I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tadamichi Yamamoto for his briefing, as well as to express our full support for the important role played by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and all United Nations agencies in supporting Afghanistan an…
The delegation of Ukraine aligns itself with the statement delivered earlier by the representative of Malta on behalf of the European Union. We would also like to make some comments in our national capacity.
At the outset, my delegation welcomes the consensus that members reached today on resolutio…
I would like to begin by adding my sincerest words of thanks and paying tribute to our colleague Ambassador Samantha Power. I thank her for the opportunity and privilege to work with her over the past year. I appreciate that we were able to work so closely. I thank her for her convictions and strong…
I think you, Sir, for convening today’s open debate. I also appreciate the briefing by Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, which was very useful.
The Middle East peace process remains at the core of any efforts aimed at restoring regional stability. Ukraine consistently supports the Middle East peace process an…
I would also like to thank all of today’s briefers for their important input.
As we have all heard from the briefers, the humanitarian situation in the Lake Chad basin region is truly one of the most neglected in the world. So far, the international community has not had much success in resolving t…
The Ukrainian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2336 (2016) today for one reason, which is that it focuses on establishing a ceasefire regime. While numerous questions linger about the scope and substance of all the understandings reached in Ankara on 29 December, we support all efforts to pu…
The issue of the arms embargo in South Sudan has been the subject of intense debate in recent months. While it is a matter of urgency, some delegations continuously advocate second-chance diplomacy. Ukraine is all in favour of using diplomacy as the primary path towards the resolution of the conflic…
We appreciate the Secretary-General’s active stand on the issue, and we share the understanding of many States represented in the Chamber that the status quo in the Middle East leads only to further instability and makes the prospects of a two-State solution increasingly remote. Therefore, only proa…
Ukraine is appalled by the reports of mass atrocities and manhunt campaigns launched by the Syrian regime and its partners in crime. Just listen to those Syrians trapped in Aleppo who cry out,
“We are all praying for rain. When it rains the planes cannot fly and the bombardment stops for a short wh…
I would like to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, for the updates on her Office’s activities since June.
Ukraine remains deeply concerned about serious violations of international humanitarian law, indiscriminate killings and other crimes committed …
I thank Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson and Assistant Secretary-General Andrew Gilmour for their sound introductions to our debate.
My delegation believes that gross and flagrant human rights violations are the flip side of the nuclear ambitions and aggressive policy of Pyongyang, and theref…
Welcoming the progress reflected in the recent reports of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (see S/2016/670) and International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (see S/2016/669), my delegation considers today’s meeting and the forthcoming adoption of a reso…
More than 25 years ago, as a young diplomat I spoke for the first time from this very rostrum on this agenda item. Today, I would like to express our gratitude to the Secretariat and to the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea for the work done during the intervening years, including th…
For the first time in the Security Council, I was very glad to hear the Russian Federation make a comparison between Syria and Ukraine because that is the issue that we have tried to raise here in the Council since we joined. The methods used by the Russian Federation and its proxies in Donbas are e…
Ukraine commends the dedicated efforts of the delegations of Spain, New Zealand and Egypt. Ukraine voted in favour of the draft resolution (S/2016/1026), since we wholeheartedly hoped that it would have served the purpose of breaking the dangerous pattern of escalation in Syria and contribute to eas…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, and to the briefers.
Just recently, the Council had an important occasion and a prime opportunity to deliver our concerns directly to the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila. The political agreement of 18 October 2016 can be seen a…
I thank the delegations of the United Kingdom and France for initiating this emergency meeting, and the Senegalese presidency for organizing it. Let me also express thanks to our briefers for their remarkable yet sobering perspectives on the latest developments in Syria.
Emboldened by the military …
I thank the Secretary- General for his presence and for his strong position on the issue at hand.
Ukraine welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2321 (2016) and commends the efforts of those delegations that were involved in drafting and submitting the text. We consider the resolution to be …
I am sorry to take the floor again. First of all, I would like to highly recommend to my Russian colleagues to listen to the original language that I use in my statements. I did not mention Russia by name a single time. Likewise, in my statement, I never referred to Crimea, but since Crimea was ment…
I thank you, Sir, for convening this important debate. We also appreciate the very useful introductions made by the briefers. Ukraine aligns itself with the statement to be delivered later this morning by the observer of the European Union. In my national capacity, I would like to add the following.…
