We thank the Egyptian delegation for initiating today’s very important meeting. Russia firmly supports the expansion and deepening of cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union and subregional organizations.
We welcome the progressive development of the partnership between the Sec…
We welcome the presence here of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić. We share his comments. We would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his briefing on the work of the United …
I will be brief. I wish to respond to the statement made by the Ukrainian delegation, which again included a host of anti-Russian insinuations that have nothing to do with the actual situation. We repudiate them as unjustified and irrelevant to the subject of today’s meeting. However, since the Ukra…
During the prolonged negotiation process, our delegation repeatedly urged that we work together on
a pragmatic approach to the draft resolution before us today (A/70/L.47) and to our efforts to finalize it. It is regrettable that not everyone supported our constructive attitude. The amendments prop…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2287 (2016), given the importance of maintaining consensus in the Council on the issue of an Abyei settlement and of pursuing the activities of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei in upholding peace and stability in that region.
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I apologize for taking the floor again. However I will be very brief. Our previous comments apply fully to the comments just made by the representative of Ukraine.
The delegations of Ukraine and Georgia have made a number of anti-Russian insinuations that have nothing to do with today’s topic. We reject them as baseless and irrelevant.
Mr. Minister, we are grateful to the delegation of Egypt for the very timely initiative of convening this open debate on the theme of “Countering the narratives and ideologies of terrorism”. We regard this meeting as an important contribution to Security Council efforts within the broad agenda of in…
The Security Council has been increasingly working in open formats, occasionally in breach of earlier agreed-upon formats. I wanted to speak at this public meeting today, which, as we know, is permitted under the rules of procedure.
We are grateful to Mr. Ján Kubiš for his briefing and for having p…
We would like to welcome Mr. Inzko, High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is with a great deal of attention that we have familiarized ourselves with Mr. Inzko’s report to the Security Council (see S/2016/395, annex) and listened to his brief…
We thank Jeffrey Feltman and Stephen O’Brien for their briefings.
As a result of the cessation of hostilities, which was put in place thanks to the leading role of the Russian Federation and the United States and confirmed in resolution 2268 (2016), the level of violence in Syria has significantly …
We thank the Chairmen of the Committees with counter-terrorism mandates for their detailed briefings. The effectiveness of the work of those bodies will to a large extent determine progress in strengthening the central coordinating role of the United Nations and the Security Council in the field of …
Since this is the first official meeting of the Security Council in May, we would like to start by thanking the delegation of China for its skilful and effective leadership as President during the month of April. We would also like to congratulate our Egyptian colleagues on the start of their presid…
The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), which was set up by the Security Council and includes Russian military observers, has played an extremely important stabilizing role. Its work has been effective and has allowed for the establishment of an environment that is…
Maybe we could continue this discussion in an another place. The representative of Ukraine helped me work on that agreement. We believe it is important. However, President Yanukovych gave up too much as a result of that agreement, and it seems that its provisions were weak. That is true, because he…
With regard to border control, I just spoke about that when I was talking about Mr. Sadjik’s comments. Ukraine is delaying everything with regard to control of the borders. It is very clearly written in the agreement. The representative of Ukraine has probably read it. Let me read it. It says that t…
A minor point, but I said accurately in Russian what my British colleague said, namely, that he does not care who did the shooting. But we do care. We continue to believe that those who kill civilians should not be left unpunished. So we care very much who did the shooting. But that is not such a su…
First of all, it seems very important to me that Ambassadors Apakan and Sajdik take away from this meeting the impetus to step up the implementation of the package of measures of the February 2015 Minsk agreements.
However, I would like to talk about something slightly different. It is not fully cl…
I would first like to warmly welcome our former colleagues, Mr. Ertuğrul Apakan and Mr. Martin Sajdik, who have undertaken a very difficult task and for whose efforts we are very grateful. And of course I would like to thank Mr. Zerihoun for his briefing.
The extremely grave crisis in Ukraine spark…
United Nations peacekeeping is one of the most important tools for helping States settle conflict, overcome the consequences of conflict and prevent the resurgence of crises. We welcome the simultaneous adoption today by the General Assembly and the Security Council of resolutions reviewing the peac…
