The Russian Federation would also like to join the sponsors of draft resolution XII, entitled “The Hague Conduct of Code against Ballistic Missile Proliferation”. Unfortunately, as we were told by the representative of the Secretariat, it might not be possible to do that at this stage, but our deleg…
Colleagues are well aware of the fact that the Russian delegation is not a fan of the monthly wrap-up sessions. There is too much reiteration of well-known positions and too many attempts to glorify approaches that are not objective ones.
For example, today a number of statements contained a one-si…
A year ago, from this rostrum, we talked about support for the American efforts to establish
direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine. At the same time, we stressed the necessity of ramping up the role of the Middle East Quartet together with the Arab League, in view of the fact that arrivi…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Feltman and INTERPOL Secretary General Mr. Stock for their interesting briefings. For our part, we would like to note the following.
Sanctions are one of the most important instruments at the disposal of the international community in the interests of resolving cris…
We are grateful to Mr. Oh Joon, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea, for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). In view of the fact that this is his final briefing as Chairman of the Committee, we would like to thank the Ambassador and…
We are grateful to Special Envoy of the Secretary- General Anthony Banbury, Special Representative of the Secretary-General David Nabarro and Mr. Thomas Mauget for their briefings on the situation concerning the spread of the Ebola virus and on the existing needs of the United Nations Mission for Eb…
I am honoured to take the floor on behalf of the States members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO): the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.
The Afghan people have jus…
Given the lateness of the hour, I shall make only a brief comment.
Some delegations in today’s meeting have made inappropriate allusions to, and interpretations of, matters that have nothing to do with the topic under consideration. We believe that this distracts members from the Council’s discussi…
I welcome you to the presidency of the Security Council, Madam. We thank the Secretary- General for his comprehensive statement and the Permanent Representatives of Australia and Lithuania for their briefings on the efforts of the Committees
they lead in undertaking the tasks mandated by recent dec…
We welcome today’s meeting on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly. I take this opportunity to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Croatia and Namibia on their appointments as co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly …
I would like, first of all, to congratulate and support the States that have been elected members of the Human Rights Council at the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly. In 2014, the Russian Federation was once again a member of the Human Rights Council. The fact that Russia’s candidature re…
We welcome the outcomes of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, in Apia. We thank the Government and people of Samoa for their superb organization of that important meeting and for their hospitality. We view the outcome document of the Conference, the SIDS Accelerate…
I do not want to engage in polemics with the Permanent Representative of Ukraine, but all the same I wish to call attention to a few things.
First, I have said, and I repeat, that of course the ceasefire and the normalization of the situation are the key tasks, but they require trust. When we heard…
At the outset, I would call on my colleagues on the Security Council not to turn the Council’s meetings into farces of rabid hysterics.
We carefully listened to the briefing of the Assistant Secretary-General ad interim for PoliticalAffairs, Mr. Toynberg-Frandzen and thank him for the information p…
The question of Security Council reform is one of the most important issues on the General Assembly’s agenda, as the Council is the body that, according to the Charter of the United Nations, bears the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The final result of the Se…
We are grateful to the delegation of the Netherlands for the preparation of resolution 69/14, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons”.
Based on the spirit of cooperation and constructive interaction, we supported the consensus a…
I have the honour to speak today on three sub-items on today’s agenda: 123 (l), entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Eurasian Economic Community”, 123 (g), entitled
“Cooperation between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organization”, and 123 (w), entitled “C…
We have taken note of the eighth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on its investigation of the situation in Libya, and we thank Ms. Bensouda for her presentation of the report.
We cannot help but be concerned about the information in the report on the continuing vio…
The Russian Federation was obliged to abstain from voting because the draft resolution did not take into account the substantive criticisms we expressed during the consultations.
We recognize the importance of continuing the work of Operation Althea of the European Union led- peacekeeping force in …
We welcome the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko, who has briefed us today.
To paint an objective picture of developments in the Bosnia and Herzegovina process, we recommend that the members of the Security Council carefully familiarize themselves with the twentieth…
