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  1. “According to the information available, no States submitted those shipments for review by the Security Council pursuant to resolution 2231 (2015). They therefore did not receive advance case-by-case approval, as required under the provisions of annex B to resolution 2231 (2015). In using Iranian drones to attack civilians, as well as Ukraine’s civilian and critical infrastructure, Russia is violating the United Nations Charter, international humanitarian law and a Security Council resolution. We see sufficient evidence to deem that the transfers of UAVs from Iran to Russia should be considered. Moreover, the international community should be informed of the results of such an investigation. We therefore requested that United Nations experts visit Ukraine at the earliest possible opportunity to inspect the recovered UAVs of Iranian origin.”

    2022-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9167 (2022) · source

  2. “Paragraph 4 of annex B to resolution 2231 (2015) prohibits the transfer from Iran of all items, materials, equipment, goods and technology set out in the annex to document S/2015/546 unless approved by the Security Council on a case-by-case basis. Both Mohajer and Shahed-series UAVs are within the parameters of the annex to document S/2015/546, at least under category II, because they are capable of a range equal to or greater than 300 kilometres. Furthermore, we noted that the Mohajer-series UAV is manufactured by Qods Aviation, which is subject to the assets-freeze provision of paragraph 6 of annex B to resolution 2231 (2015). All States are required to freeze the funds of the financial assets of designated entities.”

    2022-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9167 (2022) · source

  3. “That represents a blatant violation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed by China, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union and the Russian Federation itself and endorsed by the Security Council in resolution 2231 (2015). As the Council is aware, that is why Ukraine officially addressed the presidency of the Security Council on 14 October and requested that the relevant independent investigation be started. In our letter, we drew attention to the alarming situation with respect to the transfers of Mohajer and Shahed-series UAVs from Iran to Russia, specifically in late August.”

    2022-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9167 (2022) · source

  4. “We strongly condemn that unacceptable pressure and threats to reconsider cooperation with the United Nations if the Secretariat uses its authority to investigate implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). The deliberate misuse of the provisions of the Charter to obstruct the investigation is a clear attempt to put pressure on the Secretariat aimed at avoiding its own responsibility. We express our full support for the Secretary-General and the Secretariat, in line with our commitments under the provisions of Article 100 of the United Nations Charter. Last Friday, Ukraine informed the Security Council about the use of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of Iranian origin by Russia in its attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure in my country (see S/PV.9161).”

    2022-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9167 (2022) · source

  5. “We join other States in thanking the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing today. This meeting represents yet another attempt by the Russian Federation to distract attention from its crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity in our country. Eight and a half years of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, including eight months of full-scale invasion, is a blatant violation of the Charter of the United Nations. In that light, Russia’s appeal to the United Nations Charter is hypocritical and cynical. The Russian Federation remains consistent in its practices of constant threats and blackmail — this time against the Secretariat.”

    2022-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9167 (2022) · source

  6. “Its second national action plan will be updated soon, reflecting the consequences of the Russian aggression, as Russian forces in Ukraine have actively targeted women. According to Special Representative Patten, rapes and sexual assaults attributed to Moscow’s forces in Ukraine are part of the Russian military strategy. Ukraine has therefore partnered with the United Nations to prevent and respond to all forms of gender-based violence, including sexual violence, to ensure meaningful justice through holding the perpetrators accountable. And we may well become a model for reparations and compensation for victims of sexual violence in conflict. Today I would like to pay tribute to all women who sacrificed their lives for peace in their own countries. It happens in all corners of the world. It happens every day, and it is happening now.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source

  7. “Olena Zelenska, on holding annual summits of global first ladies and gentlemen, which is a cross-regional platform for soft power to advance dialogue and contribute to building a peaceful future. It is indeed an effective tool. We welcome the important contributions to strengthening women’s resilience and leadership made by Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Pramila Patten, Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, and Ms. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund. Ukraine’s commitment to supporting women remains strong. Resolution 1325 (2000) and the women and peace and security agenda have always been important for our country. Ukraine is the first State Member of the United Nations to adopt a national action plan under conditions of war.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source

  8. “Each of them fulfils an individual rescue mission to save their loved ones. They are also on the front lines of military defence, Women’s participation in the security and defence sector in Ukraine has increased tremendously. Over 38,000 women are serving in a military capacity in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the total number of women in the armed forces reaching 50,000. Over 5,000 are defending our country on the front lines. This is a concrete example of how important women to the defence of their own country. Strengthening women’s leadership around the world is of vital importance, and there are many ways to do that. I would like to mention the initiative of the First Lady of Ukraine, Ms.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source

  9. “During seven months of resistance by the entire Ukrainian nation to the Russian war against our country, women in Ukraine have been shaping their immediate future. Indeed, the current resilience in Ukraine has a particularly female face. Despite the challenges posed by the destruction and shifting economic realities, Ukrainian women are organizing in ways that contribute to peace and security. They lead, and they take deliberate decisions in defence of their communities and their nation in both combat and non-combat roles. They are on the front lines of ensuring continuing education for the children in our country, addressing access to technology, physical and psychological health care and social protection for our people. They bear the sole responsibility for the care of themselves, their children and elderly family members.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source

  10. “We thank the presidency of the Security Council, Gabon, for having convened today’s open debate. We also thank all the briefers for their comprehensive briefings. While the delegation of Ukraine aligns itself with the statements delivered on behalf of the Group of Friends of Women, Peace and Security and the European Union, I would like to add the following remarks in our national capacity. We express our strong solidarity with all the women and girls who at this very moment, despite all the often-life-threatening challenges and difficulties, show incredible courage and leadership in their countries. In Ukraine, we have witnessed that peace and security can be fragile, but what remains incredibly reliable and strong are people — men and women; they can never be defeated.”

    2022-10-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9158Resumption1 (2022) · source

  11. “An ambitious strategy for the development of Ukraine’s relations with African States has been approved. We have been intensifying our dialogue with every country on the continent, including on climate policy. We believe that support for African countries is vital. Despite fighting the ongoing aggression, Ukraine is providing such support and will continue to do so, most recently through our decision to provide 50,000 tons of wheat as humanitarian aid to Ethiopia and Somalia. We remain ready to take action in favour of our common interests.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  12. “We urge the entire global community, States and civil society, businesses and all human beings to switch to a pro-Earth way of thinking without further delay. We believe that it is long past time to consider the entire planet as our common home. The challenges Africa is facing today should leave no one indifferent. We fully support the African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. In that regard, it is particularly important to continue assisting African countries in achieving their commitments and meeting the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, none of our ambitious goals within the United Nations can be achieved until the war of aggression is stopped. It is distracting us and taking away our resources, which is ruining our big ideas. We are strengthening our focus on relations with Africa.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  13. “According to expert estimates, the lives of around 400 million people worldwide, mainly in Africa, depend on the export of Ukrainian food. The Russian aggression against our country has broken supply chains and aggravates the threats that Africa is currently facing owing to climate change. Food insecurity and poverty have increased as a result. Ukraine is dedicated to combating the negative impacts of climate change. We were among the first in Europe to ratify the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and ranked fourth out of 45 States parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in terms of emissions reductions. Ukraine has pledged to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 65 per cent by 2030 and to achieve climate neutrality by 2060.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  14. “As a member of the Group of Friends on Climate and Security, the delegation of Ukraine fully aligns itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Germany on the Group’s behalf. In my national capacity, I would like to thank our briefers for their substantive presentations. Ukraine welcomes today’s debate and expresses its appreciation to Gabon, as President of the Security Council, for convening it. The topic of today’s meeting goes beyond climate and security in Africa and concerns the welfare of all human beings. We live in a globalized world, where a natural disaster or an armed conflict, no matter how distant it may seem, inadvertently affects all of our lives. Ukraine is the key global supplier of wheat, sunflower oil and corn. One of the consequences of Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine is global food shortages.”

    2022-10-12 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9150 (2022) · source

  15. “But one thing did not happen again. There were no pacts with the aggressor. From the very beginning of the war, we have received real help from true friends all over the world. Russia’s capacity to wage a war has been limited by sanctions packages, and we urge the international community to further expand that practice, which is literally saving the lives of Ukrainians. As President Zelenskyy said on the occasion of the anniversary of the Second World War, we will do everything we can to ensure that Ukrainians and other nations throughout the world live freely. We will do everything we can to ensure that the morning of 1 September, the morning of 22 June and the morning of 24 February are never repeated again. We will do everything in our power to ensure that hatred finally loses.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  16. “More than 90 ships have left Ukrainian ports so far, and overall we have exported more than 2 million tons of our foodstuffs by sea from Ukrainian ports. But as long as Russia is able to continue its aggression against Ukraine on land and sea, the global security threat and food crisis situations will remain fragile. Such modern-day evil must be fully disarmed if we are to prevent a repetition of violence and bloodshed. That is a key lesson from the Second World War, which began 83 years ago on 1 September 1939. People believed that it would be possible to avoid any repetition of those terrible crimes and such a cruel war, but a similar morning dawned again for millions of Ukrainians on 24 February 2022. Once again an aggressor is trying to seize territories in Europe through mass murder and terror by exploiting the ideology of hatred.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  17. “On 23 August, the Krasnodar City Department for Family and Childhood Affairs in the Russian Federation publicly reported that more than 1,000 Ukrainian children from Mariupol had been illegally transferred to outsiders in the Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerovo and Altai regions. More than 300 children are currently being held in specialized institutions in the Krasnodar region. We reiterate that all Ukrainian children who have been illegally displaced to the territory of Russia must be returned to their parents or legal guardians. Until that happens, that crime demands a powerful response from the international community. In the face of an existential threat to the Ukrainian State and people, we have continued to contribute to averting the global food crisis and fulfilling in good faith our obligations under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  18. “Needless to say, the curriculum that Russia is trying to impose in the occupied territories of Ukraine does not provide for the study of Ukrainian language and literature or the history of Ukraine. Since most Ukrainian teachers in the occupied territories refuse to collaborate, the Russian occupiers are trying to replace local staff with people from Russia. Children from the occupied territories are being transferred to Russia and illegally given up for adoption. The forcible transfer of children from one group to another with intent to destroy, whether in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group is a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  19. “Since the beginning of the invasion, Russian forces have damaged 2,177 educational institutions, leaving 284 of them totally destroyed. Due to the security threats, only 56 per cent of educational institutions are prepared to provide in-person learning for their students. A primary concern is Russia’s attempts to expand its practices of militarization and the Russification of education to the territories it has occupied since February, with a focus on erasing Ukrainian ethnic identity. According to available data, approximately 200,000 children of school age remain in the occupied territories. School principals and staff there are subject to pressure and intimidation aimed at forcing them to follow Russian school programmes.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  20. “So-called filtration camps have been also set up in the cities of Makiivka, Snizhne, Torez, Shakhtarsk, Khartsysk, Novoazovsk, Berdyansk and in the villages of Nikolske, Bezimenne and Yuryivka. According to the Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, only about 16,000 deported citizens have been able to return to Ukraine. According to their accounts, most of those transferred to Russia have neither means nor travel documents, so that tens of thousands of those who want to return home are literally trapped in Russia. In most of our countries, this is the time to go back to school. Regrettably, the school year in Ukraine has started against a backdrop of rocket and artillery bombings by Russia, with education facilities a regular target.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  21. “In reality, those whom the occupiers suspect of disloyalty — because of their political views or potential affiliation with the Ukrainian army, Government, media or civil-society groups — disappear after so-called filtration into the grey areas of occupied Donetsk and Luhansk. Families are separated and children are grabbed and taken away from their parents. According to the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, some of those people were later held at a tragically notorious site in Olenivka, where Russia killed 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war, and in Donetsk. Many detainees were reportedly tortured, and some were summarily executed.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  22. “Our people are being transferred to isolated and depressed regions of Siberia and the Far East. The scale of the crime is outrageous. According to available data, nearly 2.5 million Ukrainians, including approximately 38,000 children, have been transferred from the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine. By blocking evacuation routes to mainland Ukraine, Russia simply leaves the population of the occupied areas with no choice but to go either into Russian territory or occupied Crimea. Russia is indeed the main recipient of forcibly deported Ukrainians. As part of the forced evacuation and deportation process, Russia detains refugees in so-called filtration camps, extra-legal facilities that have been widely used by Russia to terrorize the civilian population on a pretext of identifying dangerous persons.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  23. “In recent days, Ukrainian forces liberated territories and settlements in the Kherson, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. The Russian occupation forces consider terrorizing local populations to be an important part of their attempts to prepare the ground for fake referendums. But broad active and passive resistance in the occupied territories, the disdain of the local population towards the occupiers, the small number of collaborators and, first and foremost, the intensive actions by the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already forced Russia to abandon its plans to hold such referendums in September, as earlier planned by Moscow. We have no doubt that they will fail with any new deadline as well. As a part of its aggression, Russia continues its forcible deportation of Ukrainian citizens to its territory.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  24. “Back in 2013, Neparatov was a leader of a gang, sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing five people and committing armed assaults. The murderer joined the Russian occupation forces in Donbas, was killed a short time thereafter and then awarded with a Russian high military decoration. No moral constraints, the readiness to kill and to terrorize civilians — those are the personnel welcomed now by Russian military recruiters. That is the face of the Russian army. Today, almost 200 days since the invasion started, we are more than confident in Ukraine’s victory, despite the fact that the enemy is still on our land, and we still have a long way to go to liberate the entire territory. We have no doubt that it will happen. In fact, it is already happening.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source

  25. “I recognize the representative of terrorist Russia in the permanent seat of the Soviet Union I would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, Assistant Secretary-General Ilze Brands Kehris and human rights expert Oleksandra Drik for their substantive and truthful presentations. The horrific facts presented to us on the human suffering inflicted by the Russian occupiers proves again that the only way end this war is to hold the aggressor accountable for its criminal actions — criminal, indeed, due to both the immense record of crimes in the occupied territories of Ukraine and the criminal background of many Russian soldiers recruited recently for the war against Ukraine. The story of the Russian murderer Neparatov is one of many that highlights the level of degradation of Russia’s armed forces.”

    2022-09-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9126 (2022) · source