We thank Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for his briefing.
Ensuring the nuclear and physical safety of nuclear facilities has always been and always will be an unequivocal priority for our country. From the very beginning, with the support of the Ag…
At the outset, I would like to wish all of our African colleagues a happy Africa Day. On this day, exactly 60 years ago in Addis Ababa, the first conference of independent African States was held and laid the foundations for the creation of the Organization of African Unity, the work of which the Af…
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his substantive briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. We also listened to the remarks by Ms. Tania Hary.
The unprecedented escalation of violence in the Arab-Israeli conflict zon…
We express our gratitude to today’s briefers.
Food insecurity is a serious problem for the international community. Its causes are multifaceted and began long before the current situation. Not only armed conflicts, but also unilateral sanctions imposed by Western countries play an important role in…
Western countries insist that they are not parties to the conflict but are only helping Ukraine to defend itself. However, the reality is the polar opposite. A proxy war is being waged with Russia in Ukraine. Since the last Council meeting in February on the subject of Western arms deliveries to Ukr…
We are grateful to our briefers today.
The current situation in Yemen is grounds for cautious optimism. We note the progress on resolving the years-long military and political crisis in Yemen achieved by the Yemeni parties with support from the United Nations and regional forces.
On the military f…
We thank our Turkmen colleagues for their initiative in convening today’s meeting of the General Assembly on such an important topic. Russia is a long- standing and reliable partner of the Central Asian States. For many years, we have supported our neighbours in their desire to follow the path of pr…
We would like to begin our statement by noting the hypocrisy underlying today’s meeting of the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine. There were no meetings held on that topic for the entire month of April, and the delegations of France and Ecuador, as well as other Western deleg…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Her Excellency Mrs. Željka Cvijanović, Chair of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We note with deep concern that the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina has entered a qualitatively new and dangerous phase. The Western community has become d…
We would like to put on record our disagreement with the presence of Mr. Christian Schmidt at this meeting in his capacity as so-called High Representative. The Security Council did not approve him for that position. We want to stress that the question of Bosnia and Herzegovina is on the Council’s a…
We are pleased to see you, Mr. Councillor, in the President’s chair. We also welcome to today’s meeting Mr. Bujar Osmani, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia.
I think it will come as no surprise …
We welcome you to today’s meeting, Mr. President, and congratulate Switzerland on its leadership of the Security Council. A country’s maiden presidency of the Council is indeed a historic event, and we wish Switzerland every success. We thank Mr. Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Hum…
We do not intend to transform today’s meeting into a dialogue between Russia and the United States, but I would like to say a few things.
First of all, I want to thank the representative of the United States for acknowledging just now — contrary to what he said in his official statement — that it …
We thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
Today we have heard a number of critical remarks directed at our country. We are not surprised by the overall logic expressed by our former Western partners, which is that Russia is to blame for all of the ills of today’s world. However, sinc…
We welcome the personal participation of President Nyusi in today’s meeting and thank the briefers for their statements. We are grateful to the Mozambican presidency for the choice of today’s topic. We have often stressed the importance of considering the influence of the whole range of socioeconomi…
We are pleased to be welcoming you as you preside over our meeting today, Mr. President. I would like to thank the Secretary-General and President Assoumani for their briefings. We also thank Mozambique for organizing today’s debate on the pressing problem of combating terrorism and extremism, with …
I did not ask the representative of the United States about the article by Mr. Hersh, which he did not even read. I do really recommend that he read it. But I did ask him a direct question: how does he understand the words of his own President, who himself openly said: “we will destroy Nord Stream”?…
I have a question for my colleague from the United States. I would like to say that before the recent revelations by Mr. Seymour Hersh, I do not recall Russian officials specifically naming the United States as the perpetrator of that tragedy. The discussions of the matter emerged only after the pub…
I believe that, after today’s vote, suspicion regarding who is behind the act of sabotage at the Nord Stream pipeline only grows. I would like to remind the Council of some basic facts.
In the eyes of the whole world, the United States and its allies have done everything in their power to ensure th…
Today we are to vote on a draft resolution (S/2023/212) to establish, under the auspices of the Secretary-General, an international investigation into the act of sabotage against the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea in September 2022. The draft resolution is proposed by the Russian Federat…
