The Russian delegation was not able to support the technical resolution 2471 (2019) proposed by the
United States delegation, which extends the sanctions regime for South Sudan in an unchanged form. We are against the automatic extension of sanctions and urge for basing decisions on the situation o…
We thank Mr. Raisedon Zenenga, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Somalia, Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller and Mr. Francisco Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and Head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM),…
We welcome Mr. Alpha Barry, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso, to today’s meeting, and we thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary- General for Africa, and the other briefers for the information they have given us.
We agree with the alarming views expressed today about the situation i…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2469 (2019), extending the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). We note the stabilization of the situation in Abyei, where intercommunal dialogue has been established. We believe it is essential to maintain the …
Unfortunately, the report of the High Representative for Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2019/364, annex) under discussion is far from an impartial assessment of the situation in the country, contrary to what its author, Valentin Inzko, would have us believe. What …
We would like to welcome you to the Security Council, Madam President, and to thank you for organizing today’s debate on issues related to the training of peacekeepers and building the capacity of United Nations peacekeeping operations. We are also grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres and …
We too would like to thank Under- Secretary-General Lacroix for his information on the inter-Sudanese settlement and the activities of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). We welcome Mr. Onanga-Anyanga in his new role as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of…
We thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing today’s event and the delegation of Venezuela for its leadership in negotiating resolution 73/127, establishing 24 April as the International Day for Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. It is symbolic that the situation that Venezuel…
We thank Mr. Jeremiah Mamabolo, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the
African Union, and Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for their detailed briefings on the situation in Darfur.
To be honest, after hearing a number of our colleagues’ statements, we have the distinct…
I will be very brief. It is just to clarify the situation of vaccines. I just wanted to say that the Government of Venezuela was ready to buy the vaccines but, as I said, the money that had been deposited in British and American banks was stolen from it.
It is very simple. First, the problem is cre…
As you suggested, Mr. President, we will dissolve all our welcomes and diplomatic formalities in the sand of the Thuringian hourglass and get right down to business.
We have very mixed feelings about the situation in Haiti. On the one hand, we are seeing increasingly
optimistic assessments of the …
We welcome Prime Minister Soumeylou Maïga of Mali to today’s meeting and thank Secretary- General Guterres for his briefing.
At the outset, we would like to express our condolences to the Government and the people of Mali regarding the horrific tragedy in the village of Ogossagou, where more than 1…
I would just like to say a few words,
speaking in French so as not to disrupt the francophone atmosphere of this meeting. On behalf of us all, I would like to pay tribute to our French friends for their excellent logistical support and assistance throughout the mission. The United Nations experts, …
We are grateful to Mr. Said Djinnit, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, for his comprehensive briefing. We thank him for his great personal contribution to the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and…
First of all, like my colleagues before me, I would like to express my condolences to the Government and the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in connection with the railway disaster in Kasai province, as well as to the African States affected by Cyclone Idai. We also mourn the victims …
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2459 (2019), on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. However, we want to emphasize that we fully support the activities of the Blue Helmets deployed there, as they are significantly contributing to the…
We wish to thank Ms. Christine Schraner Burgener, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, for her thorough briefing on the situation in the country. On the whole, we agree with her assessment and support the desire to continue shuttle diplomacy. We remain of the view that seeking to resol…
I shall not keep anyone here for long but, building on what was said by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, I wish to inform the Council that, as we have been holding this meeting, the United States delegation has already managed to kill our draft statement by introducing amendments condemning the Ma…
We are grateful to Assistant Secretary- General Bintou Keita for her detailed briefing on the situation in Darfur and her own impressions of her recent trip to the Sudan.
We share our colleagues’ assessments of the current state of affairs in Darfur and note the continuing generally stable situatio…
We thank Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga,
Special Representative of the Secretary-General; Mr. Smaïl Chergui, African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security; Mr. Koen Vervaeke, Managing Director for Africa of the European External Action Service; and Ambassadors Omar Hilale and Gbolié Ipo, the Perman…
