We would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and Assistant Secretary-General Ms. Joyce Msuya for their briefings.
Unfortunately, the settlement process in Yemen is stalled, owing to instability both in Yemen itself and in the region as a whole. Wo…
The regular reports by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) to the Security Council are one of the issues that divert the Council’s attention from genuinely important matters on its agenda.
Today’s meeting should have served as a platform for discussing practical issu…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Mohamed Al Hassan, for his briefing on the situation in the Republic of Iraq. His statement clearly shows that the situation in the country has definitively normalized. That is further proof that the decision to draw down th…
We thank Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for her briefing.
Overall, we note that progress in addressing the outstanding issues related to Syria’s initial declaration can be achieved only if the OPCW leadership ensures that this process is fr…
We regret that the delegation of Sierra Leone has taken issue with the draft report. As the drafters of the introduction, we would like to recall that that section was discussed in detail for a long period, and all delegations had the opportunity to raise their concerns. As I already said today, we …
The Russian Federation is presenting today the draft annual report of the Security Council to the General Assembly, the adoption of which, we hope, will be unanimously supported by all members of the Council. The draft report provides information about the measures taken by the Security Council in 2…
Yesterday we gathered in this Chamber (see S/PV.9924) solely so that the European States could keep our attention artificially focused on the Ukrainian issue. Yet today we do not see in the Chamber those delegations that always attend the meetings on Ukraine convened by Western States. But that is p…
We would like to once again state for the record that we completely disagree with the presidency’s approach to inviting delegations to today’s meeting under rules 37 and 39. Besides Ukraine, five other delegations have been invited, all of them are either members or allies of NATO and the European U…
We thank the Special Coordinator ad interim for the Middle East Peace Process, Ms. Sigrid Kaag, for the briefing on the situation in Gaza. We are also grateful to Dr. Feroze Sidhwa for his testimony. We wish to take this opportunity to express our solidarity with the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr…
We thank the briefers for their contributions to today’s discussion.
Civilians around the world continue to bear the brunt of armed conflicts. In 2024, the United Nations registered 36,000 civilian deaths in 14 armed conflicts
What we find relevant in the Secretary-General’s report is the conclusi…
We are grateful to Mr. Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and to Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of the Coordination Division and Head and Representative of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva, for their comprehensive overview of the situa…
We welcome your personal participation, Mr. President and Prime Minister, in today’s open debate. We thank the Secretary-General and the briefers for their briefings.
We consider the topic proposed by the Greek presidency to be pressing. Maritime security issues occupy an important place in the glo…
We are grateful to Mr. Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, and Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings. We also listened very carefully to the representative of civil society, Ms. Dina El-Mamoun.
The Security Council has …
We congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for May, and we would like to thank France for its presidency in April. We welcome the participation in this meeting of the Chairperson of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ms. Željka Cvijanović.
We have …
We would like to express our principled disagreement with the presence at this meeting of Mr. Christian Schmidt in his capacity as the so-called “High Representative”. The Security Council has not authorized him in that capacity.
We recall that the Bosnia and Herzegovina issue is on the Council’s a…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing on the situation in the region.
The collective punishment of the entire Palestinian people, in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, has been continuing for a year and half now. With the resumption on 2 March of massive hostilities in t…
At the outset, we would like to voice our fundamental disagreement with the presidency’s approach to inviting delegations to today’s meeting under rules 37 and 39. There are as many as seven of them, and all are members of NATO and the European Union. We have already repeatedly pointed out that invi…
We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, and to the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Joyce Msuya, for the comprehensive overview of the situation in Syria. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for …
We thank Ms. María Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti, for her briefing on the situation in Haiti. We are grateful to Ms. Monica Juma, National Security Adviser to the President of Kenya, for her briefing. We listened closely to the statement delivered by the …
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ms. Hanna Tetteh, for her briefing.
The internal situation in Libya is showing signs of further deterioration against the backdrop of the continuing dua…
