Today we are witnessing, for the second time, how the French delegation, under artificial pretexts and manipulating the procedure, is attempting to block a meeting requested by Russia on the topic of the twenty-fifth anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia.
At the outset, let me recall …
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Bintou Keita, for her briefing. We listened very closely to Ms. Jacquie-Anna. We welcome the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda to this meeting.
We note with regret the fact that the secu…
As we said yesterday (see S/PV.9588 and S/PV.9589), on 25 March (see S/PV.9587) the delegation of France set a procedural precedent regarding a Security Council meeting requested by our delegation on the twenty-fifth anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia by insisting that the Council s…
We thank Mr. José Javier De La Gasca, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) and Permanent Representative of Ecuador, for his comprehensive report on the work of this subsidiary body of the Council over the past year and its plans for the near future. We support the ef…
As we said this morning before the meeting on the situation in the Middle East (see S/PV.9588), yesterday during a discussion (see S/PV.9587) about the Security Council meeting that we requested on the twenty-fifth anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia, the French delegation expressed …
We thank Secretary-General António Guterres and the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Mr. Robert Floyd, for their briefings. We also listened very carefully to the Programme Director at the Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Ms. Gaukhar…
Before I begin my statement, I would like to put on record our principled disagreement with the approach adopted by the Japanese presidency in connection with the invitation extended to delegations to participate in this meeting in accordance with rules 37 and 39. There are six delegations, which is…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Edem Wosornu, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in the country.
We are deeply…
The topic of our meeting today — cooperation between the United Nations and the European Union (EU) — cannot be viewed separately from the current state of the European Union. The European project, which began as an integrating economic union designed to help to heal the wounds left by the Second Wo…
Today the entire world commemorates a great holiday — International Women’s Day. As everyone knows, in our country, since as early as the times of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, we have laid a solid foundation for actual — not merely claimed — equality and equal professional opportunities…
In General Assembly plenaries, each fresh incident of the United States using its veto in the Security Council on Gaza is increasingly distressing. It seems that we are not living in the real world, but rather in some surreal, nightmarish parallel universe.
For the fourth time now, the United Natio…
Russia, like a number of other colleagues on the Council, has repeatedly said that considering the subject of the Syrian chemical file once every three months is more than enough. On that subject, we have not seen any developments in the situation on the ground for a long time. That is also confirme…
We thank Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), and Ambassador Yamazaki Kazuyuki, Permanent Representative of Japan, for their briefings.
We have been following the development of events in o…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Edem Wosornu, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in the country. Of course, as we have …
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Caroline Ziadeh for her briefing on the situation in Kosovo and the information she provided and welcome the participation of President Aleksandar Vučić of Serbia in today’s meeting. We listened to the views of Mr. Kurti. We are grateful to th…
We are grateful to Ms. Jeanine Hennis- Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, for her briefing on the situation in Iraq in the context of the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
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I was not going to comment on the Ukrainian statement, which turned out to be totally paranoid and delusional, as usual. Let me just say that my colleague seems to have been indoctrinated to continue lying and covering up for the Kyiv regime. The lists were published and brought to the notice of the…
We welcome the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who are participating in today’s meeting, as well as the Permanent Representatives of Saint Lucia and Kenya. We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. María Isabel Salvador, and the Executive Di…
In order to conclude our procedural exchange with you, Mr. President, let me just briefly highlight that the “work” that you mentioned, despite its significance, plays no role within the Security Council. It is not part of the Charter of the United Nations or of the Security Council’s rules of proce…
I want to be clear in what I am saying so that the French delegation has no illusions, I will try to voice my statement in French, their native language.
(spoke in French)
We would like to express our indignation with regard to the biased position of the French presidency on the convening of the e…
