It may seem that the Security Council has convened to consider the routine matter of extending the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006). This mechanism is supposed to assist the work of the Committee to ensure the effectiveness of the restri…
We have already set out in detail our fundamental concerns about the approach taken by the French delegation on 25 March with regard to the Security Council meeting that we requested on the twenty-fifth anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia, under the agenda item “Threats to internatio…
I would like to start today with a number of quotations.
Yesterday in this Chamber, commenting on the Security Council’s adoption of resolution 2728 (2024), the Permanent Representative of the United States said, “we fully support some of the critical objectives in this non-binding resolution.” (S/…
The request of a member of the Council to call a meeting of the Council on the subject that that member asks to discuss is not the subject of consensus-based discussions. I would like to remind the representative of France of that. In any case, I think, now is not the time for a dialogue on procedur…
Yesterday the delegation of France, when discussing the Security Council meeting that we had requested to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, set a procedural precedent when it insisted that the Council take all decisions regarding the holding of meetings onl…
It is not the first time, Madam President, that I have had to express regret over the decisions you have made today.
We requested the convening of a meeting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of NATO’s aggression against sovereign Yugoslavia, the consequences of which continue to adversely affect the …
We regret the fact that you, Madam President, put to the vote a question that was different from the one that should have been. However, if the members of the Security Council are not ready to support the holding of the meeting we requested for 3 p.m. on 25 March, today, under the agenda item “Threa…
Russia voted in favour of resolution 2728 (2024), submitted by the 10 non-permanent members of the Security Council. It is of fundamental importance that the Security Council is, for the first time, demanding that the parties observe an immediate ceasefire, even if it is limited to the month of Rama…
I do not know what the United States representative means when he says they “were rebuffed”. Yes, we had arguments about this meeting. That happens about other meetings too, but it does not lead to such an inappropriate reaction as the one we are witnessing today in this Chamber.
I apologize to the representative of France, but the statement that we did not consult the representatives of Serbia is, at the very least, misleading, to put it mildly. I have here a letter to the Permanent Mission of Serbia with regard to the participation of the Acting
Prime Minister of Serbia i…
You are now steering the deliberations in the Chamber, Madam President, and we can only expect that you will correctly formulate the question to be put to a vote. Doing so is your right, and we cannot take it away from you. We can only comment on the decisions that you are making, and we will commen…
In that case, according to the interpretation of Permanent Representative De Rivière, all of the letters about holding meetings are meaningless, as is the programme of work.
I would like to recall for your benefit, Madam President, that you confirmed the holding of this meeting, as did the Security Council Affairs Division.
That is not what I said. What I said is that the ruling to convene the meeting has been made. What we are calling into question is not the agenda for the meeting today, but rather the holding of the meeting itself. Therefore, the question that needs to be formulated is — Who is against the holding o…
We are extremely stunned and disappointed about the way the work was done on draft resolution S/2024/254 over the past 24 hours. It was a little more than an hour before the meeting when we learned that the word “permanent” in operative paragraph 1, relating to the ceasefire, was to be replaced by w…
We would like to express our principled disagreement with France’s attempt to challenge the convening of the Security Council meeting requested by Russia on the issue of the twenty-fifth anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia.
These days the entire world is remembering the victims of t…
We just now listened to hypocritical statements from a number of members of the Council, shedding crocodile tears over the Russian and Chinese vetoes. We explained the reasons why we did not allow the adoption of draft resolution S/2024/239. By no means is it because it was put forward by the United…
We wish to thank our briefers. We consider it very timely to gather in the Chamber again to discuss the issue of the continuing deliveries of Western arms and military equipment to Ukraine and the implications of that situation for the search for a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis. That is …
