According to United Nations data, the Russian
Federation is the second most popular destination for migrants, owing largely to some of the consequences of the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On a temporary or ongoing basis, about 11 million foreign nationals and stateless persons a…
International relations are becoming increasingly complex and multidimensional, while developments in the world are even more rapid and less predictable. Under these circumstances as never before, there is an urgent need to agree upon collective responses to the key issues of today. It is solely wit…
We thank Mr. Jamal Benomar, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Yemen, for his briefing, as well as Mr. Abdul Latif Bin Rashid Al Zayani, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and Mr. Abubaker A. Al-Qirbi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Yemen, for their statements.
The process…
Resolution 2118 (2013), just adopted, is fully in keeping with the Russian-American agreements achieved in Geneva on 14 September. That was the result of coordinated efforts by the Russian Federation and the United States of America, backed by all the members of the Security Council and the majority…
At the outset, let me express our condolences to the Government and people of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with respect to the heavy human loss arising from the destructive earthquake in the province of Beluchistan. We ask the representative of Pakistan to convey our condolences and our support …
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the cross-regional group, which includes the following States: Belarus, Bolivia, China, Cuba, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nicaragua, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and my own country, the Russian Federation.
We have joined th…
We thank Mr. Ján Kubiš for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and his introduction of the report of the Secretary-General (S/2013/535), as well as to the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan for his very comprehensive statement.
The alarming situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghani…
We would like to thank the delegation of Argentina for its successful presidency of the Security Council last month. We are also grateful to Ambassador Quinlan for his briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). We thank him and the entire …
We welcome the presence of Mr. Ivan Mrkić, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, in today’s meeting and share the ideas he has expressed. We have carefully listened to Mr. Enver Hoxhaj.
We thank Mr. Zarif for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations I…
We welcome your participation in presiding over the Security Council at today’s meeting, Sir, thereby demonstrating the importance of the situation in Haiti for the Latin American region. I would also like to congratulate Ms. Sandra Honoré on her appointment as Special Representative of the Secretar…
We thank Argentina for hosting today’s debate, which is taking place during World Humanitarian Day as we mark the deaths of those killed 10 years ago in a tragic attack against United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.
We thank the Secretary-General, the heads of the United Nations Office for the Coo…
We are pleased to welcome you, Madam President, to preside over the Security Council. We are grateful to the Argentine delegation for its initiative in holding an open debate in the Council on such a topical issue as United Nations cooperation with regional and subregional organizations. The presenc…
We would like to thank the United States delegation for the initiative of convening this debate of the Security Council on such a relevant topic. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of a number of high-level officials.
We have from the outset actively supported the good offices of the S…
The Russian Federation welcomes the update provided by United States Secretary of State John Kerry at the press conference held in Amman on 19 July as to the agreement in principle to launch Palestinian-
Israeli negotiations on the final status of the Palestinian territories. We welcome the planned…
We learned with interest about the initiative of the United States delegation to return to a discussion of one of the aspects of the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict, namely, the protection of journalists. We would like to thank Deputy Secretary- General Eliasson and the other …
We are grateful to Ambassador Gary Quinlan for presenting his report on the activities of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006). The Committee must continue to work impartially and objectively and in the interest of a political and diplomatic solution concerni…
We thank the Force Commanders, Lieutenant General Dos Santos Cruz, Major General Ngondi and Major General Iqbal Asi, for their briefings on current issues of concern to peacekeeping operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire and United Nations peacekeeping overall.…
We would like at the outset to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ján Kubiš for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) (S/2013/350).
We listened with interest to the statement made by the Pe…
We would like to echo the words of previous speakers in condemning the attack in Mogadishu.
Natural resources are above all a major factor of sustainable development. They often underpin the economies of many developed and developing countries. States possess inalienable sovereign rights over their…
We thank the United Kingdom for conducting today’s debate. We are grateful to the briefers for their attention to the protection of children in armed conflict and for the useful information they have provided in that context to the Council.
Children continue to suffer from the horrors of war. Russi…
