Mr. Fabius, we are pleased to welcome you as President of the Security Council today. We are grateful to you for convening today’s meeting on such an important and topical subject, which the Russian Federation considers particularly significant, as was also indicated in the speech on Christians in t…
The statement made by the representative of Ukraine has shown once again that his delegation is trying to exploit any opportunity it can to repeat its baseless insinuations against Russia. His remarks are particularly cynical when they are made in the context of a debate on the situation of children…
I should like to thank the delegation of France for its initiative in convening today’s meeting. We also thank the Secretary-General and the invited briefers for their dedication to preventing and addressing the violation of children’s right in armed conflict and for the valuable information they ha…
We would like to thank Ambassador Oyarzun
Marchesi, Permanent Representative of Spain, for the briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), which he chairs, for the period under review. I would also like to thank the Spanish delegation for t…
I thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Sandra Honoré for introducing the Secretary-General’s report on the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (S/2015/157) and offering her assessment of the situation in the country.
Over the reporting period, the general situation in Hai…
We wish first to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haysom, for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and, of course, Ambassador Tanin for his substantive briefing.
We agree with the assessment we heard today. A difficult situation continues to prevail in Afghanis…
We would first like to warmly welcome Ms. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to the Security Council, and we thank her and the Secretary-General for their briefings.
The Russian Federation has consistently advocated the development…
The representative of Ukraine would be well
advised to choose his words more wisely. Ukraine is a neighbour of Russia, and we are trying to find a solution to the crisis. Therefore Ms. Power should be asked who is the arsonist there — she is laughing now — and what she, together with Mr. Parubiy, s…
First of all, with regard to Ms. Savchenko, an investigation is under way. Accusations have been made and there is a legal procedure under way. In Ukraine, there are many people being detained and held prisoner who are not subject to any legal procedure. The provision of the Minsk agreements with re…
I want to say a few words. First, I wish to make a brief comment on Crimea, even though I said earlier that we were not going to discuss Crimea in the Security Council, I will give just one figure — 93 per cent. In a recent opinion poll conducted by a German institute, 93 per cent of the inhabitants…
That logic is completely distorted. I would even put it another way. It is very strange that the United States stated that the use of chemical weapons by the Government of Syria would be a red line and that it would cause the Unites States to use force, and yet after the events of 21 August it did n…
Unfortunately, the statement made by the the representative of the United States forces me to make rather detailed comments, since Ambassador Power cast the situation in such a light as to suggest that the onus is exclusively on the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Let me start with resoluti…
The last three speakers employed 50 shades of black. We would like to call on everyone to be more objective, which is in the interest of settling the conflict. However, we understand that in this case such appeals are useless.
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2209 (2015), in connection with the reports of the fact-finding mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) regarding the use of chlorine as a chemical weapon in the Syrian Arab Republic (S/2015/138, annex). In that …
We, too, wish to congratulate the French delegation on the assumption of its presidential functions.
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2206 (2015), guided by the importance of supporting the Council’s unity in the interest of settling the situation in South Sudan. However, we con…
The delegation of the Russian Federation has the honour to introduce on its own behalf, and on behalf of a large group of sponsors, the draft resolution contained in document A/69/L.52, entitled “Seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War”.
This year we will celebrate the commemorati…
We thank Ms. Kang and Mr. Guterres for their comprehensive briefings. We listened carefully to the information provided by our Security Council colleagues. We are grateful to the humanitarian workers and agencies who are working under fire in Syria, risking their lives in an attempt to alleviate suf…
I would like to make two brief comments.
First, some members of the Council have abused today’s meeting, which is supposed to be devoted to the activities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Particularly unfortunate was the statement made by the representative of the …
We are pleased to welcome to the Security Council the First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić, in his capacity as Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and we thank him for his comprehensive briefing.
The Russian…
I would like to start by conveying my gratitude to Mr. Wang Yi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of China, for having organized today’s debate. The theme proposed for discussion today is a very timely one on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, and it allows us to…
