We are grateful to the delegation of France, and to Mr. Le Drian personally, for organizing this
meeting on combating the financing of terrorism. The Security Council has been actively working on this matter since the beginning of the year. Following the consideration of the current threats in the …
We thank Ms. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary- General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Mr. Rajasingham, Director of the Coordination Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings.
There have been major changes recently in the military and political si…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Ms. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and thank her for her briefing on cooperation between the United Nations and one of the world’s largest regional organizations.
Just the othe…
We too would like to start by expressing our deepest condolences to our Ethiopian friends in connection with the tragic crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane and the resulting death toll of many people from a number of countries, including personnel from various entities in the United Nations system.…
I would first like to congratulate you personally, Madam President, and all the women staff members of the United Nations Secretariat and Permanent Missions accredited to the United Nations, on International Women’s Day. It is in honour of this wonderful holiday that my colleagues have brought you f…
I would first like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for March and to wish you every success. I would also like to commend Equatorial Guinea for its conduct of the presidency in February.
We are grateful to Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, Chairper…
We deeply regret that the Security Council has once again been dragged into this exhibition of political adventurism.
Draft resolution S/2019/186, submitted by the delegation of the United States, was written to instigate regime change on a pretext of caring about people. We have seen all of this b…
We welcome Special Envoy Geir Pedersen to the Council for his first briefing and thank him for his report. We share many of the views that he expressed. Needless to say, one of the key points he made was about the importance of restoring lost confidence not just inside Syria but around it, among all…
We have before us draft resolution S/2019/186, submitted by the United States of America. We have finally reached the culmination of the spectacle of the United States’ double standards in Venezuela. During the Security Council meetings a month ago and then the day before yesterday (see S/PV.8452 an…
We are pleased to welcome you today as President of the Security Council, Sir. We would like to thank the Equatorial Guinea presidency, both in terms of its performance of its functions throughout this month and for organizing today’s meeting on a subject whose significance for the work of the Secur…
I did not intend to engage in polemics with my United States colleague. However, given that he has taken the floor, I should like to make one remark and pose one question.
With respect to whose rhetoric aligns more closely to the Cold War, I have my own views on that. Mr. Abrams was an active parti…
We thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo and welcome the Minister of the People’s Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Jorge Arreaza, to the Chamber.
I fully agree with my German colleague that the topic of today’s meeting should have been “Threats to international peace and …
We thank Ms. Reena Ghelani for her briefing.
We are pleased with the steadily declining violence in Syria. Despite the continuing trend towards stabilization, however, there are still some hotbeds of tension in the Syrian Arab Republic, including in Idlib governorate and east of the Euphrates. The …
I would like to begin by stating that the proposed, or rather imposed, title for this meeting is deliberately misleading. If anyone is occupying Ukrainian territory today, it is the Maidan authorities under the control of external forces.
As for Crimea, I am not even going to talk about it today. C…
We thank Special Envoy Griffiths and Under- Secretary-General Lowcock for their comprehensive survey of the military, political and humanitarian situations in Yemen. We welcome the progress that the parties made during the fourth joint meeting of the Redeployment Coordination Committee under the lea…
I would naturally like to comment on some of the remarks that we have heard here today. I am not going to get into a direct argument with my Ukrainian colleague, but will merely point out that he went to a great deal of trouble to substitute the Russian military for one of the parties to the conflic…
We would first like to thank Mr. Jenča, Ms. Mueller, Mr. Apakan and Mr. Sajdik for their briefings today.
We took the initiative of convening today’s meeting in order to discuss the implementation of a document that is extremely important to the settlement of the internal Ukrainian crisis, the pack…
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s briefing. We are grateful to Under-Secretary- General Voronkov and Executive Director Coninsx for their briefings. We believe firmly that productive cooperation with their entities will guarantee progress in the work of combating terrorism under th…
At the outset, I would like to thank our colleagues from Equatorial Guinea for their principled position and for including this meeting on Kosovo in the Security Council’s February programme of work to enable us to discuss the situation there and the Secretary-General’s periodic report (S/2019/102),…
We welcome you, Sir, as President of the Security Council, and we thank you for taking the initiative to convene today’s meeting. We also thank Mr. Fedotov and Mrs. Ukonga for their briefings.
We share the concerns about the expansion of international criminal groups’ activities, including on the h…
