I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on police issues in United Nations peacekeeping operations and special political missions. We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Lacroix and the Police Commissioners of the United Nations missions in Mali, Haiti and Darfur,…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, as well as the Special Representative of the African Union, Mr. Moussa Nebie, and the representative of the Community of Sant’Egidio, Mr. Mauro Garofalo, for their detailed briefings.
We share the concerns about the co…
As I noted during my statement, there are more than 1 million Ukrainians in Russia who fled the area of conflict, as well as an equal number of labour migrants from that country. Therefore, in spite of the unrestrained anti-Russian propaganda from Kyiv, those citizens have taken refuge in Russia to …
The Russian Federation is of the view that the Human Rights Council should scrupulously follow the norms of international law and the principles of universality, impartiality, objectivity and non-selectivity in its work so as to promote and defend human rights and fundamental freedoms for all withou…
We join others in wishing the Italian presidency every success, and we also extend our gratitude to the French delegation.
We welcome the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and thank him for his briefing.
Assistance to refugees and stateless persons is today a key component of the compr…
We would like to thank the delegation of France for its initiative in convening and conducting today’s meeting. We would like to also thank the Secretary-General for his participation, and we note the briefers’ valuable contribution to our discussion.
We have studied the Secretary-General’s report …
The Russian delegation is committed to the international rule of law and to fighting impunity. As part of the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals, our country was present at the birth of international criminal justice. Unfortunately, since the International Criminal Court (ICC) started its work, it has no…
We are happy to see you, Mr. President, presiding over this meeting of the Security Council. We would like to thank Secretary-General Guterres; Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mali, Mr. Diop; Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat; and European Union Special Representat…
We would first like to thank the French presidency for organizing today’s meeting. We are grateful to the briefers for their statements and helpful information.
In the time that has passed since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) considerable success has been achieved in enhancing the role of w…
I will be as brief as possible.
To begin, I would like to comment on the statement of the delegation to the effect that we did not speak during the debate. In the view of the Ukrainian delegation, that seems to mean something about our attitude to this debate. That has no relationship to reality. O…
We are compelled to comment on the statement by the delegation of Ukraine. We wish to recall that the debate on the report of the International Court of Justice is not the appropriate format for discussing the substance of cases that are being considered by that organ. Instead of making a constructi…
The Russian Federation voted against the draft resolution (S/2017/884) that was submitted by the United States on the technical extension of the mandate of the United Nations-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM). It is regrettable that the a…
What is happening right now smells bad. Let me explain. A few days before the release of the report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), a draft resolution (S/2017/884) on extending it for a year is thrown together. In the ru…
In accordance with rule 33.3 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council, I should like to propose to adjourn this meeting until 7 November. Also in accordance with the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I should like to explain why we are presenting this motion.
Let us not…
Despite continued weak global economic growth and the many crisis situations on the continent, African countries have demonstrated a resolute commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063 of the African Union. Significant efforts have been focused on elaborating national …
We would first like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his informative briefing.
The agenda for today’s meeting is “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”, or at least that is what it says on the paper in front of me. However, the statements of some delega…
We thank the leadership of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for their reports on the activities of these bodies, submitted to the General Assembly on a yearly basis (A/72/266 and A/72/261).
We welcom…
The Russian Federation agrees that we should not accept the fact that 108 million people around the world, of whom 52 million are children, are starving. We support the determination of the Secretary-General and the plans of the United Nations specialized agencies to draft a strategy to tackle that …
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti Sandra Honoré for her presentation of the report of the Secretary- General (S/2017/840), as well as her assessment of the situation in the country on the eve of the transi…
We have been closely studying the information being presented on the Secretary-General’s proposals for reform of the United Nations in the areas of the Organization’s peace and security architecture, development system and management. We understand the importance of adapting the Organization to the …
