For six months now, the Security Council has been unable to adopt a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. All attempts were repeatedly thwarted by the opposition of the United States, which, in cold blood, used its veto in this Chamber on four occasions. In that time, we have heard a serie…
We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen and Ms. Msuya for their assessments of the military, political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
In addition to what we have heard, it is also clear to us that Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip are having an extremely negative impact on the situation in friendly Syria…
I will be very brief, Madam President, and I propose that we do not turn the Security Council into a duel between the United States and the Russian Federation. We have spoken repeatedly on this topic and will continue to address the situation in Ukraine. We have spoken on many occasions about what t…
I simply wish to respond to what was said by my colleague from the United States. He should be ashamed of comparing the situation in Ukraine to Gaza. They cannot be compared. First, contrary to what he said, the Russian Federation is not bombing the civilian population of Ukraine barbarically. It is…
I am grateful to the delegations of Algeria, Guyana, Slovenia and Switzerland for convening today’s meeting. We also thank the representatives of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations f…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Geir Pedersen and the head of Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Martin Griffiths, for their briefings.
Our meeting is taking place in the context of an unprecedented surge of violence in the Palestinian- Israe…
Today’s meeting, convened at the initiative of a number of Western delegations, evokes a sense of déjà vu. A year ago, in this same Chamber, the Maltese presidency put together a similar spectacle to mark the first-year anniversary of the start of our special military operation (see S/PV.9269). Euro…
I would like to say a few words on a point of order.
We are in a crowded Chamber. And not only is the Chamber crowded, but the list of speakers is also full of non-members of the Security Council who call themselves Ministers for Foreign Affairs of European Union (EU) countries. With rare exception…
I think that for anyone who is capable of an independent, unbiased analysis of the situation, it is obvious that the topic under discussion today at the General Assembly has nothing to do with reality and serves solely to promote a political agenda. The reality is that there are no temporarily occup…
We would like to thank the briefers for their objective assessments of the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip, particularly Mr. Lockyear’s direct, frank and chilling testimony. What more is there to add? He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Today’s meeting is taking place against the backdr…
Today we bear witness to another dark chapter in the history of the Security Council. It was again written by the delegation of the United States, which continues to pursue the same goal — to cover for its closest Middle East ally and stall for time as much as possible so that it can complete its in…
For the past five months, unprecedented violence has been unleashed in Gaza, the scale of which has surpassed any conflict faced by humankind since the Second World War. The civilian death toll has reached the shocking threshold of 30,000, and not all of the victims have been counted. During all tha…
It is our pleasure to welcome you, Sir, as the President of the Security Council. We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing, and we listened closely to the other briefers.
We have been provided with the opportunity today to discuss how it is that, in 2024, in some countries, the…
I do not intend to comment on the pseudo- legal interpretations of the decisions of the International Court of Justice provided by the representative of the Kyiv regime, who is sitting in the chair of the former Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic. I will just point out that it is very good that he …
We are once again struck by the duplicity of our Western colleagues and their awkward if unsurprising attempts to ignore inconvenient topics or facts even when they are obvious. Today the representative of the United Kingdom attempted to focus attention on the order on provisional measures issued by…
I think that what Mr. Sweeney just said is what we should have heard from the representative of the Secretariat who briefed us today, instead of empty speeches stuffed with hackneyed clichés.
We took the initiative of convening today’s meeting in order to remind everyone present of the consequences…
Today we heard cynical statements that we would not be sitting here if Russia had not started this war. No, if we had not started our special military operation, tragedies such as the one in Lysychansk would continue to happen every day, and that is exactly what was happening practically every day f…
We convened an urgent meeting of the Security Council in connection with the missile attack carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Lysychansk on Saturday, 3 February. As a result, the two-story building of a café and bakery was almost completely destroyed, and the ceilings between the floors …
We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing. We heard quite a lot of hubris from her, but we did not hear the main thing from her, of course — namely, a condemnation of the violation of international law by the United States and the United Kingdom.
We would lik…
We would like to thank Mr. Martin Griffiths for his objective assessment of the catastrophic situation
in the Gaza Strip. The Russian Federation supported Algeria’s initiative to convene today’s extraordinary meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone.…
