We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. El-Ghassim Wane, and Ms. Aminata Cheick Dicko for their briefings. We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali, Mr. Abdoulaye Diop, at this meeting.
We firmly believe that th…
We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Ms. Ghada Mudawi for their briefings on the political and humanitarian aspects of the situation in Syria.
The situation in the country remains tense. The main challenges on the ground continue to be the illegal foreign military presence in the north-east and…
We thank Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East region in the context of the Middle East settlement process.
As we all heard from Mr. Wennesland, the situation surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains volatile. In the West B…
I shall refrain from commenting on the usual mantra of some members that everything that we bring to the Security Council on the subject of Ukraine is disinformation.
Many representatives in the Chamber today mentioned the tragedy in Dnipropetrovsk, where a missile destroyed the entrance to a resid…
We listened closely to the briefing of the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ilze Brands Kehris, but we would like to underscore that the Russian Federation continues to believe that matters of human rights protection do not fall within the purview of the Security Council and must be dis…
To be frank, we do not fully understand why today’s meeting was convened. Is it so we can listen to a briefing by Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo based on the so-called reliable information thoughtfully provided by so-called independent sources and independent commissions? Did we hear anything new f…
We thank the briefers for their statements. For today’s meeting, our Japanese colleagues have focused our attention on issues related to the rule of law, which is indeed a very relevant and important topic that should be addressed systematically and impartially. However, the concept note (S/2023/1, …
We welcome Colombia’s Vice-President Francia Márquez Mina and Minister for Foreign Affairs Álvaro Leyva Durán to today’s meeting. We thank the Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for his briefing on the situation in the country and for his assessment. We…
Our delegation has made the difficult
decision to support the adoption of resolution 2672 (2023), which extends until 10 July this year the United Nations mandate for the use of the Bab Al-Hawa crossing, through which humanitarian aid is delivered from Türkiye to the terrorist-infested Syrian encla…
We support the convening by the delegations of China and the United Arab Emirates of today’s Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. We are grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing on the alarming developments in the Ol…
We asked for the floor yet again because we were surprised by the statement made by our American colleague when he said that Russia suspended the deliberations of the Constitutional Committee on the basis of arbitrary demands on unrelated issues. I want to underscore that we had serious reasons for …
Russia abstained in the voting on the resolution on Myanmar (resolution 2669 (2022)). It is our principled position that the situation in Myanmar does not pose a threat to international peace and security. This conclusion follows from the contents of the resolution itself, which is mostly focused on…
We thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Special Representative Helen La Lime for their briefings. We also thank American journalist and editor of Haiti Liberté, Mr. Kim Ives, for his fascinating and open-minded insight into the situation in the country. We believe it very useful to invi…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2668 (2022), submitted by Mexico, on the mental health of peacekeepers and the personnel of peacekeeping operations and special political missions. However, we would like to make a statement pertaining to this resolution. We cannot agree with what was done…
We would like to thank Geir Pedersen and Martin Griffiths for the overview on the political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
The Russian Federation’s unchanging position is that there is no alternative to a Syrian-owned and Syrian-led political process carried out under the United Nations media…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, for her assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, and to welcome her to the Security Council Chamber for the first time in her current c…
We wish to thank the Under-Secretary- General, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, the Chargé d’affaires ad interim of the Delegation of the European Union, Mr. Silvio Gonzato, and Mr. Fergal Mythen, the Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), the Permanent Representative of…
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his report on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
We note the alarming frequency of the spiking violence that is recurring in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the West Bank and Gaza. We believe firmly that the situation will remain volatile u…
Allow me, first of all, to express our condolences to the delegation of Ireland following the death of the Irish peacekeeper in Lebanon.
We thank the Indian delegation for convening the meeting today on such a relevant topic, and we express our support for all victims of terrorism, represented here…
We would like to thank India for the choice of topic for today’s debate.
The world is going through difficult times. Crises are on the rise and international security is deteriorating. The stance of a group of Western States to preserve their monopoly and privilege in the world is undermining trust…
