We thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and Ms. Tetteh, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, for their informative briefings. We welcome the participation of the representatives of the Sudan and South Sudan in this meeting.
As the report of the Secretary-General (S/2023/7…
The Russian Federation supported the Security Council resolution to renew the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) (resolution 2705 (2023)), prepared by our British colleagues.
Somalia is now at an extremely important stage in its modern history. Contrary to all of th…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Valentine Rugwabiza, for her
briefing. We welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Francophonie and Central Africans Abroad of the Central African Republic, Ms. Sylvie Valérie Baipo Temon, to this meeting.
At the outset, we would l…
We welcome your participation, Mr. Minister, at today’s meeting. We would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General María Isabel
Salvador for her briefing on the situation in the country and her work in the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH). We listened closely t…
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Catriona Laing and the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and Head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), Mr. Mohamed El-Amine Souef, for their briefings. We welcome to toda…
We thank Mr. Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, and Mr. João Samuel Caholo, Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), for their briefings. We have also listened carefully to Ms. Joséphine Malimukono.
The situati…
We wish to thank Mr. Parfait Onanga- Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (AU), Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the AU to the United Nations, and the civil society representative for their briefings.
We…
We thank Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for her assessments of the situation in the country. The Russian Federation supports the activities of UNAMA under her leadership within the framewo…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Edem Wosornu, for their briefings. We also listened to the
briefing by the representative of South Sudanese …
We are grateful to Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and to the Permanent Representative of Ghana, Mr. Harold Agyeman, in his capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005), …
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee and the Director of Operations and Advocacy in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Edem Wosornu, for their updates on the situation in the Sudan. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representat…
We are grateful to the Under-Secretary- General for Peace Operations, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, and the respective Force Commanders of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, Lieutenant General Subramanian; the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Con…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Mr. Leonardo Simão, as well as the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mr. Omar Touray, for their briefings.
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We have listened to the briefing by Mr. Khaled Khiari. We note again that neither in today’s briefing nor yesterday’s statement by the Secretary- General was there any mention of a number of factors that have a direct impact on the situation around the Korean peninsula.
Russia has consistently oppo…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. We also listened carefully to the Resident Coordinator for Yemen, Mr. David Gressly.
The situatio…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2690 (2023), prepared by the French delegation, on the withdrawal of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
We think it is important that the Council responded unanimously to the request of Mali, w…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2687 (2023), prepared by our British colleagues, on the extension of the mandates of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and the United Nations Support Office for Somalia (UNSOS) for six months.
We fully support the work of Af…
We wish to thank the Assistant Secretary- General for Africa, Ms. Martha Pobee. We note the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
We wish to begin our statement with an expression of condolences to the Democratic Republ…
We welcome President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s participation in today’s meeting and thank him for his statement to the Council at this critically important time for his country, Somalia. We would like to thank Ms. Catriona Laing, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and Head of …
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, and the interim Chairperson of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, Mr. Charles Tai Gituai, for their briefings. We are also grateful to Mr. Marco Impagliazzo, President of the Community of Sa…
