We thank Mr. Volker Perthes, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan, for briefing us on developments in the Sudan. We listened carefully to the statement delivered by Ms. Hala Alkarib and welcome the Permanent Representative of the Sudan to this meeting.
The internal politica…
We thank Ireland, which this year has the honour of hosting the annual debate on peacekeeping reform, for drawing attention to the important topic of transition in peacekeeping operations. We thank the Secretary-General for his informative briefing and for the special focus he placed on the key role…
We welcome the briefings by the representatives of The Elders at today’s Security Council meeting. No one can doubt the need to strengthen the multilateral foundations of international relations or the importance of protecting and developing them at the world’s central global negotiating platform, n…
Given that today’s meeting of the Security Council is the first open-format meeting in September, I would like to start by thanking the delegation of India for presiding over the Security Council in August and by wishing Ireland every success as President of the Council this month.
September — this…
We welcome Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s personal participation in today’s meeting. We also thank Tor Wennesland for his informative briefing.
We are watching with concern the continued tension in the Palestinian territories, in particular in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. The risk…
We would like to welcome you, Sir, as Foreign Secretary of India, to the President’s chair.
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2592 (2021), on extending the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, put forward by the United Kingdom. At the same time, and similar to what was s…
At the outset, I cannot but echo the condolences to all victims and casualties of the terrible terrorist attacks in Kabul, which were clearly carried out by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
We thank Secretary-General António Guterres for his assessments of the developments in northern Ethi…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her briefing on the situation in Iraq. We also welcome the presence of the representative of Iraq at today’s meeting.
We are closely following the changes taking place in the friendly country of Iraq, …
We are grateful to our briefers today, Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Martin Griffiths and Henrietta Fore, for the information that they provided.
We are concerned about the continuing escalation of violence in Yemen. Reports indicate an increase in the number of Yemeni deaths in Ma’rib province as a resul…
We are grateful to Mr. James Swan, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Francisco Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia and Head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), for their traditionally informative briefing…
We appreciate the holding of today’s event. We thank the former Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), Ambassador Edrees of Egypt, and Ambassador Robert Rae of Canada for their comprehensive briefings and energetic efforts in guiding the work of the Commission.
United Nations peacebuilding is…
We thank Mr. Atul Khare, Under-Secretary- General for Operational Support, for his briefing on the drawdown and withdrawal of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). We note the work of the Secretariat and the personal contribution of Mr. Khare to that complex task.
We…
We have taken note of the statements of the speakers at today’s meeting.
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the President of Angola, Mr. João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, as well as the representative of the Republic of the Congo, who read out a statement by the President of the Econo…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Nicholas Haysom for his briefing on the developments in the situation in South Sudan. We welcome Mr. Haysom in his first briefing to the Council. We sincerely wish him every success at the head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNM…
I should like to respond, first and foremost, to the statement delivered by the representative of the United States of America, the tone of which was more bellicose and aggressive towards Russia than the remarks of the majority of our European colleagues. Perhaps because the United States of America…
We are grateful to Mr. François Louncény Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for his update on the situation in the Central African subregion.
Russia has always supported the activity of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa as
an important instrument of prevent…
Today we pay tribute to the late President of the Republic of Chad, His Excellency Mr. Idriss Déby Itno.
President Déby was a prominent African statesman who was highly respected in his own country and abroad. During his tenure as Head of State, he made a significant contribution to the socioeconom…
I thank you, Mr. President, for allowing me to take the floor again. I will be brief.
As the Permanent Representative of Germany called on my delegation and other delegations to carefully
read resolution 75/90, I would ask him to listen more carefully to our explanation of vote.
It would appear t…
The Russian Federation places particular importance on the consideration by the General Assembly of the situation in Afghanistan. Traditionally, we support the adoption of a truly consensus-based draft resolution, the text of which not only takes into account current events but also reflects the con…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting.
At the outset, we would like to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Poland and Qatar on their appointments as co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations on the reform of the Security Council. We hope that their actions will …
