Given that this is the last Security Council meeting in December — with the exception of the upcoming vote today — I would like to pay tribute to the efforts of the Ecuadorian presidency which, despite the extremely turbulent situation in the Council, has been able to decisively carry out its funct…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Geir Pedersen, and the Director for the Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization Division in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Ms. Doughten, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian sit…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Mr. Bathily, and the Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan, who spoke in his capacity as representative of the Chair of the Committee established pursuant …
We thank Under-Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu, Deputy Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research Cécile Aptel and Executive Director of the Women’s Institute
for Alternative Development Folade Mutota, for their briefings.
The situation in the world clearly demonstrates th…
We thank Mr. Ebo and Ms. Wright for their detailed briefings on the current situation with regard to the West’s supplies of arms to the Kyiv regime.
To describe the situation in Ukraine briefly, things are unfolding exactly as we have been predicting for months. Support for the anti-popular Ukraini…
I think it would be no exaggeration to say that this day is one of the darkest in the history of the Middle East. By once again cynically blocking a call for a ceasefire in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, our colleagues from the United States have literally, before our eyes, issued a death se…
We would like to thank Secretary-General Guterres for his frank assessment of the disastrous situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone. Given the current circumstances, we take note of his entirely appropriate decision to invoke Article 99 of the Charter of the United Nations to draw the at…
For two months now, the Security Council has been unable to fulfil its function of maintaining international peace and security and to demand an end to the bloodshed in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. There is only one reason for this: the hard- headed, selfish and destructive posit…
We thank the delegation of Ecuador for convening today’s Security Council meeting. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General, António Guterres, for his informative statement on such an important issue. We would also like to thank Executive Director Waly of the United Nations Office on Drugs and …
Before I begin my statement, I would like to reiterate our fundamental disagreement with the excessive number of delegations invited to today’s meeting under rules 37 and 39. We believe the best and
most logical approach would have been to allow two of them, Ukraine and the European Union (EU), as …
We thank the Permanent Representative of Kuwait, Mr. Tareq Albanai, and the Permanent Representative of Austria, Mr. Alexander Marschik, for their able leadership of the negotiation process during the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly. We trust that the co-facilitators will continue th…
The Russian Federation supported the United Kingdom’s resolution extending the sanctions regime with respect to Yemen (resolution 2707 (2023)). In our view, the decision for a technical rollover of the respective restrictions for 12 months is the best way to preserve the necessary momentum to find a…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2703 (2023), prepared by the United States on the extension of the mandate the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) because not a single one of our principled and properly substantiated comments, including …
We thank Mr. Adedeji Ebo, Deputy to the High Representative of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, for his report. Special thanks go to the representative of American civil society, Mr. Randy Credico, who shared not only the questions that many Americans have for their leadership in t…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, and the Permanent Representative of Japan, Mr. Kimihiro Ishikane, for their briefings.
First and foremost, I would like to express my sinc…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her briefing on the situation in Iraq and confirm our unwavering support for the work of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). We listened carefully to civil society repr…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2698 (2023), prepared by France and Malta, which gives the European Union (EU) a mandate to conduct the European Union Naval Force Mediterranean Operation IRINI to counter the smuggling of migrants and human trafficking.
Yesterday’s brief…
We thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and the Permanent Representative of Gabon, in his capacity as Chair of the of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for their briefings…
We thank Special Envoy of the Secretary- General Geir Pedersen and Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings, and we listened attentively to the statement delivered by Ms. Jarbawi.
We remain convinced that t…
We thank Mr. Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, for his briefing on the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh. We note the participation in the meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
On 19 September, there was a sharp escalation of the mi…
