We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Caroline Ziadeh, for her briefing on the situation in the province and for the insights she provided. We welcome the participation of Prime Minister Ana Brnabić of Serbia. We have heard the views of Ms. Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu. …
We would like to thank Mr. Khaled Khiari; Ms. Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile; Mr. Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa; and Ms. Josefina Echavarría Álvarez for their briefings. We are grateful to Brazil for taking the initiative to discuss such an exceptionally important topic…
We have just witnessed yet another demonstration of the hypocrisy and double standards of our American colleagues. While not opposing in principle the idea of adopting a humanitarian resolution in the Security Council, they were not genuinely interested in it and simply hoped to put enough pressure …
The voting on the amendment contained in document S/2023/776, to be inserted before operative
paragraph 1 of draft resolution S/2023/773, on an immediate ceasefire, and on the amendment contained in S/2023/775, to be inserted after operative paragraph 2 of draft resolution S/2023/773, on a condemna…
Together with the delegations of the United Arab Emirates and China, we initiated today’s emergency Security Council meeting in view of the tragic events in the Gaza Strip. Yesterday the Al Ahli Hospital in central Gaza City was destroyed as a result of air strikes. We are deeply shocked by what hap…
During consultations on 16 October, many Security Council members tried to dissuade us from calling for a vote on our depoliticized humanitarian draft resolution. We were asked to wait 24 hours so that members could submit a “consensus” draft resolution. We did not agree with that. And we were right…
We regret that the Security Council has once again been held hostage to the selfish aspirations of the bloc of Western delegations. That is the only reason that it has been unable to send a clear, strong and unified message aimed at de-escalation. We are talking about the largest outbreak of violenc…
From the very beginning, Russia has been calling on the Security Council to respond to the unprecedented exacerbation of the current crisis. Unfortunately, for five days, there has been no movement in that direction.
We underscore once again that we condemn what happened on 7 October and the deaths…
First and foremost, we would like to thank Mr. Ebo and Mr. Nixon for their substantive briefings.
With astonishing tenacity, which deserves better use, our Western colleagues convene meetings every month on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, hypocritically calling for a swift cessation of hosti…
We welcome the participation in today’s discussion of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Leyva Durán. We thank the briefers for their briefings.
The 2016 Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace is approaching its seventh anniversary, nea…
I would like to start by once again expressing my bewilderment at the presence at our meeting as speakers not only of the representative of the European Union (EU), but also the representatives of Czechia, Romania, Poland and Latvia. I would also like to ask a question. What added value will we obta…
At the outset, we congratulate Brazil on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for October and hope it will be a successful one. We welcome the presence at today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti.
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2699 (2023…
We thank the representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in New York and the International Organization for Migration for their assessments of the situation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of refuge.…
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on Israel’s settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories in the context of the twenty-seventh report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
We liste…
We thank Dirk Pohlmann and Jimmy Dore for their briefings, which once again demonstrated to the Security Council that the citizens of Western countries also have a great deal of questions for their Governments amid the numerous inconsistencies in the narrative promoted by Washington and its allies i…
I addressed you only in your capacity as the President of the Security Council, and never as the Prime Minister of Albania. I stress once again that I am in a procedural dialogue with you, and not a substantive dialogue. Please refrain from making political assessments at the beginning of your state…
I wish to draw your attention, Mr. President, to the fact that you are today acting as President of the Security Council, not speaking in your national capacity as the representative of Albania. Your objective is to conduct a meeting as set out in the Security Council’s rules of procedure, instead o…
With pleasure, Mr. President. We do not believe the arguments that you have advanced are compelling. A number of members of the Security Council will be represented in the Chamber today at the Head of State level. You tried to explain why the Ukrainian President has been prioritized. However, that h…
You were hasty, Mr. President, in saying “it is so decided”. We have two questions.
First and foremost, we wish to ask you on what basis you propose to give the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the floor before the members of the Security Council speak, many of whom are also represented a…
I thank Ms. Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, as well as Mr. Cohen and Mr. Miebach, for their briefings.
We share the view that the provision of humanitarian assistance to populations in need remains one of the most
important areas of the work of the United Nations and …
