The statement we just heard by the representative of the Ukrainian delegation once again reiterated unfounded accusations directed at Russia. It is regrettable that Ukraine persists in its efforts to use the various forums of the United Nations, including the General Assembly, to repeat its fabricat…
There is growing evidence today of a contradiction between the need for collective and partnership efforts in order to develop adequate responses to the challenges common to us all, on the one hand, and, on the other, the aspiration of a number of States to domination and a revival of the archaic bl…
Terrorism, which has been strengthened ideologically and logistically and through its ties to transnational organized crime, is fuelled by drug trafficking, seized oil fields and extremist ideas, including those based on religion and ethnicity. Terrorism penetrates the fabric of regional conflicts.
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First of all, we are coming to the end of the meeting and finally we are ending on a positive note. I am very happy to hear the Foreign Minister of Australia say that experts are ready to go back to the crash site. That is indeed what we have called for in our statement today.
But the Minister shou…
I would just like to respond to the statement made just now by the representative of Lithuania and then to the representative of the United Kingdom.
I do not really understand why the representative of Lithuania is raising the question. Why would Russia not convene the meeting? She blamed us for th…
While you hold the presidency, Madam President, you do not have the right to pass judgment on the status of the Russian Federation in the Security Council. The second part of your statement only shows that you are attempting to dilute the circumstances. Let me put it this way. Even if everything you…
As we initiated today’s meeting, and as a number of assertions have been made concerning, in one way or another, with the content of our statement and the Russian position, I would like to make a few remarks.
First, in some statements, there were affirmations that Russia, in its statement in today’…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his briefing, and we listened with special attention to the statement made by Mr. Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq.
Russia has consistently supported the advancement of the…
First, I thank you, Madam President, for convening today’s meeting, which was initiated by the delegation of the Russian Federation. I also thank the Under-Secretary-General for his briefing and express our particular gratitude to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, a country that h…
We, too, would of course like to convey our gratitude to the Secretary-General, the Senior United Nations Coordinator for Ebola and the Director- General of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as the representative of Médecins Sans Frontières, for their very comprehensive statements.
The r…
We would like to thank Mr. Ján Kubiš for the briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and for introducing the report of the Secretary-General (S/2014/656). We would also like to thank Permanent Representative Zahir Tanin for his statement.
We share the concerns and anxieties that have been expresse…
We would like to thank Ambassador Quinlan for his briefing covering the work undertaken during the reporting period by the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), which he chairs. Given the extension of the mandate of the Panel of Experts tasked with providing that subsidiary body …
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Sandra Honoré for introducing the Secretary-General’s report before us (S/2014/617) and for her assessment of the situation in Haiti.
We agree that national dialogue remains of utmost importance to stabilizing the situation in the country. Si…
We have had to take the floor once again with regard to the statement made by the representative of Ukraine. Our Ukrainian colleagues’ attempts to use any United Nations context to spread trumped- up accusations about the Russian Federation are not surprising. It is clear that their assertions are n…
We are grateful to the United States delegation for its initiative to convene today’s meeting. We also would like to thank all the invited briefers for their assessment of the situation on the protection of children in armed conflict and their commitment to that objective. We would like especially t…
We would like to join the positive assessments of your efforts, Sir, as the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session. In particular, we would like to thank you for preparing the draft of decision 68/557, which was just adopted as an oral decision. It will help to open up the pat…
I believe that Mr. Hoxhaj’s comments are an attempt to lead the discussion away from the topics that we have been discussing today.
With regard to the events in Crimea, I would like to recall that over 80 per cent of voters in Crimea took part in the referendum there, unlike in the elections in Kos…
We welcome the participation in this meeting of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić. We agree with the comments he made and we took note of the statement by Mr. Enver Hoxhaj. We thank Mr. Zarif for his presentation of the report…
I would like to say a few words to our Ukrainian colleagues.
First, as he did in a previous statement, hinting at Russia, the representative of Ukraine — just as the representative of the United States did — mentioned the Malaysia Airlines flight. Could he please tell the Council why Ukraine has no…
The current escalating situation in south- eastern Ukraine is a direct consequence of Kyiv’s reckless policy of waging war on its own people. With the support and under the influence of a number of well-known States, the Kyiv authorities have torpedoed all the political agreements for settling the c…
