At the outset, I wish to congratulate Sierra Leone on assuming the presidency of the Council for the month of August. I pledge China’s support for your work, Mr. President. I would also like to thank the Russian Federation for skilfully steering the work of the Council in July. I listened carefully …
I welcome the presence of the Foreign Minister of the Central African Republic, Her Excellency Ms. Baipo Temon.
In recent years, the Central African Republic has registered steady progress in political and peace processes and achieved positive development in improving governance capacity, promoting…
I thank Acting Special Representative Swan and Special Representative Souef for their briefings, and I welcome the Permanent Representative of Somalia to this meeting.
At the outset, China congratulates Somalia on its election as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for 2025–2026. As Soma…
I thank Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary- General Stephanie Koury for her briefing and welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Libya at today’s meeting.
I would like to make the following points.
First, dialogue and consultation represent the only way out of the polit…
China voted in favour of the resolution on the situation in El Fasher just adopted by the Security Council (resolution 2736 (2024)).
The recent escalation of the situation in El Fasher and other locations has resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilians being caught in the crossfire. The developm…
I wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Abarry, and President Da Piedade Veríssimo for their briefings.
For some time now, countries in Central Africa have vigorously advanced their political processes and achieved significant progress in pursuing peace and develop…
I listened attentively to the briefing by Prosecutor Karim Khan. I welcome the presence of the Permanent Representative of Libya, Ambassador El-Sonni, at today’s meeting.
China’s position on the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Libya remains unchanged. The case currently before the…
First of all, on behalf of the Permanent Mission of China, I would like to commend the Permanent Representative of Malta and her team for successfully steering the Council’s work in April. I congratulate Mozambique on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. China wil…
China associates itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Venezuela delivered on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations.
The world today is in turmoil and chaos, with diminishing peace, development, security and governance amid widespread …
As a major troop-contributing country to the United Nations
Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), China has always actively participated in the work of the Mission and remains committed to making greater contributions to the realization of lasting peace and stability in South Sudan. China supports UNMI…
I thank Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo, Director Edem Wosornu and High Representative Mohamed Ibn Chambas for their briefings and welcome the representative of the Sudan to today’s meeting.
The conflict in the Sudan has been grinding on for a year, with the fighting affecting the capital…
I thank Special Representative Bathily and Ambassador Kazuyuki Yamazaki, Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya, for their briefings, and I welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Libya in this meeting.
Recently, the parties in L…
I thank Secretary-General António Guterres for his briefing. I look forward to hearing the statements to be made by the Permanent Representatives of Iran, Israel and Syria on the evolving situation.
Since the Gaza conflict began, the international community has deplored the unacceptable humanitaria…
China, together with Algeria and Russia, voted on 22 March against draft resolution S/2024/239, on the situation in Gaza, submitted by the United States. China’s decision was based on the need to uphold international justice, the purposes and dignity of the Charter of the United Nations and the resp…
I thank Algeria, Guyana and Slovenia for the initiative to convene today’s meeting and thank the two briefers for their briefings.
It has been six months since the conflict in Gaza erupted. More than 33,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives in the fighting with millions more struggling in de…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her briefing. I have listened attentively to the statement by Ms. Jacquie-Anna. I welcome the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda to this meeting.
Over the past period, the eastern part…
I thank the representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme for their briefings. I welcome the presence of the representative of the Sudan at today’s meeting.
As the briefers noted, …
China would like to thank Ms. Karin Landgren and Ambassador Yamazaki Kazuyuki for their briefings. We also thank non-Security Council members for their interest and active participation in this meeting.
Working methods speak to our way of thinking. The Council’s working methods reflect how we perce…
China voted in favour of the resolution (resolution 2724 (2024)), which we have just voted on, calling for a cessation of hostilities during the month of Ramadan by the parties to the conflict in the Sudan.
It has been almost a year since the outbreak of the conflict in the Sudan. It has led to hea…
China abstained in the voting on resolution 2725 (2024) and wishes to very briefly elaborate on our position as follows.
China has always insisted on the fact that the Security Council should take a prudent and responsible approach to sanctions. We emphasize that sanctions are only a means to an en…
