We are grateful to the delegation of the United States for this opportunity for an open debate and to discuss honestly the very complex topic of the use of poisonous substances in the context of the Syrian conflict. Unfortunately, interest in such events clearly has an ideological thrust. Let us ack…
We wish to echo the words of condolence expressed by other speakers and convey them to the people and the Government of Colombia in the wake of the natural disaster in Mocoa. We extend our sympathy to the families of those who died, and we hope that the joint efforts of the Government and the Revolu…
Allow me to congratulate you, Madam President, as you begin your presidency of the Security Council. We wish you every success in this crucial role.
We would also like to express our gratitude for the solidarity shown in connection with the tragic events in Saint Petersburg yesterday. We appreciate…
We join others in conveying our condolences and sympathies following the deaths of the two
young and courageous experts, Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan.
Russia voted in favour of resolution 2348 (2017), extending the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democrat…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2349 (2017), on the situation in the Lake Chad basin, owing to the importance of maintaining consensus in the Security Council and given that the language of the document was acceptable to the representatives of the region. However, we believe tha…
I thank all the briefers for their participation in this meeting and for their valuable contributions to today’s discussion.
Our delegation fully shares concerns over the unprecedented damage done to cultural heritage by supporters of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), Jabhat Al-Nusra a…
First of all, we would like to express our condolences and sympathy to our United Kingdom colleagues, all the victims and the families of those who were killed in yesterday’s terrorist attack in London. We strongly condemn that murderous attack, which once again confirms the need for coordinated act…
We are grateful to Mr. Mogae and Ms. Sunday for their assessments of the situation in South Sudan. We also welcome the personal efforts of the Secretary- General to reach a settlement on South Sudan.
We agree on the importance of coordinating actions by the African Union, the Intergovernmental Auth…
First and foremost, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, as well as the Secretary-General, the President of the Security Council, the Chairs of the regional groups and the representatives of the host country for their sincere and heartfelt expressions of condolences to the family of the Permane…
We would like to thank President Touadéra for sharing his point of view regarding the situation in his country. We also thank Under-Secretary-General Ladsous and the Permanent Representative of Morocco for their briefings, which were quite instructive.
The situation in the country remains precariou…
I am grateful to the Permanent Representative of Bolivia, Mr. Sacha Llorentty Solíz, for his briefing on the work of THE Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). We thank the Ambassador and his entire team for their successful leadership of that subsidiary body of the Council and th…
We too thank the Secretary-General and the briefers for their participation in today’s meeting. The problem of human trafficking in conflict situations and terrorism was discussed by the Council in December last year (see S/PV.7847). The victims of human trafficking, including women and children, an…
At the outset, we would like to express our gratitude to the States that initiated the adoption of today’s resolution 71/278, as well as to all delegations that constructively participated in its drafting.
Despite certain positive developments in recent months regarding statistics on sexual offense…
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Yamamoto for his detailed briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. We actively support his work and that of his highly professional team in Afghanistan and of the Secretariat. We are prepared to extend the mandate of his operation, …
We would like at the outset to thank Under- Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien for his very comprehensive and objective briefing on the results
of his recent visit to a number of countries that find themselves in a very difficult humanitarian situation. In calling for this meeting, we were motivated…
The Russian Federation voted against today’s draft resolution (S/2017/172), on imposing sanctions Syria, because its authors’ concept, which by its very nature is offensive and flawed, is totally unacceptable. The fact that the draft resolution failed to receive six Council members’ votes out of 15 …
The past month has been a very full one for the Security Council. In particular, there have been several meetings on regional and general issues.
I would now like to talk about the three important thematic debates that took place on the situation in the Eurasian region: on the activities of the Uni…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the President of Serbia, His Excellency Mr. Tomislav Nikolić, and share the serious concerns he expressed about the situation in Kosovo. We thank Ambassador Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and his team for their briefin…
We thank the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria, Mr. Kurz, for his comprehensive briefing.
We should like to see growing cooperation between the United N…
We would once again like to thank the delegations that have expressed their condolences on the death of the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, Mr. Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin. Their support at this difficult time is very important to us.
With regard to today’s meeting, we had hoped th…
