I suppose that most members of the Security Council expected the Georgian representative to become emotional. However, today we see the representative of the Russian Federation becoming very emotional about the facts, about the legal analysis and about the consequences of this meeting. I would like …
First of all, I should like to express my appreciation for the convening of this meeting. I should also like to extend my thanks to the representatives of the Department of Political Affairs and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations for their briefings.
My request to the President of the Securi…
I have a very simple question, but before posing that question I want to say that the representative of the Russian Federation referred to the massive humanitarian intervention, of a kind that had not been seen before, which they are performing in Georgia. I just want to assure Mr. Churkin that the …
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting.
In my previous addresses to the Council, we asked this body to act swiftly to stop the aggression that my country was facing. Unfortunately, the state of affairs in Georgia has not changed, despite the ceasefire agreement reached a few days ago.…
I would like to make a brief comment. As I heard Ambassador Churkin talking, the question asked and the answer that was received, for me, confirm that what the Russian Federation is seeking through this military aggression and invasion is to change the democratically elected Georgian Government. But…
First of all, let me express our gratitude towards the majority — the near- totality — of the members of the Security Council for their observations. I also want to express our appreciation to the Under-Secretary-General and the Assistant Secretary-General for their observations and their briefings.…
For the past 12 hours, the inhuman and indiscriminate aerial bombardment of Georgian territory has continued. The scale of the devastating destruction and loss of innocent life has yet to be assessed. An armed invasion by Russian ground troops has already been transformed into a full-scale occupatio…
First of all, I would like to address one question to my colleague, Ambassador Churkin: Are you ready to stop the fighter jets that are in the air, which will soon be bombing my comrades in Georgia?
What will the Security Council do about this now? How are we going to address this? We all know that…
In response, when I made a statement that Georgian authorities never targeted the Russian Federation’s peacekeepers, that means that we never targeted the peacekeepers. Those who were targeted were mercenaries from the Russian Federation and also those who were actually shooting at and shelling Geor…
I want to express my gratitude to the members of the Security Council, who are truly concerned about the situation and the deterioration in Georgia.
First, I would like to make a few comments, on the statement of the Russian Federation’s representative, and then I have to make an urgent statement b…
Very briefly, I want to reiterate a few issues which were raised by my very respected colleague, Ambassador Churkin. First of all, I probably did not make myself quite clear: I was saying that the Russian side had explained to the Georgian side that they had no control over the South Ossetian regime…
Let me express my gratitude to the members of the Security Council for
this opportunity to address them. Today’s special Council meeting is being held to consider the grave escalation of the situation in the Tskhinvali region of Georgia. First, I will reflect on the recent events that have led to t…
Today, for the second time, the Council is holding a special meeting to discuss the issue related to my country. Only 12 hours ago, in this Chamber, I stated that there were disturbing signs that Georgia is facing a well-calculated provocation to escalate the situation in order to justify a premedit…
Today, Georgia presents a draft resolution (A/62/L.45) that emphasizes the right, necessity and urgency of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia, Georgia, to return to their homes and places of original residence, despite the lack of positive developments in the political se…
On behalf of the Group of Eastern European States, I address this meeting of the General Assembly in order to convey our condolences and pay a tribute to the late Prime Minister of Armenia, Mr. Andranik Margaryan, who passed away on 25 March.
The members of the Group of Eastern European States exte…
I am honoured to address this special meeting of the General Assembly on the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of transatlantic slave trade on behalf of the Group of Eastern European States.
The spring of 1807, two hundred years ago, marked the beginning of a new era and a new internationa…
I just want to clarify one thing. Does the rejection of paragraph 52 of the report of the General Committee mean that item 42 of the provisional agenda will be included in the agenda of the sixty-first session?
I should like to make only a few remarks. First, this is not a new item; it was discussed yesterday in the General Committee, which did not support it. However, we, the fully independent, sovereign States of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and the Republic of Moldova (GUAM), have brought the issue of p…
I welcome the opportunity to appear here before the sixty-first session of the General Assembly to underline the importance that the States members of the GUAM Group (Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine) attach to the inclusion of the agenda item on protracted conflicts in the G…
The Georgian delegation wishes to welcome the High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development as a much- needed step towards placing migration issues on the international agenda.
In today’s world of globalization and interdependency, every country is affected to a certain extent by t…
