The vote you have called today, Sir, on a draft resolution (S/2016/1026) on the humanitarian situation in Syria violates the Security Council’s rules of procedure, since the draft resolution was put into blue only at 11.20 a.m. this morning and cannot be voted on before tomorrow morning, in accordan…
Rightly or wrongly, humanitarian issues have recently increasingly become a subject for the Security Council’s attention. We think that it is now high time to hold a substantive discussion on the Middle East and
North Africa and organize a thematic debate on the topic of the catastrophic consequenc…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of today’s resolution 2321 (2016), which sanctions the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for conducting a fifth nuclear test. We should note that while Pyongyang’s behaviour ignored the legitimate requests of the international community and therefore requir…
As regards the situation in Crimea, I note that it was not the peaceful citizens of Crimea who refused the water from the Dniepr; it was a purposeful act on the part of the Kyiv authorities, which turned the humanitarian situation basically into a catastrophe. The water blockade did not stop there; …
We are happy to see you, Mr. Minister, once again presiding over a meeting of the Security Council. We are grateful to all of the briefers for their statements.
Water is essential for life. It is only when there is stable access to that key resource that one can talk about sustainable development i…
I simply want to state for the record that we are witnessing, within the Security Council, the normalization of a culture of unacceptable behaviour. When the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic took the floor, other Permanent Representatives purposefully stood up and left the Chambe…
To begin with, I would like to say that we greatly appreciate the work of the United Nations humanitarian personnel in Syria, and we actively support them. There is no need to convince us of the importance of assisting the United Nations, and Ambassador Rycroft’s suggestion to that effect is dishone…
We are convinced of the importance of strengthening cooperation between the United Nations and African regional and subregional organizations to ensure peace and security on the continent. The Russian delegation therefore voted in favour of resolution 2320 (2016). However, we are forced to note tha…
We are very happy to welcome you here once again, Mr. Minister, to preside over the Security Council. We took note of, and are grateful for, the briefings by the representatives of the United Nations and of the African Union (AU).
We are once again today discussing an important topic, namely, the p…
We thank the delegation of Senegal for convening today’s very important meeting. Russia strongly advocates building and deepening cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the basis of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations.
OIC members a…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations
Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), Ms. Ellen Løj, for her briefing and her active work in her post. We wish her all the very best.
We also take note of the letter dated 9 November, the recent report of the Se…
We are grateful to the German coordinators for their hard work in preparing the Assembly’s annual resolution on Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s complex situation continues to be a major focus for the international community. The increase in the number of civilian casualties is a serious concern. The spr…
I must touch upon events that preceded today’s adoption of resolution 2319 (2016). I stress that we are very concerned by the actions of a number of States, seeking to shift consideration of the issue of the competence of the Security Council to the forum of a purely technical international mechanis…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and share the very serious concerns he has expressed with regard to the state of affairs in Kosovo. We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-Gener…
My apologies for interrupting. I wanted to ask my colleague and friend from Japan to take his bottle of wine off the Security Council table, if he would. I would again like to remind everyone that this table is a sacred piece of furniture that should be treated with respect. As a matter of principle…
We thank the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Hervé Ladsous, as well as the Police Commissioners of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan, the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti and th…
Like other members of the Security Council, we would love to see the swift establishment of solid peace and stability in Somalia and Eritrea and throughout the entire Horn of Africa. However, we were forced to abstain in the voting on resolution 2317 (2016) for the following reasons.
Support by Eri…
We would like to thank the leadership of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for the reports (see A/71/263 and A/71/262) on their activities submitted to the General Assembly.
The Russian delegation has been fol…
In the six months since the previous briefing (see S/PV.7698), significant changes for the better in the political-military situation in Libya have not occurred. The main issue remains the fragmentation of the country and its governmental institutions, despite attempts by the Presidency Council in T…
First of all, we are grateful to our United Kingdom colleagues for their constructive approach during the consultations and willingness to take our chief concerns into consideration, enabling us to support today’s Security Council resolution 2015 (2016) on extending Operation Althea of the European …
