We thank you, Sir, for convening this meeting. Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant — one of the largest man-made disasters of the twentieth century — which affected the territories of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. At that time, no similar inciden…
We thank the delegations of China, Angola and Senegal for their initiative to convene today’s meeting of the Security Council on the issue of piracy and armed robbery at sea in the Gulf of Guinea. We also thank Assistant Secretary-General Zerihoun for his contribution to today’s debate.
In the cur…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the President of Somalia, His Excellency Mr. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and in general we share the views that he has expressed. We would like to thank Mr. Michael Keating, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, for his comprehensi…
Sometimes we hear that, given the numerous other crises, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has lost its significance in the context of efforts to maintain international peace and security. We categorically disagree with that point of view. Efforts aimed at solving the Palestinian-Israeli issue should…
Improving road safety is a priority for most countries in the world. During the years of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020, significant results have been made in reducing the number of traffic accidents. The inclusion of this topic in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (resolut…
We welcome the initiative of the Chinese delegation to lead discussions on the most topical aspect of fighting terrorism in the framework of an open debate. We believe that it is very timely.
Right now, with the fight against terrorism in Syria and Iraq in full swing, there is a clearer picture of …
Our delegation would like to start by expressing its gratitude to the Angolan presidency for its initiative in convening today’s meeting on the topic of the role of women in preventing and settling conflicts in Africa. We would also like to convey our gratitude to all the invited briefers for their …
Sir, we welcome you as President of the Security Council, and we hope that your personal participation in today’s meeting and Angola’s active role in the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, will contribute to intensification of this organ’s activities in the search for answers to the…
We support the emphasis that the United Nations places on issues related to combating racism and racial discrimination. Unfortunately, even today we have not yet vanquished ethnic and religious intolerance, xenophobia and inter-ethnic tensions, and their hostages are national minorities, whose repre…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for presenting the latest report of the Secretary-General (S/2016/225) and for her substantive briefing on the situation in the country.
We are carefully monitoring the development of the political situation in Haiti, …
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Haysom for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. We listened with interest to the substantive statement made by the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mr. Mahmoud Saikal.
The developments in the…
Russia backed the adoption of resolution 2272 (2016), on sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping operations. We approached with understanding the initiative of the United States and other States’ delegations to send a signal through the Security Council regarding the unacceptability of such ac…
We would like to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his briefing on issues of discipline and behaviour in peacekeeping operations.
We attach great importance to the work on the problem of the commission of violations, including sexual abuse by members of United Nations peacekeeping contingents…
The Security Council has just unanimously adopted a new resolution that tightens the international sanctions regime against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (resolution 2270 (2016)). This resolution resulted from the fact that over the past two months the Democratic People’s Republic of Kor…
Russia supported resolution 2271 (2016), which extends for a month and a half the existing Security Council sanctions on South Sudan. On the one hand, the technical nature of the resolution reflects the lack of unity in the Council on maintaining or expanding the current the sanctions regime. On the…
I am very ready to go into detail. I do not think that we need to take Mr. Steinmeier’s time, as he is already aware of this whole situation.
From the very beginning, we have said that the crisis in Ukraine had to be resolved politically. At the Geneva talks on 17 April 2014, which involved the par…
I should like to make a few brief comments.
First, I was surprised to note that, in the context of the principal issues, I agree with the statement made by the representative of the United States. First, he quite rightly noted that one of the most important principles of the OSCE is the equality of…
We are pleased to welcome to the Security Council the Vice-Chancellor and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in his capacity as Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). We thank him for his substantive briefing.
We have …
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2269 (2016). While we did not block the proposal of the Secretary-General with regard to the appointments to the post of President and Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, our delegation does not suppo…
We welcome the participation of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, in this meeting, and we share the assessments he has made here today.
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his briefing on the s…
