At the outset, I wish to thank John Kerry for his initiative to convene the third meeting of the International Syria Support Group today in New York, which has brought us together here in this Chamber.
This meeting of the International Syria Support Group undescores the commitment of all its partic…
We welcome the convening of today’s Security Council timely and important meeting on suppressing the financing of terrorism.
The consequences of the outbreak of terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa are spreading far beyond the region. The recent terrorist attacks demonstrated that the worl…
At the outset, we thank the briefers for their informative statements and assessments of the threat of human trafficking in situations of conflict. It is important for us to focus our attention at this meeting on the crimes of the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS) and other terrorist groups, and…
We have taken note of the twenty-second report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the Court’s investigation of the situation in Darfur, and we thank Ms. Bensouda for her participation in today’s meeting and her presentation of the report. Unfortunately, the fact that it was dis…
Ten years ago, at the two-stage World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), representatives of the peoples of the world adopted a general concept of the Information Society, having defined its basic principles and objectives for the creation of an information society open to everyone and focused…
The Russian Federation is grateful to Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi, Permanent Representative of Spain, for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) during the latest reporting period.
Today, in a special session, the Board of Governors of the Internati…
The Russian Federation did not prevent the adoption of resolution 2252 (2015), on the extension of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Our decision was informed by the need to continue active international efforts to find a peaceful settlement to the armed conflict and by our understanding of…
Unfortunately, our discussion today did not reach the requisite level of objective analysis with respect to the implementation of the Minsk agreements and resolution 2202 (2015). The pervasive lies in the statement of the representative of the United States of America prove that throughout the crisi…
We would first like to thank the President for organizing today’s meeting.
Our delegation associates itself with the statement delivered by the representative of Egypt on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Family.
In 2015 we are marking a milestone event, the twentieth anniversary of the World …
With all due respect to you, Madam President, I cannot fail to note that Security Council meetings should start on time. Unfortunately, the American presidency this month has introduced an element of nervousness into the work of the Council and has not always acted on the basis of consensus.
The co…
As it did last year (see S/PV.7353), our delegation voted against holding a meeting on the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
We would like to note that the request (S/2015/931) to convene this meeting was circulated to the Security Council just two days after the adoption of t…
Strengthening international coordination in providing humanitarian assistance is the most important task of today’s world. In recent years, we have witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number and scale of humanitarian crises. Humanitarian needs
are growing rapidly, as well as the required vol…
We thank the leadership of the Tribunals and
the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for their information on the progress of legal proceedings, the pace of their completion and the transfer of the Tribunals’s functions to the Mechanism. We take this opportunity to congratulate …
Our delegation attaches great importance to the General Assembly’s discussion of issues concerning the law of the sea and sustainable fishing. We thank the Secretary-General for his substantive reports on maritime issues. We also thank the coordinators of the informal consultations on draft resoluti…
We thank Ms. Hiroute Guebre Sellassie for her detailed briefing. We believe that it is important for the Security Council to discuss the issue of the Sahel in a comprehensive manner. Her assessment of the situation in that vast region is of great usefulness. The ever-increasing number of challenges …
Currently, the Middle East is seized by a rapidly growing sense of chaos. The terrorist violence is increasing in scope as the Islamic State and Jabhat Al-Nusra fight for broad swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, planting their roots in other States of the Middle East. As this year has shown, the…
The Security Council is meeting today following a series of atrocious terrorist attacks that resulted in hundreds of deaths. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its affiliates are now threatening new attacks. We are all outraged by the deaths of those killed in the Sinai Peninsula an…
We thank the Secretary-General for his briefing today. We have read very carefully the reports prepared by the High-level Independent Panel on Peace
Operations and on Special Political Missions (see S/2015/446) and the report of the Secretary-General (S/2015/682) with his vision for the implementat…
We would like to congratulate the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Mr. Zahir Tanin, on the successful start of his work. We welcome his commitment to assisting in strengthening stability in Kosovo pur…
I will be brief. I agree with my Ukrainian colleague that the primary responsibility of the Security Council is finding solutions to problems, however complex they may seem.
As it happens, the Minsk agreements, as affirmed in resolution 2202 (2015), do indeed represent a format that provides for a …
