I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting. I also thank Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing.
I would like to start by expressing my Government’s sorrow and deep condolences to all the Missions whose citizens were killed in the terrible crash of Malays…
It is of great importance that the Security Council is having a meeting on the current situation in Ukraine. I would like to thank all members of the Security Council for their statements. I am grateful for their support of our President’s plan for the peaceful settlement of the situation in eastern…
While Ukraine aligns itself with the statement made by the observer of the European Union (A/68/PV.94), we find it appropriate to make a statement from our national perspective.
The fourth review of the implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in 2014 is an important s…
Thank you for convening this very important meeting, Mr. President.
Ukraine aligns itself with the statement delivered by the observer of the European Union. I would also like to make a few specific points in my national capacity.
I would like to take note of the briefing on military helicopters i…
I have listened to the statement made by the representative of the Russian Federation, and I believe that the easiest way for his side to move forward would be as follows. He has told us what we should do, so I should like to tell him what Russia should do.
The Russian Government, the Minister for …
As the Council knows, the Ukrainians are very patient people. We always find a way to agree. But in order to agree, there must be stability. In order to achieve stability, there cannot be a fuelling of instability. I asked many times what hundreds of armed Chechens were doing in Ukraine. What was th…
Thank you, Mr. President, for convening this meeting on the current situation in Ukraine. I thank Mr. Feltman, Under-Secretary- General, for his briefing. I thank all Council members for supporting the elections held by Ukraine on 25 May and for the kind recommendations and encouragement to the new …
I would like to thank the delegation of the Republic of Korea for convening this important meeting today.
Ukraine welcomes the tenth anniversary of resolution 1540 (2004) and the forthcoming 2016 comprehensive review as important milestones and as opportunities to identify realistic goals for the f…
I thank you for convening this meeting, Madam President, and for the opportunity to address the Security Council. I would also like to thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing, and all the members of the Council for their statement.
It has been a month since Russia illegally occupied …
I have come to realize that it is sometimes useless to comment on certain things, since our Russian colleagues will stand by their opinion and represent the situation the way they want, regardless.
That is the reason for the virtual reality that our Russian colleagues have constructed, where they l…
I thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting of the Security Council to discuss the report on the human rights situation in Ukraine. I am grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Ivan Šimonović for presenting the report today.
Today’s meeting is being held with the following fact on ever…
Several issues were raised by our Russian colleague. I would like to answer just one.
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First, Mr. Churkin compared the situation in December and January with the current situation. We must recall that, at that time, the people were speaking out against the banditry of the authori…
I thank you, Madam President, for this opportunity to speak before the Security Council. I thank Council members for understanding the critical situation in Ukraine and for their support.
Before getting into the substance of my statement this evening, I would like start by mentioning that today Chr…
I would like to thank you personally, Madam President, for convening this meeting. I would like to thank all the members of the Council for inviting me to take part in it. I am grateful to the Deputy Secretary-General and the Assistant Secretary-General for their briefings. I would like to extend my…
I thank the Council for convening this meeting and for inviting me.
I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to all Council members who addressed my Mission today with words of condolences to the family of the Ukrainian soldier who was killed yesterday after being shot in his neck when a gr…
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the members of the Security Council for their overwhelming support of the draft resolution contained in document S/2104/189, as well as for their support in trying to resolve the crisis by diplomatic and political means.
I would like to thank all the …
I am speaking in Russian in order to be properly understood. I support what Ambassador Churkin said with regard to the need to speak openly and be extremely honest. I just want to clarify a few issues he raised in his statement. I will be clear.
First, as to the occupation or threat of occupation o…
At the outset, I wish to thank you, Madam President, and all members of the Security Council for having given me the floor and for your important remarks, where I heard broad support for my country. Ukraine counts greatly on the Security Council to exert all possible efforts at the international lev…
I thank you very much, Madam, for agreeing to have this meeting at such short notice. I thank Mr. Eliasson for his comments and for presenting to us the statement of the Secretary- General, which is very promising. What I am going to say now, including the recent information about the developments i…
I have the pleasure of introducing draft resolution A/68/L.21, on Chernobyl, on behalf of the initiators of the draft resolution, namely, Belarus, the Russian Federation and my own delegation, I would like to thank the respective delegations for their active and substantive discussions on the text, …
