Peacebuilding activities are one of the key factors for effectively settling conflicts, stabilizing post-conflict situations and avoiding a resumption of crises. However, despite the efforts taken in that area by the United Nations through its peacekeeping operations, the Peacebuilding Support Offic…
The Russian Federation is committed to the effective implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) beyond 2014. We attach particular importance to next year’s special session of the General Assembly to review the status of the implemen…
We welcome the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union. For us, today’s meeting is important both from the standpoint of the role played by the European Union (EU) in collective efforts to support international peace and security and from the standpoint of t…
We will only touch upon certain aspects of the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict, which has been discussed at length. The topic has been on the Council’s agenda for almost 15 years. The Council regularly includes the protection of civilians in the mandates of peacekeeping operat…
We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Serry, for his detailed assessment of the situation in the Middle East. We welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Palestine, Mr. Malki, who is taking the floor for the first time in this Chamber in his new capa…
We welcome the presence of the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, Mr. Jilani, to preside over today’s open meeting on peacekeeping operations.
United Nations peacekeeping activities are facing tremendous challenges today. The geography of conflicts is expanding and their external influence growing. Des…
First of all, allow me to express my appreciation to the Pakistani presidency for the initiative to hold this Council meeting on the
strengthening of a comprehensive approach to counter- terrorism. The Russian Federation supports that approach through national measures and in advancing internationa…
First of all, I wish to state for the record that we worked under a very heavy schedule and that we have not had an opportunity to properly verify the enumerated figures on the financing of the two Tribunals. The Secretariat has assured us informally that amendments to the financing figures correspo…
We thank the Secretary-General for his briefing on peacebuilding in the aftermath of conflict. We have carefully considered the relevant report (S/2012/746). We would specifically like to thank the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh, Mr. Momen, for his productive chairing of the Peacebuilding Co…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Mr. Ján Kubiš, for his substantive briefing and for his work as the Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). We listened closely to the statement made by the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan…
Since 2000, the Russian Federation has been an active participant in the Kimberley Process. We welcome its further development in order to address the primary task of eliminating rough conflict diamonds from legitimate trade.
Widening the range of participants in the Kimberley Process contributes t…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Abou Moussa for his briefing, and we note the progress in consolidating the democratic processes in a number of States of Central Africa, including the peaceful holding of elections this summer in Angola and the Congo.
We welcome the efforts …
The Russian Federation believes that assistance in strengthening national civilian capacities is an important aspect of United Nations assistance to post-conflict States. Consistent with resolution 66/255 of 16 March 2012, the report of the Secretary-General on measures to build civilian capacity in…
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2081 (2012) for the following reasons.
It is obvious to us that there are serious systemic problems in the work of the Tribunal that that body is not dealing with by itself. The interminable trial delays, along with the clear inability of…
The recent increasing frequency of natural disasters, coupled with the ongoing occurrence of man- made catastrophes and armed conflicts, confirm the relevance of United Nations humanitarian assistance. The legal framework regulating United Nations activities in the humanitarian sphere remains resolu…
We thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for the sixteenth report to the Security Council and for today’s briefing.
The International Criminal Court is meant to make an important contribution to the effort to bring to justice perpetrators of the most serious crimes committed duri…
We thank the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), Ambassador Néstor Osorio, for his briefing on the work of the Committee. We note the high professionalism and effectiveness of the leadership of the Chair and the Colombian delegation as a whole. Under the Colombian …
We thank Under-Secretaries-General Hervé Ladsous and Ameerah Haq for their thorough briefings.
The theme of inter-mission cooperation remains very topical. We support the desire of the Secretariat to be prepared for the last-minute deployment of missions and negative developments in the field, espe…
We speak with special feeling in today’s meeting on the issue of the international law of the sea, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982. We echo words spoken yesterday and today on the historic signif…
For the past 18 months, we have followed developments in the Sahel with alarm and concern. We see there an increasingly clear manifestation of a whole host of destabilizing factors — arms flows, terrorist and drug threats, separatist tendencies, severe internal conflicts and a grave humanitarian and…
