Once again, Mr. President, we would like to express our regret that you did not summon the courage to approach your obligations impartially or refuse to act at the behest of those who insisted on holding this Security Council meeting on a non-existent agenda item. We categorically reject and condemn…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2809 (2025), relating to the activities of the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM). We are convinced that the presence of African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Somalia continues to be necessary. They are conscientiously doing t…
We would like to thank Khaled Khiari for his briefing.
For several months now, the whole world has been watching as the United States continues to deliberately stir up tensions around our friend Venezuela under the pretext of fighting drug smuggling and terrorist threats, while illegally destroying…
We must take the floor on a point of order owing to the attempts by some delegations to push the Security Council into committing a gross violation of its decisions and procedures.
Our Western colleagues are trying to pass today’s meeting off as a regular biannual discussion under the “Non-prolifer…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ms. Hanna Tetteh, for her briefing. We listened attentively to the briefing by the Somali Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) con…
We thank the briefers. We are pleased that regional representatives have also been given the floor in today’s discussion.
The Russian Federation consistently supports the efforts being undertaken by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) as part of its
mandate. We have taken …
Those who follow the Security Council meetings on Ukraine have yet another opportunity today to witness the hypocrisy of our European colleagues in demonstrating their unwavering support for the Kyiv regime. In practice, despite all the efforts by the organizers, today’s meeting serves only to highl…
We are grateful to Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
It has been more than a month since Israel and Hamas reached an agreement to cease hostilities. In this short t…
I would like to thank our Western colleagues very warmly for convening this Security Council briefing on Ukraine. A huge corruption scandal has just erupted there, incriminating top officials of the Kyiv regime. This came as no surprise to us. At almost every meeting, we have told members that they …
We would like to thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and Ms. Lisa Doughten, Director of the Financing and Outreach Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Syri…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2803 (2025), drafted by the United States. This is a draft that we simply could not support.
We appreciate the efforts of the United States and other mediators, which have made it possible to halt the active phase of the Israeli-Palestini…
We are very pleased to see you here today, Mr. President, presiding over our meeting. We would like to thank our today’s briefers for addressing a topic that can leave no one indifferent.
Everyone seems to agree that conflicts go hand in hand with hunger. Yet, the causation here appears to be obvio…
We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Denmark, Christina Lassen, for her statement and for her joint chairing of the Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions, with the Permanent Representative of Pakistan, Asim Ahmad. We listened attentively to the briefing…
We have closely listened to the speakers and studied the concept note.
The importance of climate and environmental issues is beyond doubt, and they need to be addressed. But this should be done in formats designed specifically for this purpose, at a professional rather than a propaganda level. Russ…
We congratulate Sierra Leone as it assumes the presidency of the Security Council, and we wish it every success.
We would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Ms. Martha Pobee, and Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, Guang
The Security Council extended t…
Russia abstained in the vote on the United States-Panama draft Security Council resolution (S/2025/609) concerning the transformation of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti into the Gang Suppression Force. The decisive factor for us was the views of the Haitian authorities and …
We thank Mr. Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory in the context of the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
Unfortunately, as the briefing made clear, we still have …
We thank the Secretary- General for his report on the situation in the Gaza Strip. We welcome the participation of the ministers for foreign affairs of regional States and the relevant international organizations in today’s meeting.
The crisis in Gaza has inflicted civilian casualties on a scale un…
We have already stated our principled position today, which entails rejecting both the attempts by European States to trigger a snapback and the actions of the presidency in support of those attempts, which include the introduction of this draft resolution (S/2025/561). Our position on this matter r…
We are compelled to take the floor on a point of order, because we do not see any legal, political or procedural grounds for taking any steps to advance European claims about launching the snapback mechanism, including proceeding to a vote on the draft resolution submitted by the South Korean presid…
