The Russian delegation called for today’s emergency meeting of the Security Council with a view to considering the resumed punitive military operations undertaken by the authorities of the Kyiv regime, involving terrorists, the pro-fascist Right Sector and other ultranationalist organizations agains…
I certainly do not want to prolong our meeting here this evening. The simplest of answers would be to again read the statement I made earlier, which refletcts our vision and position. However, allow me a very brief comment.
A great deal has been said here about some sort of wrong interpretation of …
The recent events in south-eastern Ukraine and the country as a whole are of the most serious concern. The Kyiv regime, spurred on by Western well-wishers, are stubbornly pushing the country to disaster. Today, Western colleagues have spoken many critical words regarding the activities of protesters…
Today, 29 April, is the deadline of the nine-month time frame set for reaching an agreement between the Palestinians and Israelis. From the beginning, we have supported that new round of peace talks on which, despite all the foreseen challenges, many hopes were laid. It is unfortunate that our worst…
I welcome the participation of Foreign Minister Aminu Bashir Wali of Nigeria as President of the Security Council at this meeting, which reaffirms the importance of security sector reform to African countries.
We are considering security sector reform in the context of post-conflict peacebuilding e…
I, too, would like to thank you, Madam President, for convening this meeting. I also thank the Secretary-General, his Special Representative and Ms. Misaka for their statements and the information they have presented to us on issues of sexual violence in armed conflict.
For almost six years, the Se…
First of all, I feel compelled to pause on various assertions that my Ukrainian colleague just made in his statement. I cannot analyse his entire statement, particularly since it is impossible to figure out which parts of his speech are his own and which parts are borrowed from some mystery source, …
I would like to thank Mr. Jan Eliasson and Mr. Keating for their briefings. We listened with great emotion and attention to the statement made by the representative of Rwanda.
Today we remember the tragic events of 1994 in Rwanda, which for the past 20 years have evoked in the international communi…
The recent events in south-east Ukraine are of great concern. On 13 April, having convened an emergency meeting of the Security Council (see S/PV.7154), the Russian delegation has insistently called upon a number of members of the Council to use all tools available to them to prevent the use of forc…
I shall not take up much of the Council’s time. I should just like to say two things.
First, the representative of Ukraine is far too easy in characterizing his own people as bandits. The Right Sector and those who say the demonstrators should be killed are not bandits; they are simply the politica…
Many words have been spoken and many pronouncements made here today. But the first impression I would like to share with my colleagues is that they have not been looking at the clock. It is now 9.30 p.m. our time, which means that in Ukraine it is about 3.30 a.m. That means that in a couple of hours…
The Russian Federation has called for this emergency meeting of the Security Council because of the serious dangerous evolution of the situation in south-eastern Ukraine. We have pointed out on several occasions, including in this Chamber, that the reckless actions that led to the coup d’état by the…
Road safety has been and remains one of the today’s most pressing issues. Deaths and injuries in road traffic accidents pose a serious threat to global health and have a very negative impact on social and economic progress and sustainable development.
The inclusion of road safety in the agenda of t…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the cross-regional group, which includes Belarus, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Syria, Venezuela and my own country, the Russian Federation.
We decided to join the consensus on resolution 68/268, entitled “Strengthening and enhancing the ef…
We consider peacebuilding assistance to be one of the key factors in the effective settlement of conflicts and in preventing their recurrence. We also believe that the success and long-term nature of the results of such assistance depends upon following the principle of national ownership of States …
The Security Council’s guest today, Mr. Samura M.W. Kamara, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Sierra Leone, has convincingly shown that today marks a genuine milestone for his country. With the work of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in …
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Sandra Honoré, for presenting the latest report (S/2014/162) of the Secretary-General on the work of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
There have been many signs of stabilization in Haiti lately. Despite th…
We thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), which he chairs. In our view, the very dry nature of his briefing is what makes it stand out.
Russian diplomacy has, over many years, worked very actively …
I have a feeling that there is something in our proposal that our French colleague does not like. That is the impression I am left with. But we did not submit it as a draft resolution of the Security Council. It was discussed by Secretary of State Kerry and Minister Lavrov in great detail. They tabl…
I do not want to exchange polemics with my Ukrainian colleagues and I do not think there is going to be a lengthy discussion, but there are two comments that I wish to make.
What is cynicism? Cynicism is attempting to provoke a conflict by shooting both at one’s own side and the other side. Today, …
