We propose voting on whether the meeting should be held today or not. Obviously, we assume that the issue that should be put to the vote is whether today’s meeting should be held in principle. We have not yet adopted the agenda for today’s meeting. If we had, the meeting would take place. But that h…
I would just like to explain that the item on our agenda, “The situation in the Middle East”, is an existing agenda item and that of course we are not against it per se. What we are against is holding today’s meeting in the format that has been proposed. Therefore, I would ask the President to formu…
The Russian Federation is opposed to holding today’s meeting, as we immediately informed our colleagues on Friday, 16 March. We see no justification for such a meeting, since human rights is not a subject on the Security Council’s agenda. That is what the Human Rights Council deals with in its work …
As far as I know, today’s meeting was not scheduled in the Security Council’s agreed programme of work for this month. Our delegation would be extremely grateful to you, Mr. President, if you could explain what exactly we are supposed to discuss at today’s meeting and whom the Council plans to invit…
I am not planning to engage in a detailed discussion with my British colleague. I have already said everything I wanted to say in my statement.
I just want to emphasize one thing, which is that we have not received a formal request, in line with the
Chemical Weapons Convention, to which we were an…
Yesterday, after the letter from the British Prime Minister (S/2018/218, annex) was circulated to the Security Council, the United Kingdom asked that closed consultations be held. It was we who asked the President of the Security Council to change the meeting format from closed consultations to an o…
We would like to thank the Secretary-General for his briefing and his detailed information on what we asked for. We particularly appreciated his words when he said that there should be only one agenda for all of us — ending this crisis.
Russia supported the Security Council’s adoption of resolution…
It is symbolic that you are presiding over the Security Council’s meeting on International Women’s Day, Madam President, and we congratulate you and all the women of the world on this holiday. We remember your Permanent Representative’s appeal for seeing as many women as possible at today’s meeting,…
We are grateful to Mr. Angelino Alfano, Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy, for his substantive briefing on the work of the OSCE and the issues on its agenda.
We have always proceeded from the assumption …
We welcome Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in her new role, and are grateful for her comprehensive briefing. We hope that as the new Head of United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of …
We thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock and Under-Secretary-General Feltman for their briefings. By the way, at the outset I would like to take advantage of this opportunity to ask Mr. Lowcock where the United Nations is getting its evidence and data on deaths in Damascus, for instance. According t…
The Russian Federation supported the adoption of resolution 2404 (2018), extending the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau. In taking that decision, we were guided by the importance of maintaining consensus within the Security Council. We also took into acc…
We would like to thank Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed and Mr. John Ging for their briefings, and we commend Mr. Ahmed for his work in his post and his contribution, as well as his efforts to reach a settlement to the conflict in Yemen. We also want to thank the Permanent Representative of Peru for his…
We welcome the adoption of resolution 2402 (2018), on the extension of the mandate of the Panel of Experts on Yemen mandated by Security Council resolution 2342 (2017) and the renewal of sanctions pursuant to resolution 2140 (2014), and we thank
all the delegations that supported it. Its unanimous …
The Russian Federation will not be able to support draft resolution S/2018/156, proposed by our British colleagues, on the extension of the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to paragraph 19 of resolution 2140 (2014) on sanctions against Yemen, but…
Following lengthy consultations, during which the overwhelming majority of delegations demonstrated a sincere focus on seeking joint solutions — for which we thank them — the Security Council has unanimously adopted the humanitarian resolution 2401 (2018), on Syria. I wish to particularly thank the …
We fail to understand, Sir, why you have proposed limiting the statement of the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic on the important issue under discussion. His country is directly involved and where everything being discussed is taking place. We must afford an opportunity for the representat…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, for the prompt response to our delegation’s proposal to convene a special meeting on the situation in eastern Ghouta, in Syria. That certainly does not mean that other problematic areas require any less attention. In particular, not long ago, at our initiative,…
I am pleased to see you, Sir, presiding over the Security Council. We know the significance of today’s date and that it coincides with a momentous occasion. We are also grateful to the two Secretary-Generals for their participation in today’s meeting. I am very happy to see Mr. Ban Ki-moon among us.…
I would first like to express our appreciation to you, Sir, as President of the Security Council, to my colleagues on the Council and to everyone in this Chamber today for the tribute to the memory of Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, the late Permanent Representative of Russia, exactly a year since he was …
