We would like to thank Mr. Zarif, Special Representative of the Secretary-Genral, for presenting the Secretary- General’s report (S/2013/254) on the activities of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We welcome the participation in this meeting of the Prime Minister o…
This is now the sixth year in a row that the draft text introduced today (A/67/L.68) has been presented to the General Assembly. Its sponsors invariably declare that in promoting this initiative they are motivated by concern for the needs of those who, as the result of well-known and tragic events, …
We are grateful to the leadership of the Tribunals for their briefings on their work, their completion strategies and the transition to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. We have noted the recent trial and acquittal in the Stanišić and Simatović case. We see in that decisio…
The Russian Federation is wedded to the purposes and principles of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (resolution 65/277, annex) and considers it to be a key framework basis for bolstering international cooperation in combating the immunodeficiency virus. On the whole, we agree with the prog…
At the outset, we thank the Secretary-General and the briefers who have been invited to the Council for their statements and useful information on combating sexual violence in armed conflict.
The Security Council, over the past five years, has repeatedly considered the topic of sexual violence in a…
We welcome you, Mr. President, in your capacity as President of this Security Council meeting, which comes as a follow-up to the successful international Conference on Somalia held in London.
We are pleased to welcome Her Excellency Ms. Fowsiyo Yusuf Haji Adan, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign…
We would like to thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda for her report and her briefing today. The Russian Federation supports the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the situation in Darfur pursuant to resolution 1593 (2005). We view the Court’s efforts in that area as an important c…
We agree with the alarming assessment of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Abou Moussa, of the negative impact of the armed conflict in the Central African Republic on neighbouring States, which is reflected, in particular, in the increase over the past six months of the numbe…
At the outset, please allow me to express our gratitude to the presidency of the General Assembly for the opportunity to discuss the issue of human trafficking at this high-level meeting. As a current global threat, human trafficking is as great a social danger as are drug trafficking and terrorism.…
We listened carefully to the statement of High Representative Inzko. His report to the Security Council (S/2013/263, annex) is informative and detailed, but unfortunately it is far from an objective analysis of the true situation in the country and suffers from bias in its criticism of the Bosnian S…
Let me thank the Togolese presidency for its initiative to hold today’s meeting on such a relevant topic. We view this meeting as a contribution to strengthening the central coordinating role of the United Nations and the Security Council in the fight against terrorism. We are grateful to the Secret…
We thank the Permanent Representatives of the Republic of Korea, Australia and Morocco for their detailed reports on the Committees they chair. We take note of their fruitful work in the context of their chairmanships.
Terrorism, despite all of the efforts of the international community, remains on…
At the outset, allow me to thank Ms. Fatou Bensouda for her briefing and presentation of her fifth report on the investigations in Libya pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011).
We support the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute individuals who committed heinous crimes during …
We welcome the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Leonid Kozhara, and we thank him for his detailed statement.
The Russian Federation has consistently called for cooperation between the United Nat…
The chief task of peacebuilding is to eliminate the root causes of conflicts and preventing their resurgence. All of that must be primarily based on States’ internal efforts, since in that area the role of
the United Nations and regional organizations is one of support for national efforts. Peacebu…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of
resolution 2100 (2013) in view of the importance of increasing assistance to the Republic of Mali in its efforts to deal with a complex and comprehensive crisis, as well as in response to a request by the country’s authorities, supported by the relevant reg…
The situation with regard to the settlement of the crises in the Middle East remains quite fragile. That was confirmed yet again by the renewed tension in early April when Palestinian fighters from Gaza fired rockets at Israeli territory, and the Israeli Air Force, in response, struck the Gaza Strip…
We would like to once again welcome you, Madam Minister, as you preside over this meeting, which we thank you for organizing. We would also like to express our gratitude to the Special Representative of
the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflicts, Ms. Bangura. As we can see, thanks to her…
We are glad to welcome you, Madam Minister, to the presidency of the Security Council. We are grateful to the delegation of Rwanda for convening this meeting on this very important topic, namely, the prevention of conflicts in Africa by addressing the root causes. Undoubtedly, that issue is crucial …
The draft international arms trade treaty (ATT) we are considering today contains a whole range of positive elements. Upon Russia’s initiative, with which a significant number of delegations have associated themselve, a fundamentally new article has been formulated, one that prompts States to preven…
