We have no doubt as to who sits in the Soviet seat behind the Russian Federation nameplate. The General Assembly gave a clear answer to that question. It is the aggressor State. There is not a shred of doubt.
I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organ…
I thank you, Mr. President, Council members, Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and High Representative Nakamitsu. I should also acknowledge the presence of a separate category here — a representative of the aggressor State who sits in the seat of the Soviet Union in the Security Council, the status o…
Twelve days of an all- out Russian invasion in Ukraine, including from the territory of Belarus, have brought us to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe of a potentially global nature. I would like to thank all the countries that are accepting Ukrainian refugees and have been letting other foreig…
First of all, I would like to express my gratitude for the immediate reaction by the Under-Secretary-General to the lies of the Russian representative. We are all accustomed to the lies.
“We have survived the night that could have stopped the history of Ukraine and Europe,” said the President of Uk…
First of all, I would like to thank the Security Council for addressing this urgent issue. With every new day, the unprovoked Russian war against Ukraine increases the human suffering across the entire country.
I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to the Secretary-General for his power…
I would like to express my gratitude to those Council members that have supported the request to call for an emergency special session of the General Assembly.
I immediately express my regret that, once again, rule 20 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure has not been properly applied by …
I shall now continue with my statement.
I am saddened, however, that a small handful of members seem to still be tolerating the war. No complex historical context can be used to justify what is going on. I would say to some that it is exactly because of the safety of their nationals right now in Uk…
I will not dignify the Russian diabolical script — which resembles a letter of application for an upscale seat in hell — by commenting on it.
I would like to use this opportunity to thank the parents of every Ambassador here; to thank the people of the democratic nations who put these Ambassadors i…
As I said, Sir, relinquish your duties as President of the Council; call President Putin and call Foreign Minister Lavrov to stop the aggression.
I welcome the decision of some members of the Council to meet as soon as possible to consider the necessary decision that would condemn the aggression th…
Russia declared war. It is the responsibility of this organ to stop the war. I therefore call on everyone here to do everything possible to stop the war. Or should I play the video with the President of Russia declaring war?
Before I try to deliver parts of the statement that I brought here tonight — most of which has already become useless since 10 p.m. New York time — I would like to cite Article 4, paragraph 1, of the Charter of the United Nations, which states:
“Membership in the United Nations is open to all other…
It is with unease that I will now remove my mask, and it is not because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We are all vaccinated; there are vaccines for COVID-19. It is because of the virus that has so far no vaccine — the virus that hit the United Nations and the virus that is spread by the Kre…
On this day seven years ago, the Ukrainian city of Debaltseve sustained a full-fledged offensive by Russian regular troops and their proxies. Heavy artillery and rocket shelling did not spare the Ukrainian military or civilians. All that happened despite the disengagement line agreed by Ukraine and …
I would like to immediately apologize that my statement may not be within the five-minute limit, especially given the length of the Russian intervention.
I would like to express gratitude to the Norwegian presidency for convening this briefing of the Security Council, of the need for which I spoke …
The Holocaust is a common tragedy and a source of guilt for humankind as a whole. More than one and a half million Ukrainian Jews were killed during the dark times of modern history. Millions of Ukrainians sacrificed themselves and made a tremendous contribution to the victory over Nazism by their e…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate Ambassador Mohamed Said Doualeh on the success of his chairmanship of one of the most deliberative and human-centric Main Committees of the General Assembly.
It is of particular concern that in the seventy-sixth year of the United Nations existence, gross…
We have just adopted resolution 76/68, on the culture of peace, and agreed to promote a culture of peace at the national, regional and international levels and to ensure that peace and non-violence are fostered at all levels. And now, almost immediately, we have the chance to prove the worth of that…
My delegation would like to express its gratitude to the President for convening today’s debate, and for his readiness to ensure that the process of reforming the Security Council gets the necessary support. Ahead of the new cycle of intergovernmental negotiations, I would like to reiterate several …
At the outset, since I am taking the floor for the first time during the current session, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your assumption of your important post, and to assure you of my delegation’s full support.
The Russian delegation is once again trying to make a kerfuffle of…
This is the fourth time that the Russian delegation has demanded a recorded vote on the decision to retain agenda item 65, entitled “The situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine”, on the agenda of the General Assembly session and to include it in the draft agenda of its seventy-s…
