We extend our gratitude to the non-permanent members of the Council for their initiative and perseverance in putting forward this draft resolution (S/2025/583), addressing the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. The Russian Federation voted in favour of this document, which outlines the key el…
We thank the Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, and to the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Tom Fletcher, for their detailed assessments of the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. We listened very carefully to the statement made by Ms. Chourbaji.
We note that, despi…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, for her briefing on the situation in the country. We took careful note of the statement by the civil society representative, Ms. Hanifa Girowal.…
Today the members of the Security Council have been convened to discuss an incident that took place on the territory of Poland on the night of 9 to 10 September. According to reports from the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces, more than a dozen uncrewed aerial vehicles entered the count…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, for her briefing. We welcome the new Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations, Mr. Olabi, and the representative of Türkiye.
We carefully examined the most recent report o…
Let me congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of September. I also thank Panama for its presidency in August.
We thank the delegation of the Republic of Korea for organizing this very timely discussion on the future of peace operations in t…
We would like to thank the delegation of Pakistan for organizing this open debate on promoting international peace and security through multilateralism and peaceful settlement of disputes. We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his briefing.
We supported the corresponding resolution crafted b…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for his comprehensive briefing — his last in that capacity. We extend our sincere appreciation to him for his unimpeachable leadership of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia and his y…
We thank the Pakistani presidency for swiftly reacting to the request from Syria, supported by Algeria and Somalia, to convene today’s emergency Council meeting in connection with the latest dangerous spiral of tension in the Middle East, this time affecting Syria. We would like to thank Mr. Khaled …
We thank Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher and UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell for their briefings — they have exposed the true scale of the ongoing tragedy affecting civilians in the Gaza Strip. With each passing day, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza S…
We would first like to thank Guyana for its flawless presidency of the Security Council in June. I am sure that we will be saying the same about the Pakistani presidency in August, and we wish Pakistan every success in the meantime. We would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča a…
We thank Ms. Martha Pobee, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, and the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005), concerning the Sudan, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea, for their briefings. We also listened attentively to Ms. Shayna Lewis. We wel…
We appreciate the organization of today’s debate and thank the briefers for their contributions to the discussion.
Year after year, the Secretary-General’s reports on the issue of children indicate an increase in the number of grave violations against children: in 2024, that figure rose yet again b…
We thank Under- Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and the Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and Permanent Representative of Slovenia, Samuel Žbogar, and take this opportunity to congratulate our Slovenian colleagues on the consensus approval of the Facili…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Joyce Msuya, and the Head of UN-Women, Ms. Sima Sami Bahous, for the…
We are grateful to the presidency of Guyana for promptly convening today’s meeting to discuss the extremely dangerous developments in the Middle East, which have been further exacerbated by the strikes conducted by the United States overnight targeting Iranian sites. We would like to thank Secretary…
Today we are once again witnessing a parade of European countries who are seeking to make their so- called invaluable contribution to the discussion by repeating identical narratives and parading themselves on television screens and in the news feeds of their countries. The European Union (EU) membe…
We are grateful to the Guyanese presidency for its prompt response to the request by Russia, China, Pakistan and Algeria to convene this meeting. We thank the Secretary-General for his opening remarks, as well as the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and the Director Ge…
We welcome you, Mr. Minister, as you preside over the Security Council today. The Guyanese presidency has proposed for discussion in the Security Council today an issue that many regard as complex and most inconvenient: the link between poverty and conflict. We thank the Secretary-General for his br…
We are grateful to Najat Rochdi, Joyce Msuya and Amneh Khoulani for their briefings.
Since the most recent Council meeting on this issue (see S/PV.9920), all the challenges facing the country remain relevant. There has been a significant increase in the risks of resumption of large-scale terrorist …
