We listened with great attention to the Secretary-General’s statement and the briefings by the President of the New Development Bank, Dilma Rousseff, and Mr. Jeffrey Sachs.
We thank the Chinese presidency for its initiative to discuss in the Security Council the nexus between peace and development.…
I would like to thank the representative of Ukraine for her direct and indirect confirmation of our premise that the Kyiv regime is fighting specifically against canonical orthodoxy in Ukraine. We also heard a vivid example of the promotion of hate speech in this Chamber.
I want to thank all the members of the Security Council who have called for respect for freedom of speech in Ukraine. I would like to say to our Western colleagues — who have no interest in facts — that now that they have read out their standard and clichéd statements saying that Ukraine can do what…
Today, once again, we convened a meeting of the Security Council to draw the attention of the international community to the cynical persecution of the canonical orthodoxy in Ukraine, which has been unfolding before our very eyes. We are grateful for the participation in today’s meeting of the Assis…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on the resolution submitted by Malta (resolution 2712 (2023)). We could not fail to respond to the calls, including from countries in the region, for the Security Council to adopt at least some kind of humanitarian product. That is the only reason why w…
Before the members of the Security Council move to vote on the draft resolution submitted by Malta (S/2023/876), we would like to propose an oral amendment to the operative part of the draft resolution. We propose that we add a new paragraph, 3 bis, as follows:
(spoke in English)
“Further calls fo…
We are grateful to the briefers for the information provided. Through the Police Commissioners present, we thank all police peacekeepers for their conscientious fulfilment of their mandated duties in the maintenance of peace and security in complex conflict situations.
Police components occupy a sp…
We fully support the convening of this emergency meeting on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip at the initiative of the United Arab Emirates delegation. We thank Mr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), and Mr. Marwan Jilani, Director General…
We are grateful to all our colleagues who found the strength to give a worthy assessment of yesterday’s latest crime by the Kyiv regime, or to at least express their sympathy and condolences to the families of those killed or injured.
At the same time, I feel compelled to note that our Western coll…
We convened this emergency meeting with regard to the latest flagrant violation by the Kyiv regime of the norms of international humanitarian law and further evidence of its intentional actions to destroy the civilian population in Donbas, namely, the mass shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces of d…
We welcome the beginning of Chinese presidency of the Security Council, and wish your delegation, Mr. President, every success. We also thank the delegation of Brazil for its stewardship of the Council during the very challenging month of October.
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of …
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cuba.
We align ourselves with the joint statement delivered by the representative of Eritrea on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations, and we wou…
The fact that the Security Council is holding its second meeting this month on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine comes as a surprise to all those who are following the work of the Council against the backdrop of the worsening Palestinian-Israeli conflict, on which the United States and its allie…
I will be brief. Taking stock of my American colleague’s latest comment as an admission, we did not hear a response to the question we asked him. However, I would like to ask him a rhetorical question, to which I do not require an answer, and the answer is obvious anyway. How many times during the p…
We fully support the initiative of the delegations of the United Arab Emirates and China to convene this emergency meeting of the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. It was with utmost concern that we listened to the assessment of the situation on the ground by the Commissioner- …
We would like to thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Ms. Wosornu for presenting their overview of the political and humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
The situation in Syria remains extremely tense, including because of the unprecedented escalation of
the Palestinian-Israeli con…
I would like to say a few words in response to what has just been said by the Permanent Representative of Israel. The Permanent Representative of Israel posed a rhetorical question: what would Moscow do if there were terrorist attacks on the Russian Federation? The response to that question is very …
We regret the fact that the Security Council has once again failed to take the opportunity to respond to the unprecedented crisis in the Middle East.
I have already provided a detailed account of the reasons why the draft resolution submitted by the United States (S/2023/792) is absolutely unaccept…
For two weeks now, the Security Council has been unable to send a collective signal for de-escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone. That is extremely lamentable. The bloodshed continues, with thousands of civilians killed or wounded and more than 1.5 million people internally displaced. …
We thank the Secretary-General, as well as the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Tor Wennesland and Ms. Lynn Hastings, for their substantive briefings on the situation in the Middle East region.
We believe it is important to note that in these difficult times, the Secretary…
