Before we adopt the agenda, I would like to protest the way in which the newly inaugurated British presidency dealt with our two requests to convene a Security Council meeting in connection with the horrific provocation of the Ukrainian radicals in the city of Bucha.
On Sunday, 3 April, we first re…
We thank today’s briefers. Today we have heard, and will likely hear again, many calls for a humanitarian truce, the provision of humanitarian access, humanitarian pauses and humanitarian corridors. Such initiatives were advanced yesterday by Secretary-General António Guterres.
It is hard not to ma…
At the outset, I wish to thank the countries that supported and co-sponsored draft resolution S/2022/231.
The vote that took place has exposed all those for whom politicizing the humanitarian file is more important than helping the United Nations to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians in need. W…
I would like to begin by noting that we were encouraged by the initiative proposed by our Mexican and French colleagues, who put forward a draft resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine in early March. However, that draft was immediately torpedoed by our United States and British colleagu…
Propaganda, disinformation, amateurism, unfounded imaginings and false-flag operations are what we have heard today. Some representatives have literally repeated their statements from our meeting on 11 March (see S/PV.8991). If representatives have heard nothing new in our statement today, it is bec…
First of all, allow me to express our deep and sincere condolences to the Permanent Representative of Ireland, Ms. Geraldine Byrne Nason, and all of the Irish Mission following the sudden passing of Deputy Permanent Representative of Ireland Mr. Jim Kelly. This is obviously a loss to the Irish Missi…
We listened very carefully to the briefers, and we share the concerns voiced by United Nations about the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in a number of regions in Ukraine. It is also rightly pointed out by our colleagues in the Security Council. The difference, however, is that the assessments…
The Russian Federation was compelled to abstain in the voting on resolution 2626 (2022), extending the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). We did so for the following reasons.
From the beginning of the discussions on the draft, we tried to convey to colleagues o…
We were not surprised by the statement made by the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). We knew what he would talk about even before he took the floor. What we were surprised by is that the briefing and assessments of Under-Secretary-General DiCarl…
What conclusions can be drawn from our discussion today? As we expected, first and foremost of our Western colleagues, not one of them addressed the substance of the issue we put forward. While my American colleague was throwing thunderbolts and accusing us, as we expected, of spreading propaganda, …
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has demonstrated how vulnerable humankind is to biological threats. It has already taken, and continues to take, an enormous toll on human life.
With the entry into force of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1975, it was hoped that the world woul…
I have not taken the floor again to engage in controversy with the Ambassador of Ukraine. I have a different task, to which I will revert.
However, I cannot help saying a few words with regard to some remarks made by the Permanent Representative of Ukraine. He interpreted the letter “Z” on the Russ…
We thank Martin Griffiths for his views. We welcome the new Executive Director of UNICEF, Catherine Russell, to this meeting and thank her for her briefing. We wish to note that we have seen the unbiased reaction of the Fund to the Ukraine crisis over the past eight years of its duration. The Fund d…
Today’s meeting is another attempt by Kyiv authorities to kindle artificial hysteria around what is happening in Ukraine, and they are being assisted in this by their Western backers.
Today we have once again heard lies about how Russian troops attacked the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, and thi…
I would like to begin my statement with a clarification. The agenda item on which we are convened to discuss today has clearly been named incorrectly. If it is to reflect reality, then it should refer not to temporarily occupied territories, but rather territories lost as a result of the misanthropi…
I had not planned on entering into a conversation between Russia and the United States at this meeting. We said everything we wanted to say in our statement today. However, we simply do not understand the threats, provocation and escalation by Russia being referred to by the representative of the Un…
We would like to thank Ms. DiCarlo for her briefing.
First and foremost, I would like to thank those countries that conducted themselves properly and deemed it possible to vote against or abstain in the voting on the proposal of the United States to raise this topic for discussion today. One might …
The Russian Federation requests a procedural vote on the proposal to hold today’s meeting on the initiative of the United States. In explaining its proposal to convene today’s meeting, the delegation of the United States underscored that it considers the deployment of Russian troops on Russian terri…
We thank Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen Hans Grundberg and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Ramesh Rajasingham for their comprehensive reports. We listened attentively to Ms. Ola Al-Aghbary.
The new year did not…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. El-Ghassim Wane, for leading the efforts of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and his briefing on the situation in the country. We also listened attentively to the civil society rep…
