We would like to thank Ms. Sigrid Kaag, the Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, for her briefing and her efforts to find ways to enhance the delivery of humanitarian relief to Gaza in accordance with resolution 2720 (2023). As the Council is aware, we abstained in the voting…
Today the Security Council is once again involved in a rogue show staged by the United States and confronted with cynical forgery and deception, this time promoted by the American and Japanese authors of the draft resolution that is being put to the vote (S/2024/302). At first glance, it looks harml…
We listened to today’s briefers. We believe that linking the topic of preventing conflict-related sexual violence to demilitarization and arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, under the agenda item of women and peace and security agenda, is artificial and diverts attention from truly impo…
We are disappointed that the Chairperson-in- Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta, Mr. Borg, instead of implementing the direct mandate that was entrusted to him by the organization’s 57 participati…
We thank the Secretary-General for his briefing.
For seven months now, the Middle East has been engulfed in a violent conflict that has already claimed the lives of more than 34,000 civilians in Gaza. The escalation is spiralling daily, spreading to other countries of the region, over which the thr…
This day could have gone down in history as a day when, after three quarters of a century, the international community at last made the right choice on the path towards correcting the many years of historical injustice done to Palestine and the legitimate aspirations of its heroic people. Because it…
We thank today’s briefers.
The Russian Federation has consistently attached high priority to regional security issues. We understand the objective interests of Malta, as well as of other States of the region, in discussing issues related to security in the Mediterranean. However, to be honest, it i…
We thank Mr. Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), for his briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories in the context of UNRWA’s activities. His assessments are extremely worrisome…
Today, in this Chamber, a set of paratroopers from European Union countries have parachuted into this meeting so that they can parade in front of the cameras and be shown on their national news programmes in their respective countries. I ask again, what is the added value of the statements of the re…
We have listened carefully to the statement made by the Secretary-General. We also noted the Secretary-General’s immediate public reaction condemning Iran’s actions yesterday. It is regrettable that, unlike in today’s meeting, the Secretary-General did not propose to brief the Council on 2 April, wh…
For some reason, I do not see our colleagues from the European Union who usually sign up in droves for meetings on Ukraine that are convened at the request of our Western partners.
For at least 10 years, there has been an ongoing methodological influx of Western weapons to the Kyiv regime. At first…
We understand perfectly well that the only reason for convening today’s Council meeting is the desire of the Kyiv regime’s Western sponsors to keep the Ukrainian issue afloat in the Security Council, accompanied by the requisite optics. That requires a condemnation of the strikes carried out by the …
On 28 March (see S/PV.9591), the Russian Federation voted against draft resolution S/2024/255, proposed by the United States, on extending the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006), concerning sanctions on the Democratic Peop…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ruiz, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for the comprehensive briefing. We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia in this meeting.
Colombia remains largely a unique and inspiring example. Its Government not only …
Some minutes ago, we witnessed an attempt at cynical and unscrupulous manipulation on the part of our United States colleagues. In his statement, the representative of the United States emphasized that the call to protect humanitarian aid workers was contained in the United States draft resolution t…
We would like to thank Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of Coordination of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Ms. Janti Soeripto, civil society representative, for their briefings about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where, despite…
We listened carefully to the briefing by Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari, and we took note of the remarks by the Director from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Lisa Doughten.
We regret that today, owing to the open format of this meeting, pushed through by the info…
We thank the delegation of Malta for having organized today’s briefing. We thank Ms. Gamba de Potgieter, Mr. Chaiban and Ms. Niger-Thomas for their contributions to our discussion.
Access to humanitarian assistance is often the path to life in situations of armed conflict. In accordance with intern…
We listened attentively to today’s statements by the three Western permanent members of the Security Council and were once again struck by their cynicism and double standards. From their narrative today, one could hardly figure out why we have gathered here today.
The representative of France said …
We have taken note of the factual briefing by Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari on the latest in a series of attacks by Israel against the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic. At the same time, we find it strange that a representative of the Secretariat is using such terms as “rules-based …
