kabashi’s remarks.
We welcome the early elections to the Council of Representatives of Iraq on 10 October. We trust …
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2602 (2021), submitted by the United States, on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
During the negotiations, our justified comments and compromise proposals were not t…
We are grateful to Geir Pedersen and Martin Griffiths for their briefings, and we listened attentively to Ms. Albarouki. We highly value and support the mediation efforts of the Special Envoy on the political track. We welcome the completion of the sixth session of the small body of the Constitution…
We thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his briefing. We listened attentively to the civil society representatives, Mr. Daniel Levy and Ms. Hanan Ashrawi. We welcome the personal participation in this meeting of Mr. Kamau.
The achievement of lasting peace and security in the Middle East and…
We thank Mr. Hans Grundberg and Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham for their overview of the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. We also listened closely to Ms. Maysaa Abdulrahman Shujaa Al-Deen.
We are continuing to monitor the acute military and political crisis in Yemen. Of particular concern is …
