We thank Roger Waters for his statement, his analysis of the history of the Ukrainian crisis and his assessment of the significance of the Minsk agreements to the relevant diplomatic efforts.
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 2202 (2015), which endorsed the package of …
We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, and the
We note that the contours of the domestic political landscape in Syria are coming into relief, and although we still lack many elements to draw comprehensive conclusions about further prospects of de…
We thank Vladimir Voronkov and Ms. Gherman for their briefings on the activities of United Nations agencies for countering Da’esh entrusted to them. We highly value their efforts and we will continue to provide them with comprehensive support.
The latest thematic report of the Secretary-General (S/…
We would like to thank the Algerian delegation for convening today’s briefing on the issue of the fate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the context of the ban on its activities in the occupied Palestinian territory following the Knesset…
We thank Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General Vivian van de Perre for her briefing. We welcome the participation in this meeting of Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the representatives of other countries that reque…
We thank Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Bintou Keita and Joyce Msuya for their briefings. We welcome the participation in the meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, and the representatives of Rwanda, Angola, South Africa, Uruguay and Bur…
We welcome your participation, Mr. Minister, in today’s briefing as President of the Security Council.
Russia has consistently advocated strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States. Both organizations pursue the same goals of ensuring peace and security at a g…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s Security Council meeting — supported by Algeria in its national capacity, as well as Pakistan and Somalia — to discuss the disastrous situation of children in Gaza. We are grateful to Mr. Fletcher for responding to our calls and partic…
We have just approved the list of briefers for this meeting. I would like to draw members’ attention to the fact that Ms. Catherine Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF, is absent from that list, although her participation was requested by our delegation and supported by the Algerian presidency. We…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, for his report (S/2024/968).
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Luis Murillo, and the representative of the high contracting party, …
We would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. María Isabel Salvador, and the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Ms. Ghada Waly, for their briefings on the situation in Haiti.
Time and again, after such briefings, we must regretfully adm…
We would like thank Algeria for organizing this meeting on such an important issue. We are also grateful to all our briefers.
The security situation on the African continent remains complicated. We are witnessing a further increase in the activity of terrorist and criminal groups. Almost
We are se…
We welcome you, Sir, presiding over the quarterly open debate of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. We note the active role of the Algerian delegation, which voices the Arab world’s aspirations in the Security Council, in keeping the attenti…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix and Major General Patrick Gauchat, Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), for their comprehensive briefings on the situations in the areas of operation of Blue Helmets in Leba…
I will have to interrupt the dull anti-Russian mantras of the Western members of the Security Council. We are, after all, gathered together here today precisely to listen to those mantras, even though all this is nothing but a box-ticking exercise, needed to somehow maintain the illusion that the Uk…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Joyce Msuya, for their briefings.
We believe that the Council’s main objective where Yemen is concerned is to do everything possible to facilitate the pr…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on the resolution prepared by our Greek and American colleagues on the situation in the Red Sea (resolution 2768 (2025)). Let me start by saying that this document is the logical extension of the original resolution 2722 (2024), about which we had serio…
We welcome the participation in this meeting of the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
We listened to the briefing delivered by Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari. We regret the fact that, once again, we heard in it neither a comprehensive analysis of the …
We would like to thank Special Envoy Pedersen and the head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Tom Fletcher, for their briefings on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, developments in which are being closely followed by the entire international community.
Our friends,…
We welcome you, Mr. President, and we wish the Algerian presidency every success. We also welcome the newly elected members of the Security Council.
We support the initiative of the delegation of Algeria to convene today’s meeting of the Council to discuss the deteriorating situation in the Gaza St…
