We are grateful for the report prepared by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) on progress in preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and in combating them (see A/68/650).
The Russian Federation attaches great importance to the deliberations at the United Nations on the …
The statement made today by the representative of Georgia was most unfortunate. Such attacks on my country call into question the solidity of the current Georgian leadership and its desire to normalize relations with Russia. If we desire stable peace, as has been said today by a number of delegation…
“War, its lessons and the search for permanent peace” is the theme chosen by the Jordanian delegation for today’s open debate, raising the bar to an unprecedentedly high level. This theme has boggled the minds of thinkers for centuries, and it remains relevant today. There are solid starting points …
Given the urgent need to scale up the peacekeeping presence in the Central African Republic, we supported the adoption of resolution 2134 (2014), which, inter alia, approves the deployment of a European Union operation in support of the African Union (AU) International Support Mission. We hope that …
We are pleased to welcome you today, Mr. Minister, as President of the Security Council. We also congratulate Jordan on its assumption of the presidency of the Council.
The General Assembly has designated the year 2014 the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The Russian Fe…
I would first like to thank you, Mr. President, for presenting draft resolution A/C.5/68/L.15. Despite the fact that the Russian Federation decided not to oppose its adoption, we feel compelled to express our regret over the non-inclusion of our proposal for strengthening the Tribunals’ budgetary di…
The Russian Federation thanks the Republic of South Africa for its successful chairmanship of the Kimberley Process in 2013 and its effective consultations and coordination in preparing draft resolution A/68/L.29, entitled “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict: breaking the link between the ill…
We thank the French presidency for having convened this Council meeting on the relevant topic of combating illegal drug trafficking in West Africa and the Sahel. We are grateful to the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),…
At the outset, we wish to thank the delegation of Guatemala for its efforts in preparing the text of resolution 2130 (2013). We abstained in the voting on the resolution on the basis of the following concerns.
The situation with respect to the exit strategy of the International Tribunal for the For…
We are grateful to Mr. Ján Kubiš for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and for presenting the report of the Secretary-General (S/2013/721). We also thank Mr. Zahir Tanin, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, for his detailed statement.
We are pleased to note that, in comparison with …
The Security Council and the Secretary- General must rightly give priority to the humanitarian situation in the Sahel region. That is the very reason we welcomed the appointment of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to the Sahel, who is a man of politics of world renown, Mr. Romano Prodi. We…
Continuing man-made and other natural disasters and armed conflicts require effective and coordinated action on the part of the international community, placing heavy demands on the United Nations humanitarian machinery. The legal framework of United Nations activities in that sphere was created by …
We thank Ambassador Gary Quinlan for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We are grateful to him and the Australian delegation for their skilful leadership of that subsidiary body of the Security Council.
Russia’s diplomacy over the years has bee…
The Russian Federation welcomes and fully supports the efforts of the United Nations, and in particular those of the World Health Organization, aimed at strengthening multilateral cooperation and promoting national capacity-building in the field of health care.
The inclusion of health care as one o…
We would like to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the eighteenth report to the Council and for her briefing today.
The ICC is called upon to make an important contribution to efforts to bring to justice those involved in the gravest crimes committed during the Darf…
We share the feeling of deep sadness at the passing of Nelson Mandela, a leading political figure with whom the entire world associated a sense of fairness and freedom.
We thank the Presidents of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the F…
We welcome the convening of today’s meeting of the General Assembly on the revitalization of its work. I take this opportunity to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Slovakia and Thailand on their appointment as co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the…
We are grateful to the Permanent Representatives of Australia, Morocco and the Republic of Korea for their reports on the Committees they head. What they do is an important contribution to strengthening the central coordinating role of the United Nations and its Security Council in the area of inter…
We thank Mr. Abou Moussa for his briefing.
We agree with the concerns expressed today with regard to the negative impacts of the armed conflict in the Central African Republic on the situation in the subregion. While it is true that the crisis in that country stems, inter alia, from illegal flows o…
First of all, the Russian Federation aligns itself with the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Tajikistan on behalf of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan remains the main focus of the international community’s close attent…
