The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2635 (2022), prepared by France, on extending the special inspection regime designed to implement the arms embargo on the high seas off the coast of Libya.
I underline that Russia, along with other members of the Security Council, was at …
We welcome Judge Joan Donoghue, President of the International Court of Justice, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Professor Dapo Akande to this open debate.
Let me take this opportunity to thank the delegation of the United States for its professional an…
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his report on the situation in the Middle East.
Concern is growing about yet another escalation in tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories thanks to a recurrence of acts of violence, …
Russia voted against the draft resolution (S/2022/431) proposed by the United States. We are sorry that our American colleagues ignored the frequent clarifications we made during the drafting of the text in consultations and at recent Security Council meetings. We said we would not support this kind…
At the outset, I would like to express our condolences to you, Madam President, as well as the Permanent Mission of United States and the entire American people, for the horrendous crime that occurred yesterday in Texas, in which innocent people, most of them children, were killed, as well as for th…
We wish to thank our briefers for their briefings.
Digital technologies have transformed the world and become an integral part of its economic, political and social processes. There were hopes that they would become an engine of economic and social progress and that they would simplify communicatio…
We welcome the participation at today’s meeting of the Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Mr. Qu Dongyu, and the Executive Director of the World
Food Programme (WFP), Mr. David Beasley. We thank them fo…
Russia has requested a meeting on the military and biological activities of Ukraine for the third time. Let me explain why.
We continue to receive very disturbing documentary evidence that the United States Department of Defense is directly involved in carrying out dangerous biological projects in …
We welcome the UNICEF Deputy Executive Director for Programmes, Mr. Omar Abdi, and Assistant Secretary-General Joyce Msuya to this meeting. We listened carefully to their briefings.
Today a number of representatives spoke on issues other than children and education, which was the topic of today’s m…
The Russian Federation supported resolution
2630 (2022), prepared by the United States, on extending the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) for another six months. We continue to view Blue Helmets as an important factor in guaranteeing stability in the region an…
We would like to express our reservations about the fact that we do not consider German citizen Christian Schmidt to be the legitimate High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Security Council did not approve his appointment to that position. We would like to highlight the fact that the s…
First, we would like to congratulate the United States on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of May. We trust that, unlike the previous presidency, yours will be effective and impartial, as is necessary when acting in the capacity of President of the Security Coun…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2629 (2022), prepared by the United Kingdom, on extending the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL).
Nonetheless, we have many questions about the Mission’s work, which we raised very actively during negotiations on the draft. We…
We thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for presenting the
latest report (see S/2022/281) of the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013). Unfortunately, it is virtually a carbon copy of the previous report (see S/2022/181).…
We welcome Geir Pedersen and Joyce Msuya to the meeting and thank them for their briefings. We also listened to Nirvana Shawky’s comments.
On the political track, we note the holding in Geneva of the seventh session of the small body of the Constitutional Committee from 21 to 25 March. It is import…
We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, for his informative briefing on the situation in the Middle East region.
We continue to closely monitor developments in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the context of the ongoing clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque co…
We would like to thank the Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the situation in the country (S/2022/267) and for his views.
We welcome today the President of Colombia, His Excellency Mr. Iván Duq…
I know that this will not bring us any closer to the end of today’s meeting, but given that today’s topic is extremely important, I think that it is essential to say a few words on the reason this meeting was convened, especially as we were not given the chance to elaborate on that yesterday in a se…
At the outset, we would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to the delegation of the United Arab Emirates for its presidency during the month of March.
We thank the Secretary-General, Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo and Under-Secretary-General
Griffiths for their briefings. We also lis…
We have factual evidence that this was no less than 24 hours before the meeting that we requested. That is confirmed in documents; if anyone is interested, we could provide proof. But I want to express the hope that what you said today, Madam President, means that you will not in future refuse reque…
