I will be brief. I actually forgot to mention three issues that I think it is important to mention today. I would first like to sincerely thank you, Mr. President, for your stewardship of today’s meeting. It has been difficult, but you managed to conduct it in truly presidential fashion. Secondly, I…
We are deeply disappointed that our initiative aimed at extending and improving the quality of the work of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) to investigate instances of the use of chemical weapons in Syria did not receive the …
The Russian Federation shares our common commitment to a world free of chemical weapons and is concerned about the continuing incidences of chemical terrorism in the Middle East. Our position is unchanged. We condemn the use of chemical weapons by anyone in any circumstances. The perpetrators of suc…
As we all know, the Russian Federation was unable to support the draft resolution (S/2017/962) submitted by the United States delegation. Today we have been told that we refused to engage in consultations or to communicate. That is not so, since our experts did indeed communicate whenever they were …
In this case, Mr. President, in accordance with rule 35 of the Security Council’s provisional rules of procedure, which says that a motion or draft resolution can be withdrawn at any time as long as no vote has been taken on it, the sponsors of the draft resolution contained in document S/2017/933 w…
We are not playing political games here. On the other hand, perhaps we are, because if we were not playing political games, we would not be having this discussion today. But while we have studied this issue, and the Council’s practice on it varies. we will not delve into that at the moment, as we se…
We thank you, Mr. President, and we are pleased to have you in the Chamber today. We are grateful to Mr. Ghassan Salamé for his briefing. We very much hope that he can execute his difficult task of helping to unify Libya and we sincerely wish him every success. There is no alternative to that path i…
Mr. President, we would like to request that draft resolution S/2017/933, submitted by the Russian Federation, be put to the vote second and that draft resolution S/2017/962, submitted by the United States of America, be put to the vote first. We know that the United States has told you and the Coun…
The Russian delegation endorsed the adoption of resolution 2387 (2017) on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic for one year. We were chiefly guided by the importance of sending the citizens of the Central…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and we share his serious concerns about the status quo in Kosovo. We thank Special Representative Tanin and his team for their efforts and objective briefing on…
Like other members of the Council, we are eager to see sustainable peace and stability achieved as soon as possible in Somalia and Eritrea, and in the Horn of Africa as a whole, but we were obliged to abstain in the voting on resolution 2385 (2017) for the following reasons.
The main criteria for i…
We welcome the convening of today’s meeting of the General Assembly on the implementation of the resolutions of the Assembly and on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly. We would like to congratulate the Permanent Representative of Croatia and the Permanent Representative of Colomb…
The Russian delegation thanks the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Yukiya Amano, for presenting the report (see A/72/221) on the work of the organization he heads. Russia takes a positive view of the activities of the IAEA. We hope that the Agency will continue …
With regard to the speculation that we have heard concerning nuclear infrastructure in Crimea, I would like to say that the Russian position is well known. It is set out in the International Atomic Energy Agency information circular contained in document INFCIRC/876 and remains unchanged. For the Ru…
The situation in Libya remains difficult and we deplore the fact that people are being killed, including civilians. We hope that the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, will do everything possible within the framework of the plan he has presented to further…
We thank the President for convening today’s meeting. The issue of the reform of the Security Council is one of the most important issues on the agenda of the global Organization, since it is the organ that, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, bears the primary responsibility for t…
We would like to share our thoughts with you, Mr. President, on the report of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (see S/2017/922, annex). In our opinion, of all the reports Mr. Inzko has submitted to the Security Council since 2009, this is the most biased. To a lesser extent, the do…
I thank the delegation of Italy for organizing today’s meeting in an open format, which allows us to bring the position of Russia on the issue before us home to all Member States.
We are grateful to Ms. Nakamitsu and Mr. Mulet for their briefings.
Russia strongly condemns the use of chemical weapo…
Our delegation supported today’s resolution 2383 (2017). We would note that there is a regional link to the mandate extended by the resolution. That approach has some positive aspects. At the same time,
in our view, combating piracy requires significant comprehensive measures and a more global form…
