We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Lacroix for his thorough briefing. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the military, police and civilian personnel of United Nations peacekeeping missions for their unwavering commitment to fulfilling their noble duty in extremely difficult and …
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General El-Ghassim Wane and Ms. Beatrice Abouya for their briefings.
We carefully read the letter of the Secretary- General (S/2023/611) regarding the modalities for the drawdown the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in…
We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, for providing an overview of the political situation in the country. We also listened carefully to Ms. Alkanawati, who long ago lost her connection to Syria. I think it would probably be hard to find something further …
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, and the Permanent Representative of Japan, Mr. Kimihiro Ishikane, for their briefings. We also listened to the briefer from civil …
We thank Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Based on what we have heard, it is clear that the ongoing lack of a resolution to the Palestinian issue continues to provoke regul…
Today, we once again witness a brazen attempt by the Western countries on the Security Council and the United States presidency to use the Council to advance their own self-serving, politicized agenda. This meeting is in no way linked to developments on the ground and was not initially included in t…
We thank today’s briefers, and Mr. Haiphong in particular, for his brave testimony as a representative of civil society. His position is shared by many Europeans and Americans whose voices, however, are nowhere to be found in Western media.
For three months now we have been witnessing the death thr…
We thank the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Wosornu, for her briefing.
We are concerned about the continuing blockade of the Lachin corridor. Measures on the ground are now needed more than ever to de-escalate the situation surrou…
We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Eden Wosornu, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. We also listened to M…
I thank United Nations Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator Reena Ghelani for her briefing. We also listened to the representatives of non-governmental organizations who were proposed as briefers by the United States.
The topic of today’s meeting — combating hunger — is unquestionably extre…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2694 (2023), prepared by our British colleagues, on the expansion of the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia. We believe this is a very timely decision of the Council, as it comes on the eve of the full entry into force …
As my colleagues have probably calculated, in July, the Security Council, under the British presidency, has already discussed various aspects of the Ukraine topic four times. Furthermore, this issue was also discussed in the General Assembly this month. I would therefore ask what the added value is …
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
The unresolved Palestinian question was and has continued to be a major source of tension in the Middle East. Regular outbreaks of violence not …
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on the draft resolution prepared by France to extend the sanctions regime in respect of the Central African Republic. During work on this document, we clearly outlined our position that the Security Council must, at long last, respond to the repeated an…
I will not hide our extreme disappointment and bewilderment about the attempts by a number of Western delegations to capitalize on the huge tragedy that took place this week, the considerable damage inflicted on the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour in the city of Odesa, and to attribu…
We thank Ms. Nihal Saad and Mr. Yan Taksyur for their briefings.
First of all, I would like to reiterate, as I have done before, that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church did not ask us to convene today’s meeting and did not authorize us to speak on its behalf. Nor are we speaking on behalf of the Ukraini…
Today is a historic and extremely unfortunate day for the Security Council and the entire international community. We have seen the blocking of the participation of a representative of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church at this meeting. Western delegations have therefore effectively openly demonstrated s…
I do not recall hearing that some kind of quota had been established for invitations to civil-society representatives. Once again, I repeat, we are acting fully in line with your presidency’s programme, which was proposed to us all, to which we all agreed, and which was to facilitate the greatest po…
Before we begin our work, I would like to take this opportunity to voice our principled disagreement with the presidency’s approach to inviting briefers to today’s meeting under rule 39.
Russia requested today’s meeting — and did so on 16 July — to discuss a very important and sensitive issue, whi…
We thank Special Envoy Pedersen and Director of Coordination at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Mr. Rajasingham, for their reports on the political and humanitarian aspects of the situation in Syria.
Today the situation on the ground in our friendly co…
