Once again today, we see in the list of
speakers, in addition to the representative of the European Union (EU), the representatives of the European Union countries Finland, Poland and Estonia, who are obviously going to be called upon to make a sizeable contribution to today’s discussion. But we be…
We support Algeria’s initiative to convene today’s emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss the unbearable humanitarian situation in the north of the Gaza Strip. We would like to thank the Acting Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Joyce Msuya, for her ov…
We thank Special Envoy Hans Grundberg and Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya for their briefings. We also listened carefully to the statement by Ms. Jumaan.
The level of the tensions in Yemen continues unabated. Moreover, the situation is likely to worsen, because Y…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Carlos Ruiz Massieu for his briefing on the situation in Colombia and the work of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Luis Mu…
We have heard it many times before; I have a strong feeling of déjà vu. That is the only thing that the
United States representative has to say in response to fair criticism about the United States role in the Middle East crisis.
We note France’s initiative to request today’s meeting following the intensification of hostilities in the Republic of Lebanon, a friend of the Russian Federation. We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for their briefings regarding alarming…
We thank Algeria and Slovenia for convening today’s meeting to discuss the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We also thank the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the Director of the Off…
We thank Ms. Stephanie Koury, Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs for Libya and Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, and Ambassador Yamazaki Kazuyuki, Permanent Representative of Japan, for his briefing in his capacity as the Chair of the Security Council…
We would like to ask our French colleague, who reproached us for insisting on the use of the term “terrorist act” with regard to the Nord Stream sabotage, why he is not levelling similar accusations against the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Olaf Scholz, who on 14 September publi…
Last week, on 26 September, two years elapsed since the unprecedented terrorist attack against a civilian cross-border pipeline infrastructure facility, namely, the explosion of two branches of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the international waters of the Baltic Sea in the exclusive economic zone …
We would like to congratulate Slovenia on completing its presidency of the Council in September, which is not an easy month for any presidency; we also congratulate Switzerland on assuming the presidency of the Council in October.
We thank the Secretary-General for his assessment of the situation i…
As for the eloquent British Foreign Minister who lectured us about imperialism — look who is talking. I recommend that he read our amendment to the Pact for the Future (General Assembly resolution 79/1), based on the Article 2, paragraph 7, of the Charter of the United Nations. Let him have a look a…
Before we begin this meeting, I wish to draw attention to a number of issues that are of fundamental importance for understanding procedural issues.
As is well known, from the beginning, the programme of work of the Slovenian presidency for the month of September included no high-level briefings on…
We support the initiative of the delegation of Algeria to convene today’s meeting in connection with the most recent and dangerous wave of escalation in the Middle East region. We have thoroughly examined the concerns of both Lebanon and Iran, which were set out in the letters circulated yesterday. …
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Geir Pedersen, and the Director of the Coordination Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Ramesh Rajasingham, for the overview of the political and humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic…
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the river Jordan. We also thank Ms. Helen Clark for her briefing.
Yesterday the Ge…
There is a practice in existence in the Council. The President cannot violate that practice, and neither can anyone else. Making a decision on changing the format must be reached by agreement, facilitated by the presidency, with all members of the Security Council. That was not done. The format of t…
We are pleased to welcome you, Madam Minister, in your capacity as President of the Security Council. We thank Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for her assessment of the current situatio…
We thank the Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, Ms. Sigrid Kaag, and the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, Mr. Moreira da Silva, for their briefings on the situation in the Strip and their efforts to ensure humanitarian access to the terr…
The meetings we convene to discuss Western arms supplies to the Kyiv regime and the role of these weapons in undermining the efforts to find a peaceful
solution to the Ukrainian crisis allows everyone to obtain a clear understanding of a real situation there.
Since our most recent meeting (see S/P…
