We thank you, Mr. President, for presenting the draft oral decision to roll over the consideration of the issue of Security Council reform to the seventy- ninth session of the General Assembly. In our view, it adequately reflects the content of this year’s discussions on reform issues. Two documents…
We would like to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland,
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for the comprehensive overview of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We are also grateful to Dr. Louisa Baxter for her emotional and soberi…
We welcome your personal participation in the Council’s open debate on conflict prevention, Mr. President, and we thank all of today’s briefers for their assessments.
Needless to say, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, conflict prevention is one of the main tasks whereby the Secu…
We would like to thank the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Political Affairs for Libya and Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ms. Stephanie Koury, and the Permanent Representative of Japan, Mr. Kazuyuki Yamazaki, for their briefings.…
We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Director of Financing and Partnerships Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Lisa Doughten, for their briefings.
The situation in this Middle Eastern country remai…
We thank Rosemary DiCarlo, Under- Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Lisa Doughten, Director of the Financing and Partnerships Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their comprehensive briefings and their assessments of the situation in …
We thank you, Mr. President, and welcome your personal participation in the Security Council’s discussion today on the question of addressing the historical injustice surrounding the participation of African States in the work of the Council. We listened attentively to the briefings from the Secreta…
We thank Vladimir Voronkov and Natalia Gherman for their briefings on the activities of the Office on Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate in assisting States to combat the
terrorist threat. We greatly appreciate their work in that crucial area and will continue to full…
We would like to thank the Executive Director of UN-Women, Sima Bahous, the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Pobee, and Ms. Kholood Khair for providing information on and their assessments of the current situation with regard to the implementation of the women and peace and security ag…
We are grateful to Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. Stephen Omollo, Assistant Executive Director for Workplace and Management of the World Food Programme (WFP), for their briefings.
We agree with some of their …
When many of the Member States, having received an invitation to the pseudo-peace and pseudo- global get-together in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, in June, asked us for our opinion on that venture, we urged our colleagues not to harbour any illusions about the true intentions of its organizers. Those in…
I do not want to prolong our discussion, but I do want to point to the reliability of the information just cited by the representative of the Kyiv regime. According to recent surveys of the Ukrainian population, only 17 per cent of the people of Ukraine believe in the legitimacy of their President. …
Two years ago, the General Assembly adopted resolution 76/262 on the consideration of the cases of veto in the Security Council. It can be stated that during this time the resolution has not been able to prove its added value. That is not surprising, because it was conceived primarily as a vehicle …
We would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Salvador for her briefing about the situation in Haiti. We are grateful to the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Ms. Waly, and to Executive Director Catherine Russell. We welcome the Mini…
We regret that the Security Council once again today witnessed a completely shameless attempt by the United States to spread disinformation. The allegations that the Council was unable to call for the protection of humanitarian workers because Russia and China vetoed a flawed United States draft res…
We thank Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Edem Wosornu, for the briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. We have taken note of the brie…
The authors of the initiative enabling the General Assembly to discuss instances of the use of the right of the veto in the Security Council unquestionably envisaged it as a unique means of censure and to draw attention to alleged abuse by permanent members of the Security Council. Today, however, w…
What we just heard in the Chamber from our Western colleagues only strengthened our conviction that we took the right decision to not support the extension of the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006).
NATO members today have essentially dro…
First of all, I would like to thank all those who supported us in the voting today. There are many more of us, which means that our arguments are being heard. In addition, I cannot fail to note that today’s vote confirmed the point that we have been raising in the context of Security Council reform …
Very briefly, I want to thank my American colleague, who got overanxious for some reason, for illustrating that our Western colleagues are prepared to go back in history as much as they want, but only when they see fit. Otherwise, they are not prepared to do so.
