Today, before our very eyes, the Security Council forfeited consensus on yet another extremely important topic in the work of our Organization, resulting from an unconstructive, irresponsible tactic by a number of States designed to force us to hold a meeting to discuss the report of the independent…
We wanted to explain our position regarding the proposal of some Council members to hear a briefing to the Security Council on the report of the Chairperson of the independent international fact- finding mission on Myanmar (A/HRC/39/64). We believe that this decision would be a mistake and would cre…
We thank Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Bédializoun Moussa Nébié, Special Representative of the African Union to the Central African Republic, Mr. Koen Vervaeke, Managing Director for Africa of the European External Action Service, and Ambassador Léo…
We thank the United Kingdom delegation for initiating today’s meeting. The situation in Yemen merits the Security Council’s close attention. Mr. Lowcock has given us a depressing briefing on the situation in Yemen, where the world’s worst humanitarian crisis is unfolding.
This is a structural crisi…
We are grateful to Mr. Mladenov and Mr. El- Ad for their informative briefings.
The situation in the Middle East continues to be a complex one requiring a significant collective effort, first and foremost by the United Nations and its Security Council, which is the main guarantor of the internation…
I did not plan to take the floor either, but my colleagues have left me with no choice. Yes, of course rule 37 is an important one, and we are obliged to keep to the designated agenda item for the meeting that we are discussing, but insisting that the representative of a country that is directly aff…
We thank Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura for his briefing. It is not yet time to bid him farewell, and we will postpone that for now, because he has promised to work on this matter up to the last minute.
Recently in Syria we have seen a trend towards stabilization associated with the liberation of…
Given that this is my first meeting under your
presidency, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, and wish you every success during the month of October. We welcome the presence in the Chamber today of Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, to discuss this impo…
We thank Special representative Mladenov for his substantive briefing on the Middle East settlement.
Today’s meeting is taking place on a landmark day for the history of the peace process in the Middle East. Forty years ago, the Camp David Agreements were arrived at. Twenty-five years ago, the Oslo…
At the outset, I should like to extend our gratitude to all of those delegations that have voiced
their condolences in connection with the tragedy that occurred yesterday in the skies over Syria.
We thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura and Mr. Mark Lowcock for their briefings.
Yesterday, in Sochi, yet an…
You misunderstood me, Madam President. We stand ready to agree to the publication of a report that objectively reflects Russian concerns. Let me once again draw your attention to the fact that you are the ones preventing its dissemination. There is no other version of the report other than what the …
I, too, like my colleagues, wish to begin by expressing my deep condolences to all of those who suffered from the effects of the natural disasters in the United States, China and the Philippines.
I wish also to thank Ms. DiCarlo for her briefing.
Madam President, you suggested that we hold a Secur…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, for his analysis of the processes taking place in Afghanistan. We listened closely to the statements delivered by the Ambassador of the Islamic Repub…
We thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his briefing and appreciate his views. We also thank Ms. Blakemore for her briefing and her emotional testimony.
Peacebuilding is unquestionably one of the main pillars of the United Nations, and peacekeepin…
We have listened carefully to the discussion today. We have just as much interest in it as the other member States of the Security Council. Many people today have asked us to reveal our plans for Idlib. We too would like the coalition to share its plans for Syria with us, but frankly neither the pla…
We thank the United Kingdom for convening today’s meeting. We also thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, for his detailed briefing on the work with the parties to the Yemeni conflict, including within the framework of the latest consultations in Geneva. Russia…
We are marking a sad date today, and we have just come from memorializing the unfortunate victims who died in that terrible tragedy. Across the street from the Russian Mission in New York are a police station and a fire station whose employees took part in rescuing people on 11 September 2001. Today…
At the outset, we would like to thank the Secretary-General for the information he provided and his assessment of the threat of corruption in situations of conflict. We also thank Mr. Prendergast for his briefing.
Yes, conflicts do provide scope for profit and many people do indeed profit from them…
We thank Mr. De Mistura and Mr. Ging for their briefings. The United States presidency has formulated the topic of today’s meeting in a curious way. It has been convened at the initiative of some Council members of the Security Council to consider
the situation in the Middle East, with an emphasis …
Unfortunately, I have not learned anything new from my British colleague’s further statement. We heard the same set of unsubstantiated accusations that we have heard in previous meetings. I would like to mention a couple of factual things. As I said about
consular access to Yulia and Sergei Skripal…
