The Russian delegation attaches great importance to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. We have repeatedly stated that this topic requires serious and careful consideration, especially given the fact that radical approaches have …
The Russian Federation understands the critical importance of halting Pyongyang’s nuclear and
missile programmes, which are unacceptable to us. The launch of ballistic missiles without warning from North Korean territory poses tremendous risks to maritime and air transit in the region and a serious…
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s meeting. We have found the briefing by the Assistant Secretary-General, Ms. Bintou Keita, to be quite useful. We welcome the efforts made by the Secretary-General in the area of increasing the effectiveness of training and the capacity-building of …
We are very grateful to the briefers, Mr. Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Mr. Umarov, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan, for their thorough analysis of the evolving situation…
Our delegation voted in favour of resolution 2396 (2017). We share the view that the mass outflow of fighters from areas of armed conflict, first and foremost from Syria and Iraq, entails additional threats to security and requires an appropriate response from the Council. We consider that this docu…
The Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and its Executive Directorate (CTED) have unique experience and authority in the area of counter-terrorism. Their job is to ensure the effective monitoring of the implementation of the Security Council’s decisions on counter-terrorism. My delegation supported th…
We would like to draw the attention of our Ukrainian colleagues to the fact that there is a mechanism to observe the situation in the south- east of Ukraine — the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. Every day, and sometimes even twice a day, it …
We encourage the representative of the Ukraine to respect the Security Council and its members. We do not want to get into a senseless polemic, but Ukraine’s latest comments run contrary to common sense and force us to once again take the floor.
From the beginning of the conflict in the Ukraine — w…
We thank you, Mr. President, for organizing today’s meeting and for the open debate format, which enables us to engage in a broad exchange of opinions on an issue as complicated as this one, the factors that make it difficult to resolve conflicts today. Your choice of subject is timely not only for …
Our delegation normally votes against so- called country-specific resolutions on human rights, which are designed to exert political pressure on a given State. The exploitation of human rights issues in order to settle scores, wage information wars or advance political agendas leads only to situatio…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for preparing the new semi-annual report (S/2017/1030) on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), and we would like to thank Mr. Feltman for his briefing. We note the effective work done by Ambassador Cardi, the Permanent Representative of Italy, the Co…
When the Security Council established a regime for cross-border supplies of humanitarian aid through the United Nations, we all assumed that it was a temporary emergency measure that perforce infringed on Syria’s sovereignty. It was introduced in 2014 when the armed conflict was in an acute phase du…
In response to what was just said about Russia being the only supplier of weapons to Ukraine, let me go into more detail regarding our theory about how various countries supply Ukraine with lethal weapons. We have already mentioned that Canada publicly stated its readiness to license its companies t…
The negative impact on the implementation of the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements, which remains the only option for resolving the situation in south-eastern Ukraine, is exacerbated by overall instability in the country, the exploitation of the Donbas factor to fome…
We thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, for introducing the report of the Secretary-General on small arms and light weapons (S/2017/1025). While the report in general covers the broad scope of the issue under consideration, it also contains a number of questionable…
I thank the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his substantive briefing. We fully support the work of Mr. Mladenov as an objective broker.
We in Moscow we are very carefully following the development of the situation on the Israeli-Pales…
I will be very brief. I am not going to get into a substantive discussion with the Foreign Minister of Ukraine. I just want to say that I am glad that there are a lot of people in the Chamber today, because they have been able to see for themselves the Ukrainian delegation’s lack of respect for the …
We thank you, Mr. Kono, for presiding over our meeting today, and the Secretary-General for his
briefing on the situation on the Korean peninsula. There can be no doubt that we are experiencing one of the most acute and dramatic phases in the evolving situation there. We can say without exaggeratio…
We have familiarized ourselves with the twenty-sixth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the situation in Darfur and would like to begin by addressing some of the facts and figures in the report. In particular, it notes a continued reduction in armed clashes between…
