We are not surprised by the downright weak arguments which were put forward by the United States and the United Kingdom today in an attempt to justify their aggression. After all, they simply do not have any other arguments, nor could there be any. Let me underscore that there is no legal basis for …
We thank Under-Secretary-General Martin Griffiths and Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ilze Brands Kehris for their objective assessments of the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip.
The Russian Federation supported Algeria’s initiative to convene today’s extraordinary meeting of th…
We thank Mr. Khaled Khiari for his briefing. To be honest, given the blatant armed aggression against a sovereign country, we would have liked to have seen the Secretary-General as a briefer today.
The main task of the United Nations, as enshrined in its Charter, is to prevent threats to peace and …
We are grateful to those delegations that voted in favour of our proposed amendments to address the politicized nature of resolution 2722 (2024). We regret that the rest of the Security Council did not take that step, preferring to turn a blind eye to the dangerous flaws in the text. We could not su…
For the record, we would like to state our principled rejection of the approach adopted by the
French presidency despite our objections, including the invitation to this meeting of delegations under rule 37 and rule 39. Their number, including Ukraine, is six: the European Union (EU), Italy, Poland…
Our country attaches the utmost importance to the question of safe international navigation. In that regard, we cannot be unconcerned about the current situation in the Red Sea, given that many countries are heavily dependent on the delivery of essential goods through Red Sea routes.
We have repeat…
Let me begin by congratulating you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of January and expressing hopes that everything will go successfully. Secondly, I would like to thank the Permanent Representative of Ecuador and his team for his excellent presidency …
I just wanted to make a few comments. Many Council members are fond of saying, “do not let Russia mislead or distract us”. That is a notion familiar to us when the subject is an inconvenient one for the Council members who say such things. We also constantly hear that it is not Ukraine that started …
It was just yesterday (see S/PV.9523) that we met in this Chamber, at the insistence of representatives of the Kyiv regime and their sponsors, who tried to pass off the consequences of the unprofessional work of Ukrainian air defence forces as deliberate strikes by Russian aerospace forces against r…
We are not in the least surprised by the rushed decision of Zelenskyy’s regime and its Western backers to request today’s meeting. Many experts predicted that, in suffering defeat on the front line and rapidly losing support even in the West, the Kyiv clique would use any pretext to draw the attenti…
We thank the United Arab Emirates for convening this meeting. We also thank our briefers — Mr. Khaled Khiari, Mr. Marwan Muasher and Mr. Itay Epshtain — for their interesting and valuable briefings.
We are following with concern the situation in the West Bank, which continues to be very tense and …
Earlier when I introduced our oral amendment, I said that the vote on it would be a moment of truth, and so it was. The United States once again showed its true colours in front of the entire world, blocking an extremely weak call on the part of the Council for a cessation of hostilities in Gaza. In…
In the past few days, the Security Council, and with it the entire world, has witnessed the latest — and I am not afraid to use these words — shameful, cynical and irresponsible conduct by the United States, which is trying to avoid responsibility for the further use of the veto, resorting to all so…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ms. Otunbayeva, and the Director for Coordination of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, fo…
We would like to thank Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland and Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, Major General Gauchat, for their assessments of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, where for tw…
We thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), Ambassador Frazier of Malta, for their briefings. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Ambassador Frazier and her team for their efforts in preparing a six-month…
We are grateful to the Chinese presidency for holding today’s meeting. We highly appreciate Beijing’s contribution to multilateral efforts to resolve the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone.
For more than two months, a conflict of biblical proportions has been raging in the Middle Ea…
We thank the Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Ms. Rochdi, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Wosornu, for their briefings.
On the political track, we support the resumption of the work of the Constituti…
We fully support the convening of this emergency Security Council meeting on the situation in the Gaza Strip, with a focus on the protection of civilians, especially women and children. We thank the Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Sima Sami Bahous, the Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms. Catherine…
We would like to sincerely thank Albania and the United States for convening this meeting — I say so without any irony whatsoever. Frankly, we ourselves were considering convening a meeting of the Security Council on Ukraine today, 21 November, because it is a symbolic day for the ongoing Ukrainian …
