At the outset, we would like to express our gratitude for the convening of today’s meeting. We thank Secretary-General António Guterres for his assessment of progress in the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda. We listened with interest to the briefing by Ms. Phumzile Mlambo- N…
I have asked for the floor in order to make a statement on item 64 of the draft agenda for the seventy- fourth session of the General Assembly, “The situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine”.
The very title of this item distorts reality and confuses people about the nature of th…
The source of the concept under discussion was the consensus outcome document of the 2005 World Summit (resolution 60/1). However, since then, States have been unable to agree on a common interpretation of the meaning of its provisions.
Moreover, references to the application of the concept with re…
My delegation has taken the floor in order to explain to the members of the General Assembly our position of principle with regard to the proposal of the Ukrainian delegation to once again introduce this politicized item into the agenda of the next General Assembly session.
What the Ukrainian deleg…
I would like to thank you, Sir, for having convened this meeting. We also wish to thank
Mr. Voronkov and Ms. Coninsx for their in-depth analysis of the situation regarding the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Recent reports have focused, quite rightly, on fundamental …
We welcome the presence of the new leadership of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals — President Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz — to the Chamber and thank them for their detailed reports (S/2019/417, annexes I and II).
Given the particular circumstances, such words of gratit…
We thank Mr. Khan for his second briefing to the Security Council on the report of the Special Adviser (see S/2019/407).
The work of the Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is an important element of the counter-terrorism…
I will begin my statement in a less than traditional way, with some words of regret. We regret the fact that, for the second year in a row, debates on this issue have been moved to the General Assembly through a vote. The interactive dialogue format that prevailed prior to 2018 has been relegated to…
Russia supported today’s resolution 2475 (2019), as we share the document’s humanitarian principles and its aims to improve support and protection for persons with disabilities in areas of conflict. However, we feel compelled to point out that a number of its provisions nonetheless go beyond the man…
I will be brief this morning. We have still not seen any progress in the investigation into the situation in Darfur, and the status of the accused has remained the same. Nor will we comment on the internal situation in the Sudan. The Security Council has other, appropriate formats for those purposes…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, and your Kuwaiti colleagues for the invitation to address the issue of missing persons in armed conflict. We are grateful to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as well as to the Director of Operations and Advocacy of the O…
Russia has always consistently advocated the generally accepted principles and norms of international law, including the principles of equality and self-determination of peoples, which still play a key role in today’s world. Russia, as the successor to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, has si…
We attach great importance to our regular meetings with the Chairs of the three Security Council Committees with mandates in counter-terrorism, the Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and the Taliban and associated…
We are grateful for the convening of today’s
meeting, and we thank the current and former Chairs of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), Ambassador Guillermo Fernández de Soto Valderrama, of Colombia, and Ambassador Ion Jinga, of Romania, for their informative briefings (see A/73/PV.81) and diligent…
Every six months for eight years now, we have listened to briefings from the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the investigation
of the situation in Libya. Today is the seventeenth report in a row. From one year to the next in this Chamber we are assured that the ICC is the in…
I would like to congratulate everyone here on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the oldest and one of the most authoritative bodies in the United Nations system. We are pleased that the ILO has continued to strengthen its position as a univers…
We welcome you, Sir, and Germany, in your capacity as President of the Council, and we thank France for a very productive presidency in March. We are also grateful to our briefers, Mr. Lowcock, Mr. Maurer and Ms. Modirzadeh, for their very interesting comments.
The formulation of a body of rules re…
It is late, so I will not take much of the Council members’ time. I simply wish to comment on the statement made by the representative of Ukraine.
He once again told the old tall tale about Russian aggression, but among other things he accused my country of violating the International Convention fo…
I have asked for the floor to speak about draft resolution III, entitled “Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine”.
The draft resolution before the Assembly is one of a series of so-called country-specific resolutions of the Third Committee…
We thank the Côte d’Ivoire presidency for taking the initiative to convene this briefing of the Council on the very topical issue of combating drug trafficking in West Africa. We also thank Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for his particip…
