I know that the Russian representative expects me to respond, but we are not going to give any more air time to the lies that those present are hearing today. It is beneath the Security Council. There is only one aggressor here, and that is Russia. We hope that it will be able to find it in its cons…
I thank our briefers for their remarks this morning.
Russia asked the Security Council for today’s meeting for the sole purpose of lying and spreading disinformation and that is exactly what members have heard from the Russian Permanent Representative. Members also heard from Mrs. Nakamitsu that th…
I welcome you, Madam President, and thank you for convening us here today to discuss this critical issue. I would like to welcome all the ministers and other guests who have joined us here today, and it is also great to see so many women around the table at this event. I thank our briefers for their…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom and the briefers for their insightful and sobering presentations. Their reports provide a clear understanding of current developments and lack of progress in South Sudan and of the significant contributions that the United Nations Missio…
I thank Executive Director Russell at her first briefing to the Security Council. We welcome her to this setting. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Griffiths. Both their briefings were extraordinarily sobering, but we very much appreciate the work that they do. I also want to say that we are so a…
By the grace of God, the world narrowly averted a nuclear catastrophe last night. We all waited to exhale as we watched the horrific situation unfold in real time. I applaud the ability of the Ukrainian operators to keep all six reactors in safe conditions while under attack, and to report, as they …
On Friday night, we stood together outside this Chamber to declare that the Russian veto (see S/PV.8979) would not stop us from holding Russia accountable for invading a sovereign State — a State that dared to be a democracy. Russia vetoed Friday’s draft resolution (S/2022/155) but, as I have said b…
I am not going to respond to the atrocious lies, propaganda and disinformation that we have just heard from our Russian colleague. I have asked to take the floor for a different reason.
I have asked to take the floor to recall some of our members whose names may not have been heard earlier. Due to …
Not surprisingly, Russia exercised its veto power today in an effort to protect Russia’s premeditated, unprovoked, unjustified and unconscionable war in Ukraine. But let me make one thing clear: Russia can veto draft resolution S/2022/155, but it cannot veto our voices. It cannot veto the truth. It …
We are here today because of Russia’s unprovoked, unjustified, unconscionable war on Ukraine.
Let us never forget that this is a war of choice — Russia’s choice. Russia chose to invade its neighbour. Russia chose to inflict untold suffering on the Ukrainian people and its own citizens. Russia chos…
I thank Special Representative Hennis- Plasschaert for her briefing and ongoing leadership on this critical file. We truly appreciate the support of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to Iraq’s peace and stability.
I welcome the Permanent Representative of Iraq to today’s meetin…
In my remarks tonight, I said that we predicted Russia’s false flag attacks — the misinformation, the theatrical emergency meetings and the cyberattacks. But one piece had not come to pass. Unfortunately, while we have been meeting in the Security Council tonight, it appears that President Putin has…
We stand at a crossroads in the history of the General Assembly. On Monday, President Putin announced that Russia would recognize as independent States the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic regions, which are part of the sovereign territory of Ukraine that have been c…
I thank the Secretary-General for his strong stance and powerful remarks today before the General Assembly (see A/76/PV.58) and for his remarks tonight.
A few moments ago, I spoke to President Biden, who asked me to convey in the strongest possible terms his and our steadfast support for Ukraine an…
I would like to start by thanking Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ndiaye, African Union Special Representative Matondo and Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region Caholo for their comprehensive remarks. As Special Representative of the Secretary-…
Since the Second World War, the Charter of the United Nations Charter — the key tenets of which the Council is mandated to uphold — has stood as a bulwark to the worst impulses of empires and autocrats. Earlier today, Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, announced that Russia will recognize as “indep…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Helen La Lime for her briefing on the situation in Haiti and for the tireless work done by her and her team in Haiti. The United States commends the efforts of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) to help Haiti through this mos…
I had hoped that we would have heard from our Russian colleagues a response to Secretary Blinken’s call for Russia to announce today, without equivocation, that it does not plan to invade Ukraine. Instead, it was a continuation of the disinformation and rhetoric we have heard before and continue to …
Let me join others in welcoming you, Mr. President, to the presidency of the Security Council for this month, and I wish you the best success. I also want to take this opportunity to again thank Norway for a successful presidency during the month of January. I thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo a…
I cannot say that I am surprised by my Russian colleague’s comments, but I am disappointed.
I cannot let the false equivalency go unchecked. I therefore feel that I must respond.
Let me be clear: there are no plans to weaken Russia, as claimed by our Russian colleague today. On the contrary, we we…
