We thank Mr. Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, for their detailed briefings on the situation in Syria.
We consider today’s emergency meeting, which was requested by our Algeria…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Caroline Ziadeh, for her briefing on the situation in the province and the assessments she shared. We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Marko Đurić, in this meeting.…
Before I begin, I would like to note once again the unacceptable practice promoted by the members of the European Union (EU) of inviting an excessive number of delegations representing the EU and NATO, under rule 37. As we have emphasized on many occasions, there is no added value brought to the wor…
We would like to thank the UNICEF Executive Director, Ms. Catherine Russell, and the Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières, Mr. Christopher Lockyear, for their briefings. We welcome the participation in this meeting by the Permanent Representatives of the Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.
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I was not going to take the floor, even though I could have taken the floor on a point of order. First of all, I do not recall anyone asking Ms. Kallas any questions that she had to answer. Also, I think you know, Madam President, as President of the Council — and if you do not, let me remind you — …
Today’s discussion of the United Nations relations with the European Union (EU) and the role of the latter in international efforts to ensure peace and security is taking place in a special context. We can see that, by the beginning of 2025, the degradation of the EU from an economic project — desig…
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 assessment of the current situation in the country. The Russian Federation has consistently supported UNAMA’s activities carried out und…
We thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for her briefing.
We paid particular attention to those passages in the monthly report by Mr. Fernando Arias, Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), …
We congratulate Denmark on assuming the presidency of the Security Council, and we wish you every success, Madam President. We would like to thank our Chinese friends for their excellent presidency in the month of February. We also thank Special Envoy Hans Grundberg and Under-Secretary-General for H…
We are grateful to Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for her briefing. We welcome the Permanent Representative of Sudan Mr. Al-Harith Idriss Mohamed, as well as the representatives of Angola, Egypt and Kenya, who are participating in…
We would like to thank Ms. Sigrid Kaag, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, ad interim, for her detailed briefing on the situation in the region. We listened attentively to Mr. Levy and to the personal testimony of Ms. Argamani.
What happened on 7 October 2023 and thereafter in I…
We acknowledge the constructive changes in the United States position on the Ukrainian conflict, and, as we understand it, the resolution that we considered today (resolution 2774 (2025)) is an attempt to implement that. We also understand the rationale of the authors in offering a short and general…
Today we once again see in the Chamber, under rule 37, a sizeable landing party of Ukraine’s cheerleaders from Europe, comprised of so-called “ministers” of so-called “foreign affairs”, whose names I do not even have time to remember. Frankly speaking, I am not even trying to remember. The only thin…
In general, we consider the United States draft resolution on the Ukrainian crisis (S/2025/112) to be a common-sense initiative and a step in the right direction, which reflects the will of the new Administration in the White House to make a real contribution to a peaceful settlement of the conflict…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of the resolution submitted by France on the deteriorating situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (resolution 2773 (2025)).
It is an important decision for all of us and, first and foremost, for the Congolese civilian population. Its adoption wa…
We thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, for their briefings. We welcome the participation in the meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ms. Thérèse Kayikwamba …
We are grateful to the Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, for her briefing.
We welcome the appointment of Ms. Hanna Tetteh as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL…
We welcome the participation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China and other Ministers and senior representatives in today’s open debate. We consider the theme proposed by the Chinese presidency highly relevant. It affords us a good opportunity to consider through a g…
Today’s meeting speaks volumes. I wish to take this opportunity to thank our European colleagues and their allies for the fact that today, in their statements, they have yet again eloquently demonstrated European diplomacy’s complete lack of ties to reality and their inability to in any way whatsoev…
The Russian Federation abstained during the vote on the United States-drafted resolution (resolution 2772 (2025)) and the extension of the mandate of the Panel of Experts on the Sudan established pursuant to Security Council resolution 1591 (2005) on Darfur, Sudan. We are not the only party that had…
