We thank the presidency of Mozambique for convening today’s open debate. We listened with interest to the statements by the briefers.
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of resolution 1265 (1999), which placed the protection of civilians at the centre of the Security Council’s attention. W…
On the whole, we are pleased with the results of the voting, which, beyond the numbers, demonstrated a watershed between those who seek the peaceful exploration of outer space and those who seek its militarization. Western countries are now essentially isolated in the Council, and that is symptomati…
We thank Tor Wennesland and Edem Wosornu for their survey of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory. We are also grateful to the delegations of Algeria and Slovenia for convening this meeting on the situation in the Gaza Strip, where the operation by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) — w…
At the outset, in my national capacity I would like to express my sincere condolences to the people and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran with regard to the enormous tragedy that befell that country — a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign M…
While listening to the zealous statement of the United States representative, we were not certain which draft resolution he was speaking about. Did he read the draft resolution (S/2024/383) that was submitted?
It is not the first time that the United States has accused Russia of attempting to place…
We all remember how, on 24 April here in the Chamber (see S/PV.9616), the United States, Japan and their allies were ultimately unable to explain the added value behind their draft resolution (S/2024/302) on the non-placement of weapons of mass destruction in outer space, which reaffirmed the obliga…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her briefing on the situation in Iraq in the context of the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). As this is her last briefing on Iraq at the Security Council, we would l…
Today we will hear a statement by the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Mr. Denis Bećirović. However, we should consider the statement in the context of the letter submitted by the Serbian member of the Presidency, Ms. Željka Cvijanović, and circulated among Security Council mem…
The position of the Russian Federation — that the politicized activities of the so-called International Criminal Court (ICC) are unacceptable — remains unchanged. Accordingly, we see no point to having a representative of the puppet institution, which openly serves the interests of Western States, …
In what now seems to be becoming a tradition, our Western colleagues gather us all here once a month for meetings on Ukraine, the sole purpose of which is to demonstrate the steadfast support of the collective West for the Zelenskyy regime, which is on the verge of complete collapse. These meetings …
We thank Mr. Hans Grundberg and Mr. Martin Griffiths for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen.
It pains us that the current events in the Middle East, in which forces from outside the region are involved in a far from constructive way, are hampering the process of Ye…
The General Assembly’s meetings convened in accordance with its resolution 76/262 on the consideration of instances of the use of the veto power in the Security Council can be divided into two types. One situation is when the use of the veto is conditioned by the acceptability or non-acceptability o…
Almost two weeks ago, on 18 April, we saw the United States again used its veto power to block Palestine’s application for United Nations membership. (see S/PV9609.) Left almost completely isolated, the American colleagues said they vetoed the Algerian draft resolution (S/2024/312) because they did …
We listened carefully to the statements delivered by our Security Council colleagues and have come to the
disappointing conclusion that our Western colleagues, first and foremost, the Western permanent members of the Council, unfortunately, have absolutely no interest in the stabilization around Bo…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his briefing, and we welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Ms. Željka Cvijanović, the Republika Srpska member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Mr. Marko Djurić, the Special Envoy of the President of Serbia.
Russia requested to…
We listened to the response of our colleague from the United Kingdom. He spoke about consistency. I would like to remind him that Nord Stream is a piece of international gas transit infrastructure, to which the provisions of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings appl…
The narrative of our Western partners and the statements that we heard today did not surprise us. To be frank, we did not expect anything less from them. But I would like to draw attention to the fact that many of them linked the conflict and the developments in Ukraine to the damage to the Nord Str…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča and Ms. Niyazberdiyeva for their briefings. We are grateful to Mr. Larry Johnson, the American political commentator, for his substantive statement.
Mr. Johnson, who has extensive experience in the area of counter-terrorism, including working for United St…
We would like to thank Special Envoy Pedersen, Director of Coordination Rajasingham of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Ms. Hayford for their briefings.
It has not been possible for the situation in Syria to improve for several years now. As we all know, our Wester…
Unfortunately, the Security Council has today failed to adopt a balanced decision in favour of
preserving space exclusively for peaceful purposes. That was the aim of the draft amendment proposed by Russia and China (S/2024/323), which was not adopted.
It is telling that neither during today’s mee…
