We note with regret that the situation in the Middle East and North Africa continues to be tense and explosive. Over the past few years the situation in the Israeli-Palestinian track has continually worsened. Negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians have been de facto frozen. After the complet…
The Russian delegation supported resolution 2327 (2016), based on the need to pursue active international efforts for a peace settlement of the armed conflict in South Sudan, and the important role played in that process by the United Nations Mission in that country. However, we are compelled to not…
We would like to thank the Director-General of the World Health Organization for the comprehensive analysis of the response to health crises (A/71/598). In recent years we have witnessed serious challenges in that area. There have been outbreaks of infectious diseases, including the spread of yellow…
We welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain, Mr. Alfonso Dastis Quecedo, who is presiding over this meeting of the Security Council, and we appreciate the convening of this open debate on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and on resolution 1540 (2004). We …
The Russian delegation was surprised by this resolution, submitted by the United States, which extends the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan for just one day. That is all the more surprising given that the sponsors had sufficient time to come to agreement on the re…
I would like to make a brief but important clarification in response to the President’s appeal: maybe I was not correctly interpreted, or maybe I did not say clearly enough what I meant in my statement. The fact is that the agreement you referred to, that you called for — our removal of the fighters…
We have taken note of the twenty-fourth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the investigation of the situation in Darfur.
First of all, we are rather taken aback by the demands made to the Security Council during the so- called follow up on the situation in Darfur.…
My statement will be made up of four small parts.
The first is that propaganda, disinformation and psychological warfare are not new concepts. A new phenomenon, exacerbated by what we are seeing in the Syrian conflict, is the spread of fake news. In such fabrications, they stoop to using images of …
We supported the adoption of resolution 2323 (2016), but we must recall that, during the discussions on its elaboration, we strongly favoured extending the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission
in Libya for six months. We believe that to be the optimal time frame in the light of the weak po…
We welcome the initiative to discuss in the Security Council issues of legal cooperation in the context of combating terrorism. We think it is a timely debate. The tragedies in Egypt, Turkey and other countries remind us once again of the need for an energetic, consistent and joint struggle against …
As it did last year, my delegation voted against the discussion by the Security Council of the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
We have often expressed our opposition to the Security Council’s inclusion of human rights issues on its agenda. We believe that they d…
I should like to begin with a general remark on today’s meeting. Sub-item (a) of agenda item 69, which is the topic of the meeting, focuses on the coordination of humanitarian assistance. To be frank, we expected the meeting to be an opportunity to exchange views on the substantive content of the ag…
The Russian Federation consistently advocates the prosecution of individuals guilty of having perpetrated grave international crimes. Our country was at the origin of the establishment of the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes tribunals. We took part in crafting their Charters. For the same fundamental …
We have carefully reviewed the reports of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
(ICTY) (see S/2016/670) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (see S/2016/669 and S/2016/975) from the past six months. We are pleased to note that the ICTY report does not conta…
The topic of my statement is the growing role played by Russia in the international system of emergency and humanitarian response and the prospects for its development at the present stage.
Humankind in the twenty-first century is encountering major threats of a global nature. The number and scale …
For our country, a major maritime Power, improving international cooperation in the global oceans is of special importance. We are grateful to the Secretary-General for the preparation of detailed and very informative reports on this issue.
We take note of the work carried out by the bodies created…
Russia highly values the role of the United Nations in strengthening international cooperation in sport, as that contributes to overcoming inter-ethnic and interreligious strife, while strengthening mutual understanding among nations and achieving harmony among civilizations.
Sport has an enormous …
As far as I am concerned, the discussion ended somewhat unexpectedly for me when you took the floor in your national capacity, Sir. I wanted to say a few words after the voting as well. I will be brief, since we have discussed the situation in Syria many times, including just recently. We have alrea…
This is not the first time we have seen this. Secretary of State John Kerry has been working with our Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, to reach a concrete result. But whenever they near an agreement, somebody undermines it. Sometimes that effort originates in Washington, D.C., from the D…
We note the effective efforts of Special Envoy of African Union, Mr. Edem Kodjo, in assisting the successful conclusion of the intra-Congolese political dialogue and the signing of the political agreement of 18 October. We are convinced that that agreement will play a role in ensuring political stab…
