Russia does not accept the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s claim to become a nuclear State and has supported all Security Council resolutions demanding an end to the nuclear and missile programmes of Pyongyang, with a view to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. We have therefore su…
Today is one of those rare occasions when a delay by the Security Council in adopting a draft resolution is the result of positive developments in events. We welcome the signing in Quito, on 4 September, of the agreement on a temporary ceasefire between the Government of Colombia and the Ejército de…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2374 (2017), mindful of the importance of maintaining the Council’s consensus support for the peace settlement in Mali. We take note of the fact that the Malian Government, seeking to accelerate the stabilization of the northern territories, appea…
We thank Mr. Jeffrey Feltman for his briefing on the latest North Korean nuclear test.
The provocative nuclear missile activity by Pyongyang recently gained dangerous momentum. We are deeply troubled by the testing of a thermonuclear explosive device for an intercontinental ballistic missile, as an…
Today the Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2373 (2017), which extends the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), because of the important stabilizing role that this peacekeeping mission plays in the region. The positive effect of the work of UNIFIL’s peaceke…
The Security Council’s agenda this month was quite full. I would like to thank you personally, Mr. President, as well as your entire delegation, for the effective and skilful way in which you discharged your duties as President. Your presidency was so good that we did not notice the month’s passing.…
We would like to thank Egypt for organizing today’s discussion. We hope it will promote an understanding of the subtleties of Security Council mandates in the areas of peacekeeping and peacebuilding, as well as defining the boundaries between those two important focuses of international support. We …
Once again, we voice our principled position vis-à-vis the inadmissibility of Pyongyang’s nuclear missile programme. It must be expeditiously and promptly put to an end. The ballistic missile launches of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea constitute a major threat to sea and air transit in th…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Léonard She Okitundu, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We would like to thank the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) for his…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and share his serious concerns about the situation in Kosovo. We thank Mr. Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and his team for their …
I would like to thank Mr. El-Ghassim Wane, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his substantial briefing.
Russia supports a speedy and appropriate response by the international community to the challenges and threats facing the African continent generally and the Sahelo-Saha…
We are grateful to Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Permanent Observer of the African Union, Mr. Téte António, for their useful and detailed briefings. We would also like to commend the Executive Director of UN-Women, Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and the Special Representative of the Secre…
The Russian Federation supported the adoption of resolution 2371 (2017), on sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We understand the need to halt Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear programme, which is unacceptable to us. We share the feeling of neighbouring States in the region. T…
We are grateful to the Egyptian delegation for organizing today’s meeting and for the briefing by Mr. Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs.
Sanctions are one of the most important instruments in the Security Council’s toolbox. However, political practice has shown that restri…
I would like to begin, Mr. President, by congratulating you at the outset of the Egyptian
presidency and thanking the Chinese delegation once again for its capable leadership of the Security Council’s work in July. I am also grateful for the words of support taddressed to me and to my colleagues. I…
While this is not my first time in the General Assembly, it is my first in this capacity, and I believe it is symbolic that the first statement I am making after presenting my credentials to the Secretary-General earlier this morning is in the General Assembly, the most representative body of our Or…
It is with sadness that we learned of the passing of His Excellency Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President of the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. On behalf of the members of the Group of Eastern European States, let me convey our heartfelt condolences and sincere regrets to his fam…
We would like to extend our gratitude to the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladnenov, for the thorough briefing and for the efforts that he has undertaken.
We are deeply troubled by the escalation of tension in Palestinian-Israeli relations. We f…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Wane for his substantive briefing. We are also obliged to the Secretary-General for the balanced assessment he has given once again in his monthly report, and grateful to President Mogae for his detailed statement.
We share the view that the situation in South S…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2368 (2017), on sanctions related to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al-Qaida. Taking into account the unprecedented magnitude and scale of the threats to international relations from those groups, we concur with our colleagues from the…
