We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, for his briefing, as well as his dedicated efforts to establish an intra-Syrian dialogue. We also listened with interest to Ms. Sabah Al Hallak.
As Mr. Pedersen has just informed us, the first round of intra-Syrian negoti…
We thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, and Ms. Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their comprehensive overview of the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen.
As we have heard from today’s briefers, the situation…
The Russian Federation joined the consensus on presidential statement S/PRST/2019/14 primarily because of our serious concerns about the numerous incidents involving terrorist and extremist groups’ use of chemical weapons in the Middle East, including for the purposes of provocation. We urge Council…
We welcome the presence at today’s meeting of Mr. Alpha Barry, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Burkina Faso, and we thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, and the other briefers for their reports.
We concur with today’s alarming assessments of the situation …
We thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his report on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. We would also like to thank Tania Hary for her briefing.
We are regrettably compelled to note that over and over again when we discuss …
We thank the Secretary-General and the other briefers for their assessments of the role of reconciliation in maintaining international peace and security.
Lasting national reconciliation is indeed a determining factor in the successful resolution of conflicts and the prevention of relapses into con…
The Russian Federation was compelled to abstain in the voting on resolution 2498 (2019), extending the sanctions against Somalia. We agree that the situation in that country in the Horn of Africa remains tumultuous. We took an active part in the efforts to identify and clarify the provisions of the …
I see that the representative of Germany still reads the New York Times. We long ago turned to more reliable sources of information and advise him to do the same.
As we understand it, the board of inquiry is an internal mechanism of the United Nations. Its report will be presented to the Secretary-…
I am about to conclude, Madam President.
Everything has got worse since a significant number of refugees from other camps in the north- east moved there. Half of the residents are women and children. It is high time to think about handing over the illegally occupied territory to the Syrian authorit…
I would like to begin by thanking Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock for his comprehensive and informative briefing. We agree that we continue to see the most difficult humanitarian and military situation in the territories outside the control of the Syrian Government on the eastern bank of the Eu…
We thank all of today’s briefers for their assessments. We would also like to ask the Heads of the peacekeeping missions’ police contingents to convey our thanks to all Blue Berets for their conscientious service and for carrying out the difficult task of maintaining peace and security. We pay tribu…
I would like to begin by welcoming you to the presidency of the Security Council, Madam, and wishing you and your team every success this month. We are also grateful to our South African colleagues for their leadership of the work of the Council in October.
We would like to thank today’s briefers, …
We thank Ms. Hanna Tetteh, Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union, and Ms. Fatima Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, for their detailed briefings.
We have thoroughly studied the latest report of the Secretary-General, issued in Sep…
We would like to thank Mr. Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and Chair of the Burundi configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their detailed briefings.
I want to begin with a few word…
I would first like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Huang Xia, for his comprehensive briefing and for his presentation of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2019/783) for the first time.
It is our view that the Peace, Security and Cooperation F…
We would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Geir Pederson, and the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Mark Lowcock, for their briefings.
Unfortunately, today’s meeting is a textbook example of the how the Syrian issue is often discussed in the Security Council. The humanitarian…
We wish to thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis- Plasschaert for her useful briefing.
The Russian Federation consistently advocates strengthening stability and security in the Republic of Iraq. The principal role in that process must be played by the Government and the people of Iraq. The new Iraqi authorities…
We thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his report on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. We welcome you, Mr. President, as Secretary of State of the Chancellery and Chief of the Cabinet of the President.
The Middle East is at th…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix and African Union Commissioner Smaïl Chergui for their detailed briefings.
Two months ago, we voted in favour of resolution 2479 (2019) on the technical rollover of the mandate for the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNA…
We had not intended to go into technical details, but because our American colleagues and their partners brought up specific issues, I am compelled to take the floor once again. I will be brief.
Since the 9M729 missile was mentioned, I would like to give an explanation. Over many years of discussio…
