Today’s debate featured many speakers
discussing many different things, and that has only strengthened our conviction that the Security Council is not the place to examine this issue. On top of that, some delegations attempted, with a persistence worthy of a better aim, to use the forum of the Coun…
The topic that the British presidency has chosen for today’s debate, despite its innocuous appearance, poses, in our view, certain risks for the Security Council. On the one hand, it does not take much imagination to understand that there is a definite link between security and development. The dang…
Russia has carefully studied the annual report (see A/70/219) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for 2014, prepared by the Director General of the Agency, and the additional information on it. We note that an annex to the report contains the factually inaccurate assertion that during t…
At the outset, we should again like to express our deep sympathy and condolences to the people and the Government of France, to Paris, and to all countries, all people, all cities that have fallen victim to these horrible terrorist attacks, some of which may be facing the terrorist threat on a daily…
The tragedy in Paris is yet another example of the savagery of the terrorism that is threatening human civilization. In Lebanon and Iraq, terrorist attacks have also claimed the lives of many people in recent days. Our country is among those that have experienced the horror of international terroris…
We thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s
meeting. We also thank Mr. Hervé Ladous, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and the three Police Commissioners of the United Nations missions in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia for their briefings.
I also ta…
We have listened carefully to the briefing by the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko. His regular briefing on the twentieth anniversary of the Dayton Agreement has confirmed that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are independently tackling and solving very complex
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We thank all participants in today’s meeting who briefed the Council, in particular the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, His Excellency Mr. Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke.
We commend the work of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) and share the assessments of t…
We voted in favour of resolution 2245 (2015), prepared by the delegation of the United Kingdom, to change the mandate of the United Nations Support Office to the African Union Mission in Somalia (UNSOA), as we, like other members of the Council, are interested in seeing the swift establishment of su…
We greatly appreciate the work of
the International Court of Justice as the principal international judicial body of the United Nations system. We congratulate Judge Ronny Abraham on his election as President of the Court and thank him for his detailed report (A/70/4).
It is clear that States cont…
At the outset, we, too, would like to thank the delegation of Spain for having led the work of the Council in October and wish the current President every success this month.
We have taken note of the tenth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding the investigati…
We welcome the convening of today’s meeting of the General Assembly on revitalizing its work. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Croatia and Namibia on their reappointment to the posts of co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group. We noted their work i…
The time has undoubtedly come for Security
Council reform. The question is how to implement it so that it strengthens not only the Council itself but the Organization as a whole. It is important to strive for a final outcome that will truly help to strengthen the position of developing States, whic…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of the United Kingdom’s resolution 2244 (2015), on Somalia and Eritrea, as for us and other members of the Security Council the imperative is to swiftly achieve peace and stability in the countries of the Horn of Africa. However, we continue to have concerns ab…
The situation at present in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict has again spiked quite seriously. There is a need for immediate steps to de-escalate the situation, to attenuate the fervency of the rhetoric on both sides and to promote rejection of all forms of violence. We hope that this will be helpe…
First of all, allow me to commend you, Mr. President, on convening today’s debate. We have seen a genuine revolution in the working methods of the Council, with Angola speaking on behalf of six members. Such initiatives should be supported — for example, it could be emulated by the new members joini…
Resolutely overcoming many challenges, Africa has recently achieved significant successes in socioeconomic, scientific, technical and cultural development. It is playing an important part in building a just, democratic and multipolar world. Of course, most of the credit goes to the Africans themselv…
The ongoing escalation of the situation in the Palestinian territories, particularly in East Jerusalem, is a matter of great concern to Moscow. It is causing increased suffering among peaceful Israelis and Palestinians, exacerbating the lack of trust between them and reducing the possibility of a po…
Let me begin by thanking Spain for organizing
this open debate. We are grateful to the Secretary- General, the Executive Director of UN-Women and all the other speakers for their substantive contributions to today’s discussion.
This month marks the fifteenth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000), …
I would like to thank the leadership of the
International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for the annual reports on their activities (see A/70/226 and A/70/218, respectively) submitted to the General Assembly and also for the third…
