Can I start by thanking you, Mr. President, for organizing this debate. I also congratulate you on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month. I would also like to join colleagues in welcoming Ambassador De Rivière to the Security Council and bidding a fond farewell to Amba…
Obviously, again and as we have often said in the Council, there are far too many inaccuracies in the Syrian representative’s statement to go into any detail, but since he mentioned us I wanted to speak in reply to remind him that we were given the floor to speak on a point of order yesterday (see S…
For the record, then, the answer is that we should trust the information from Russian intelligence about strikes on rebel-held territory, but when the information is provided by independent experts of the United Nations, we should not trust it.
My Ambassador has apologized for the fact that she had to leave the meeting and has asked me just to make a couple of final points on the substance of the issue at hand today, as opposed
to some of the extraneous points that have been brought up by some speakers. My points refer back to the strikes…
