We would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Tom Fletcher, for their detailed briefings on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
We have been carefully following the situation in fr…
We thank Mr. Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov and Ms. Natalia Mirchevna Gherman for their substantive briefings on the activities of the departments they head. We highly commend the work of the Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. Russia stands ready to c…
From the outset, we would like to mention that we certainly share the view that sexual violence in conflict is a monstrous manifestation of cruelty and inhumanity that demands greater attention from the Security Council.
Nonetheless, it is important to remember that combating sexual violence is but…
We are grateful to Assistant Secretary-General, Ms. Martha Pobee, and the Interim Chairperson of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, Mr. George Aggrey Owinow. We also listened to the statement by Mr. Murithi Mutiga. We welcome the participation of the representative of Sout…
We welcome you, Mr. Minister, as President of today’s meeting. We would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Director of the Coordination Division and Head and Representative of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gene…
We are disappointed that the Panamanian presidency, ignoring requests from the majority of Security Council members, including the Russian Federation, for an extraordinary meeting to be convened immediately, decided to hold it only today, despite the extremely perilous developments in the occupied P…
We thank you, Mr. President, for your briefing, in your capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your appointment as Chair. We support the efforts of our Panamanian colleagues to …
We are grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his detailed briefing on the situation in the Gaza Strip and that of the remaining hostages in the enclave. We acknowledge the presence of Israeli Foreign Minister Mr. Gideon Saar. We listened closely to Mr. Ilay David and carefully r…
I would like to start by congratulating the Pakistani delegation on successfully completing its presidency and wish every success to the colleagues from Panama.
It is extremely regrettable that the work of the Security Council, including on the first day of Panama’s presidency, is becoming, through…
The Russian delegation requested today’s meeting to draw the attention of our colleagues in the Security Council to actions and statements that directly or indirectly undermine the prospects for a diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian crisis. Such destructive steps have recently become significantly …
We thank the delegation of Pakistan for convening the meeting today. We believe that it is a very timely meeting, especially in the light of the fact that the Secretariat is preparing a report on the review of United Nations peace operations. We listened carefully to the statements by Under-Secretar…
We are grateful to Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen and Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), for their comprehensive reports on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. It is clear from these reports that the …
I honestly must confess that when we learned about our Western colleagues’ request for today’s meeting on Ukraine, a fleeting thought came to mind: that it was prompted by the poignant letter from a group of Ukrainian political prisoners, which was addressed to the President of the Security Council …
We would like to thank the Pakistani presidency, in your person, Mr. Minister, for convening today’s meeting. We consider it very timely, in the light of, inter alia, the unprecedented spiral of violence in the greater Middle East region that we have seen recently. We are grateful to Assistant Secre…
We welcome your presidency, Sir, over the Security Council’s quarterly open debate on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, and we thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his comprehensive briefing.
Today in the Chamber, we are once again hearing extremel…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2787 (2025), on the situation in the Red Sea, submitted by our Greek and American colleagues.
This document is a direct continuation of notorious resolution 2722 (2024), which continues to raise serious concerns for us, especially with re…
We would like to thank Mr. Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, and Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their informative briefings. We also listened attentively to civil society representative Ms. Summer Nasser.
The situation in Yeme…
We would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his detailed briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory in the context of the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
Unfortunately, as made clear by Mr. Khiari’s briefing and the report of the Secretary-Gen…
Before I begin my statement, I would like to join those in this Chamber who extended congratulations on the International Day of Women in Diplomacy. Without women diplomats, it would be difficult to imagine the work of the United Nations and the Security Council in maintaining international peace an…
The Russian Federation ab stained in the voting on the resolution prepared by France and Greece (resolution 2780 (2025)) on the extension of the special inspections regime on the high seas off the coast of Libya so as to strengthen the effectiveness of the arms embargo on the country. We attach par…
