We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Feltman and Ms. Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, for their detailed briefings.
For our part, we note that the security situation in Rakhine state and its environs has stabilized to a degre…
We thank the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) for preparing the report on health employment and economic growth (see A/72/378). The document is a timely reminder of the importance of investing in training qualified medical specialists to react swiftly to crises in the area of …
We have often expressed our opposition to the introduction of human rights issues into the Security Council’s agenda. We believe that they are not within the Council’s remit and should be considered by the specialized bodies, first and foremost the Human Rights Council. The Security Council has neve…
We too would like to explain our position with regard
to the two paragraphs of draft resolution A/72/L.22 that are to be put to a recorded vote.
We are voting on those paragraphs for the second year. It is also the second year that our delegation, like others, is calling on other delegations to re…
The Russian Federation has consistently called for enhanced cooperation in humanitarian assistance under the United Nations. Russia is steadily contributing to that process, both through regular contributions to the budgets of United Nations humanitarian agencies and by sending humanitarian aid and …
We have listened attentively to the assessment of Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, of the announcement made in Washington, D.C., recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Washington’s decision on…
We endorse the words of sympathy and condolence that have been expressed over the deaths of the Tanzanian peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We express our condolences to all the relatives and friends of the people of Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo who died and …
Russia supported today’s presidential statement S/PRST/2017/24, echoing the voices of those who are gravely concerned by reports of incidents of migrants being sold into slavery in Libya. However, the authors of the text, bowing to the opinions of some Council members, refused to take into account o…
Unfortunately, the Ukrainian delegation once again used this meeting of the Security Council to divert attention from the issues discussed. We would like to recall that the current authorities in Kyiv unleashed an armed confrontation with their own people in the south- east of the country. It result…
Today the Security Council is preparing for the last time to discuss the report (S/2017/662) on the International Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which will finally terminate its activities on 31 December after numerous delays.
The Council’s establishment of the Tribunal in 1993 was a ver…
The tasks outlined in resolution 2347 (2017) regarding the protection of cultural heritage during conflicts, and in particular from terrorists, have not lost their relevance. I would like to thank the briefers for their detailed information on the work of the bodies they head and their thorough anal…
We wish to thank you, Mr. President, in your capacity as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006), for your presentation of the 90-day report, as well as Under- Secretary-General Feltman for his briefing on the launch by the Democratic People’s Republic …
I thank Under-Secretary-General Lowcock for his briefing.
Our successes in eliminating terrorist nerve centres and taking de-escalation measures in the framework of the Astana process have enabled us to significantly improve the situation in Syria. What we also need is progress on the political fro…
The situation today makes it vital for us to exchange opinions and assessments of the contemporary threats posed by the activities of terrorist groups. We would like to thank the Under-Secretary-General Voronkov, of the United Nations Office of Counter- Terrorism, and Ambassador Umarov, Chair of the…
We would first like to thank the briefers for their information.
The serious problems raised during today’s meeting are very worrying. We share the concerns about information indicating the growth of trafficking in persons in the region. The Security Council already discussed the problem in last we…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Keita for her substantive briefing. We regret the fact that we were unable to hear the views of Mr. Ismail Wais, Special Envoy for South Sudan of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), due to the fact that he is taking …
Since it so happens that today we have been given the floor immediately after the Ukrainian delegation, we would like to begin by once again repudiating the insinuations made about Russia as inappropriate, unfounded and perhaps even absurd. And now let me turn to the topic of today’s meeting.
We wo…
The Russian Federation supports the adoption by consensus of draft resolution A/72/L.8, on the situation in Afghanistan, which was intended to reflect in a targeted and comprehensive manner the collective approaches of the international community to reach an effective and long-term Afghan settlement…
The Russian delegation has participated in good faith in all the consultations, multilateral and bilateral, designed to bring the positions of Security Council members closer on the extension of the mandate of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigativ…
We thank the Italian delegation for taking the initiative to convene today’s meeting. In our view, its format makes it possible to consider the challenges and threats to global peace and security from a new perspective, including through the prism of the situation in the Mediterranean region. We wou…
