We thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Mr. Lamberto Zannier, and the Secretary General of the European External Action Service of the European Union, Ms. Helga Schmid, for their bri…
The Russian delegation is grateful for the warm words and expressions of condolence on Russia’s irreparable loss of Ambassador Vitaly Churkin. We have lost an outstanding diplomat, a great professional, a talented orator and polemicist, and a soulful and kind-hearted person. He had encyclopedic know…
I too should like to thank the briefers for their participation in today’s meeting.
Combating terrorism in today’s world must be an absolute priority in the work of the Security Council. Today, the international community is encountering increasingly sophisticated forms of terrorist activity and su…
Our meeting is drawing to a close, and I am now perhaps within my rights, as doyen of the Security Council, to welcome our new United States colleague, Ambassador Nikki Haley. From time to time we may have differences on particular issues, but her efforts will greatly influence the Council’s ability…
We are grateful for today’s briefings, which painted a disturbing picture of the ongoing events and suffering of the people of eastern Ukraine.
What has basically been happening is quite obvious. Kyiv is attempting to use clashes it has itself provoked as a pretext for a complete refusal to impleme…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2337 (2017) on the situation in The Gambia on the basis of the need to ensure the peaceful transfer of power in the country and avoid bloodshed and further destabilization. We also voted in support of the efforts of the Economic Community of West …
We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Jeffrey Feltman for presenting the second report (S/2016/1136) of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). We note the productive start to the work of the Security Council’s new facilitator on the implementation of the res…
The Middle East and North Africa region is still experiencing a systemic multilevel crisis. There have been ongoing, bloodthirsty terrorist attacks and other attacks, including the murder of the Russian ambassador in Ankara, Mr. Karlov. There have been explosions in Turkey and Egypt, and the tragedi…
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General O’Brien and Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for their detailed briefings about the development of the military, political and humanitarian situation in the Lake Chad basin region. We would also like to thank Ms. Fatima Yerima Askira for her very moving…
Sweden has begun its two years of labour on the Security Council by taking the Chair of the presidency at the very start. We wish it every success. We are sure that in the conduct of our work the land of Dag Hammarskjöld, Olof Palme and Jan Eliasson will exemplify the excellent foreign policy tradit…
I did not intend to speak here today, as it seems to me that resolution 2336 (2016), which we have just adopted, speaks for itself. But as all members of the Security Council have spoken it would probably be odd, to say the least, if one of the sponsors of the resolution and a member of the Council …
Our delegation is disappointed that in considering resolution 71/253 today, the approaches of States that are not parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) were not taken into account. The need to correct the resolution in order to align it with today’s realities is long …
The Russian delegation, I am sure like many others in the Chamber, was puzzled by the process that unfolded around today’s resolution 2334 (2016). While the resolution has been worked on for many months, the apparent haste surrounding its adoption does not promote its ends.
For many years, our coun…
Russia, likw many other delegations, abstained in the voting on the Security Council draft resolution on expanding the sanctions regime against South Sudan. That is because there are profound concerns about the content of the document and the work conducted on it. We think that it is abnormal when s…
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2333 (2016), extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). We believe that it is unacceptable to extend the mandate under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations in circumstances where Blue Helmets are an…
I understand that this is the final statement of my colleague from New Zealand in the Security Council, and I do not want to spoil his swan song. However just for protocol, just for the record, we do not agree with a number of the arguments he put forth. What is particularly unacceptable is the conf…
Despite the fact that Security Council resolution 2209 (2015) was adopted by consensus, we do not consider the reference to it in resolution 71/250 to be entirely appropriate. Unlike resolution 2235 (2015), resolution 2209 (2015) is not directly
related to cooperation between the Organization on th…
I would first like to express my deep appreciation to the President of the Government of Spain, the Secretary-General, the members of the Security Council, every Member of our Organization and the staff of the Secretariat, who have voiced their outrage and sympathy over the terrorist act that killed…
We are following the security situation in Afghanistan very closely. We are concerned about its sudden and growing deterioration, especially in the north of the country, in which the Taliban has recently become increasingly active. The elimination of the Taliban leader, Mullah Mansoor, has led to a …
We would like to start by conveying our gratitude to the Secretary-General and Mr. Stephen O’Brien, as well as to all our colleagues, who during the previous meeting took the floor and extended kind words of condolence to us following the killing of Ambassador Karlov in Ankara. Their words of condol…
