At the outset, I would like to thank Special Representative Patten for her briefing.
Women are one of the most vulnerable groups. Their rights and interests are the most easily violated. As such, they are most in need of protection. China condemns all forms of sexual violence against
women in arme…
First of all, I would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Khaled Khiari and Ms. Lisa Doughten for their briefings.
As the Ukraine crisis drags on, the aggravated attacks and civilian casualties have continued and the humanitarian situation has worsened. Today’s briefings once again demonstr…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Otunbayeva for her briefing and Ms. Gailani for her statement.
In the two and a half years since the interim Administration took office, the domestic situation in Afghanistan has been generally stable, with improvement in the economy and peopl…
Almost five months after the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, the Security Council’s call for a ceasefire has been forcefully blocked by the United States for a fourth time, which China finds extremely disappointing. The result of the Security Council’s vote clearly shows that the vast majority of Cou…
I welcome His Excellency Mr. Álvaro Leyva Durán, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, to this meeting and thank Special Representative Ruiz Massieu for his briefing. I also listened carefully to the statement by Ms. Perea Mosquera.
Over the past year, all parties in Colombia have worked togeth…
I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Ms. Wosornu for their briefings.
The Ukrainian crisis continues to drag on. Vicious attacks and civilian casualties occur frequently, and the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate. China is deeply alarmed and saddened by that. We call on the par…
The current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been going on for more than three months now. Gaza is enduring an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, with innocent civilians losing their lives every day in an ever-worsening situation. The international community has been making a unive…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate France on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. You and your colleagues, Mr. President, can count on the full cooperation of the Chinese delegation. I would also like to congratulate Ecuador on the successful completion of its presidency of the …
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing.
Yesterday, at the request of Albania and some other members, the Security Council held an emergency meeting to consider the civilian casualties resulting from the conflict in Ukraine. Today, at the request of the Russian Federation, we ar…
I thank the briefers for their briefings.
More than 80 days have passed since the outbreak of this round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and more than 2 million innocent people in Gaza have been plunged into an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. That is in spite of the fact that both the …
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his briefing.
The Ukraine crisis has continued to drag on with sporadic and destructive attacks. The war has exacted heavy casualties among innocent civilians, and many major civilian objects have been destroyed in the conflict, which China find…
In March, the Security Council mandated the Secretary- General to conduct an independent assessment to promote coordinated positions and actions by the international community on Afghanistan. China thanks the Special Coordinator and his team for their work. We are of the view that the recommendation…
I thank Special Representative Otunbayeva and all the other briefers for their briefings.
As the year draws to a close, a year-end review of the Afghan issue will help us to summarize the experiences and lessons learned and start next year off right. Over the past year, the Afghan de facto authorit…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing, and I welcome the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea to this meeting.
At present, the Korean peninsula is witnessing ongoing tensions and intensified confrontation. That is not…
At the outset, I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo; Ambassador Skoog, the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations; and Ambassador Frazier, the Permanent Representative of Malta, for their briefings.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is an important outcom…
Afghanistan is at a critical stage of peaceful reconstruction. The international community needs to maintain its attention and commitment, strengthen constructive engagement with the Afghan authorities and help Afghanistan to emerge from its humanitarian plight, improve its economy and livelihoods, …
China thanks President Gatti Santana and Prosecutor Brammertz for their briefings.
In accordance with Security Council resolutions, the Mechanism should be a small, temporary and efficient structure, whose functions and size will diminish over time. During the reporting period, the Mechanism advanc…
I thank the briefers for their briefings.
It is in no one’s interest to prolong and complicate the Ukraine issue. Over the past year, the military spending of the countries concerned has increased dramatically reaching record levels.
At the same time, more than 700 million people are threatened by…
I thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and Director Rajasingham for their briefings.
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine has witnessed the massive destruction of large-scale infrastructure, and the progress on repairing it has been slow. Recently, Ukraine, Russia and other Black Sea countries experien…
The oceans are the cradle of civilizations, a bond connecting nations around the world and an important platform for development. They are the common home of all humankind. The protection and sustainable use of the oceans is the shared responsibility and common goal of the international community. W…
