We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Acting Director Talahma for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
We have consistently supported the Special Envoy’s mediation efforts to promote a Syrian-led and Syrian- owned settlement that is based on resolution 2254 (2015…
Thanks to our former Western partners’ shameful and cowardly action preventing a briefer from Donbas from speaking, today the Council will have to listen to a statement by us that will be longer than usual.
Our discussions at the Security Council on the humanitarian aspects of the Ukrainian crisis …
After listening to that passionate statement by our Albanian colleague regarding the presence of Serbia during meetings under resolution 1244 (1999), I wish to state that we have nothing against that. However, I would like to ask him a question, and perhaps he will venture to respond to it here in t…
We deplore the fact that a number of delegations today voted against our proposed briefer. We see it as a display of egregious hypocrisy and double standards when representatives of Donbas, which for nine years has suffered thanks to the war unleashed on it by Kyiv, are denied the right to address t…
We insist on the participation of the briefer we have proposed to invite to today’s meeting. Our delegation introduced the proposal to invite Ms. Daria Morozova based on the sole consideration of giving the Security Council an opportunity to receive first- hand information about the catastrophic hum…
I am not going to engage in a dispute with Professor Snyder.
That is because, first, he did not respond to the questions that I asked. He simply gave another briefing. By the way, I want to let Professor Snyder know that I have read Serhii Plokhy’s books. But once the record of our meeting is ready…
I would like to make a few brief comments with regard to what we heard today.
Some of our colleagues made an energetic but unconvincing attempt to cite examples of hate speech about Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Russian media. The emotional statements of some of our political scientists are, first,…
We thank Kirill Vyshinsky and Dmitry Vasilets for their briefings. Each of them has a bitter personal experience of encountering Russophobia in Ukraine. They have seen with their own eyes and from the inside how that State was transformed into a Russophobic anti-Russia.
I would like to hear Mr. Sny…
Today is the end of a difficult week for the United Nations. It will be remembered by everyone for the information hype created by Ukraine and its Western sponsors on the anniversary of Russia’s launch of a special military operation in Ukraine. It would seem that this is exactly what Mr. Kuleba pro…
We are on our feet to honour the memory of all the victims of what has happened in Ukraine, starting in 2014 — all of those who perished. All lives are priceless, and that is why we are standing, to honour the memory of them all.
I would like to warn you, Sir, that the moment you strike the gavel, thereby formalizing your decisions, you will create an egregious precedent whereby the representatives of Ukraine in the Council are given the kind of privileges that are denied to representatives of other regions of the world. Let…
I would like to say a few words regarding a point of order.
We would like to ask you, Mr. President, to please clarify the basis on which you propose to give the floor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Dmytro Kuleba, before the members of the Council speak. We have nothing against…
The previous occasion on which the Security Council discussed the question of cooperation between the United Nations and the European Union (EU) was in June 2022, when we stated that, thanks to Brussels’ efforts, EU-Russia relations had plummeted to rock bottom (see S/PV.9065). As it turns out, ther…
We have gathered together today for a very important meeting. Although it has been convened like others, it is significantly different in tone from the previous meeting (S/PV.9144) on the sabotage against the Nord Stream pipelines, which was convened on the 30 September 2022. As many of us recall, e…
Eight years ago, on 17 February 2015, the Security Council adopted resolution 2202 (2015), which approved the package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements. The resolution made those agreements the only legal basis for resolving the intra-Ukrainian conflict, and through the Secu…
I think that it would not be an exaggeration to say that, since our most recent meeting on the topic of deliveries of Western weapons to Ukraine in December (see S/PV.9216), the demand for a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis among States Members of the United Nations, and, indeed, the intern…
I would like to once again state that, despite Mr. Arias’ detailed explanations in the course of this meeting today, he has continued to fail to provide a substantive answer to any of the questions asked not just by us, but also by the community of experts who are outraged by the unprecedented viola…
First of all, we would like to start by expressing our condolences to the families of the victims affected by the horrific earthquakes yesterday in Türkiye and Syria, whose representatives are at today’s meeting.
We have recently had many completely empty meetings on the Syrian chemical dossier, an…
We have a point of order. We would like to go on record with our categorical disagreement about the presence at this meeting of the Coordinator of the Investigation and Identification Team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Mr. Santiago Oñate-Laborde. We see no groun…
