We are grateful to Mr. Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, for his briefing.
The situation in the Middle East is deeply concerning. Regrettably, the unprecedented scale a…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2767 (2024), prepared by the British penholders, concerning the establishment of the new African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM). At the outset, we would like to thank the leadership and peacekeepers of the African Union Transit…
I simply wanted to ask, Madam President, whether you just read out a summary of the statement delivered by the United States representative at the beginning of this meeting.
Given that this is your last meeting in the Security Council, Mr. President, allow me too to be very direct. However, we have always been direct with you — but as it turns out, you have only been direct today, as you have just announced.
If the United States had not supported and sponsored the 2014…
We are grateful to Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for her briefing. We also thank Mr. Saad Bahr Al-Din, the Sultan of Dar Masalit, for the information he provided. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of
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We thank Secretary-General Guterres and the briefers for their contributions to the discussion.
The Russian Federation attaches great importance to the development of advanced technologies designed to serve the good of humankind, including artificial intelligence (AI). At the same time, we are invi…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
We listened to Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo with astonishment. It was a very peculiar briefing from a senior official of the United Nations, based on press statements that the Unite…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his detailed briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We listened attentively to Ms. Shira Efron and Mr. Michael Levy.
We express our sympathy to Mr. Levy and his family, as well as t…
We wish to state for the record our principled disagreement with the United States presidency’s proposal to invite Ukraine to participate in this meeting, as well as, under rule 39, the representatives of the European Union and of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Conflict Armament Research.
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We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Mrs. Vanessa Frazier, Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and Permanent Representative of Malta, for their briefings. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mrs. Frazier and her team on su…
We would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, and the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mr. Tom Fletcher. We also listened to the assessments by the Chair of the Syrian Negotiating Committee, Mr. Bader Jamous, and the representative of civil society, Ms.…
We see today’s meeting as a desperate attempt by the sponsors and puppeteers of the Kyiv regime to keep the issue of Ukraine afloat in the Security Council at a time when it seems clear that most of the international community is losing interest in it. That is no surprise, considering that President…
We thank Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for her assessment of the current situation in the country. The Russian Federation has consistently supported the activities of UNAM…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Mohamed Al Hassan for his briefing on the situation in the friendly Republic of Iraq, against the backdrop of the regional escalation of hostilities in the Middle East. We congratulate him on
his appointment to this esteeme…
“But they are children”, said the Ukrainian public with a smile when children danced on Maidan Square in 2013, chanting “Hang the Russkies high” and hurling Molotov cocktails at law enforcement officers. “Buttheyarechildren” — all one word — became a meme. In an ordinary Ukrainian village where ev…
Your statement today, Mr. President was a glaring confirmation of the hypocritical, or rather the unsavoury, nature of the foreign policy being pursued by the outgoing United States Administration. You could not summon the courage to condemn a clear terrorist attack against civilians in Syrian citie…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, for his report on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, which is facing a terrorist attack such as we have not seen since 2022 by fighters from the Council-listed Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, formerly known as Jabhat Al…
We would like to thank the United Kingdom for presiding over the Security Council for the busy
month of November and wish the United States delegation every success as it begins its presidency of the Council this month.
We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for sharing her assessment o…
Before this meeting begins, I wish to draw attention to the totally inadmissible policy of the United States presidency, which, regrettably, has been abusing its powers since the very first day.
This meeting was convened at the request of the three African members of the Council and Guyana, and the…
We appreciate the briefings by Gilles Michaud and Lisa Doughten. We also listened attentively to the statement by the civil society representative.
Providing humanitarian assistance in a situation of armed conflict is one of the most dangerous activities. Ensuring the security of humanitarian perso…
