I will heed your call, Sir, to take into account the very special nature of this meeting. I shall therefore refrain from responding to the tirades of the representatives of the United States and the United Kingdom just now.
I should like to make two comments, one procedural in nature and the other substantive.
The procedural comment is as follows. Today, several representatives have taken the floor twice, once in explanation of vote and once on the substantive issue. We note that, in his first statement, the represent…
In the course of the Balkan crisis, the region witnessed a variety of atrocities, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. The Russian Federation has consistently advocated the investigation of all crimes committed during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina with respect…
We are gathered here today to pay tribute to the memory of all the victims of the monstrous crimes committed in and around Srebrenica two decades ago.
Before proceeding, Mr. President, I would like to ask you to call for a minute of silence to honour their memory.
The Security Council’s agenda over the past month has been extremely busy, Mr. President, and we would like to thank your delegation for presiding so capably over its functions.
I would like to focus on various important subjects. The central event of the Malaysian presidency was its convening of a…
We have taken note of the twenty-first report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), on the investigation of the situation in Darfur. We thank Ms. Bensouda for her comments on the 2009 report of the African Union High-Level Panel on Darfur (S/2009/599, annex I).
The military, …
The Russian delegation voted in favour of the adoption of resolution 2228 (2015) on the extension of the mandate of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), based on the important stabilizing role of that hybrid mission in Darfur. For us, it is also of principal importan…
We thank the delegation of Malaysia for organizing today’s meeting on peacebuilding issues. We are grateful to the former and current Chairs of the Peacebuilding Commission for their informative briefings and skilful leadership of the Commission.
Peacebuilding support is one of the key instruments …
We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Spain for the report about the recent work of the Committee that he chairs. The Russian Federation thanks the Spanish delegation for its skilful leadership of that subsidiary body of the Security Council at this very delicate stage. We hope for a co…
We thank Mr. Haysom for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and Mr. Tanin for delivering, as usual, his highly comprehensive statement. We share extreme concern over the description that the Council heard today. The Russian Federation is troubled by the deterioration of the situation in the…
In his statement, the representative of Ukraine did not agree with information about the loss of children’s lives in south-eastern Ukraine as a result of firing by the Ukrainian military, and accused Russia of having done that. In order to avoid the usual accusations of propaganda, let us look at th…
We are pleased to welcome you, Mr. Minister, as President of the Security Council and would like to thank you for having organized today’s meeting. We are also grateful to the invited briefers for their comprehensive statements. We would like to single out the efforts of the Special Representative o…
We thank the Malaysian delegation of for organizing today’s meeting. We are also grateful to the Force Commanders of the military components of the missions in South Sudan, Mali and the Middle East for their very comprehensive briefings. We believe that this type of meeting format — by now tradition…
The Russian Federation is grateful to the Chairs of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committees for their solid work during the reporting period. The reports issued by those bodies make an important contribution to strengthening international counter-terrorism cooperation under the auspices of…
The Russian Federation is firmly committed to the goals and principles of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS (resolution 65/277, annex), which we regard as the key framework and basis for increasing international cooperation in the fight against the human immunodeficiency virus. In the p…
I will be very brief. Fortunately, the Secretariat has established detailed protocols for the Security Council that cover all the questions that the representative of the United States touched on just now and that save me the trouble of a more extensive reaction to her remarks.
I will not go into a discussion with my Ukrainian colleague of the Charter of the United Nations, international law or international humanitarian law, for that matter, since too many of those instruments’ provisions are being violated by the Kyiv authorities in their so-called anti-terrorist but in …
We have been discussing the situation in Ukraine since February 2014. At that time, there was an agreement between the President and the opposition. If that agreement had been implemented, Kyiv would have implemented constitutional reform by the end of last year and we would have observed a gradual …
The draft resolution (A/69/L.69) before the General Assembly has not undergone any changes compared to last year’s text (resolution 68/274). This initiative is politicized and opportunistic in nature. The Georgian delegation, as it has done in the past, is using this theme and its humanitarian chara…
We are grateful to the heads of the Tribunals and the Residual Mechanism for briefing us on the judicial proceedings, the speed at which they are winding up and the transition to the Residual Mechanism.
In resolutions 2193 (2014) and 2194 (2014), the Security Council took a step in the direction of…
