Russia is deeply concerned about the continued deadlock in the Palestinian-Israeli track of the Middle East settlement. Bilaterally and multilaterally, including within the Quartet of international intermediaries, we are working actively to
break the deadlock and relaunch a substantive negotiation …
We attach great importance to the convening of this open debate of the Security Council on the issue of its working methods. In our view, the very fact of conducting the meeting in this format bears witness to the improved transparency of the Council’s work. Pursuant to the United Nations Charter, t…
We thank Mr. Zarif for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (S/2011/675). I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate him on his official appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary-Gener…
We are grateful for the statement of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. We thank the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization, M…
We thank Mr. Da Costa, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste, for his statement, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Haq, for her briefing on the activities of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT).
We welcome recent developments…
The Russian Federation fully endorses the conclusions of the statement made by the representative of the Republic of Belarus on behalf of
the States members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
The Russian Federation actively participated in the negotiations on, and supports, draft reso…
The Russian Federation has traditionally been a sponsor of the General Assembly resolution on a culture of peace. We are convinced that, in this era of globalization, the main conditions for achieving lasting peace are mutual understanding, respect for the diversity of cultures, traditions and relig…
Unfortunately, we have no choice but to recognize that High Representative Inzko’s analysis of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina can hardly be called objective. His report (S/2011/682, annex) again reflects considerable prejudice against the Bosnian Serb leadership. In order to gain a more bal…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Abou Moussa for his informative briefing on the activities of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and the situation in the region with respect to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). We listened with interest to the stat…
We express our gratitude to the Permanent Representatives of India, Germany and South Africa for their reports on the work of the Committees under their leadership.
Russia considers the future stepping up of efforts under the Committees as a precondition to enhancing the effectiveness of the Securi…
The issue of Security Council reform is one of the most important on today’s agenda. This is largely because in this case we are dealing with one of the principal organs of the United Nations — one that, according to the Charter of the United Nations, bears the primary responsibility for the mainten…
An analysis of the situation with regard to the protection of civilians in various hotspots and of our experience in implementing Security Council resolutions that include this component lead us to the discomfiting conclusion that, even with a serious international legal basis and increasing efforts…
First of all, like previous speakers, we would like to congratulate you and your team, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of November. We wish you success, especially given the very heavy agenda for the month of November. We are prepared to do everything …
The Russian delegation would like to express its appreciation to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Yukiya Amano, for his presentation of the report of the Agency (see A/66/95).
Russia greatly values the IAEA’s work in improving and strengthening the global n…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Judy Cheng-Hopkins for her comprehensive briefing on the Organization’s progress on post-conflict peacebuilding. We would also like to thank Ms. Sylvie Lucas for her briefing.
I may be repeating what has perhaps already been said this morning when …
The principal aim of resolution 2017 (2011), drafted by the Russian Federation and adopted today, is to curb the uncontrolled proliferation of weapons of all kinds and related materiel as a result of the Libyan conflict. Any serious breach of the arms embargo imposed by the Security Council is likel…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the Under-Secretary-General and head of UN-Women, Ms. Bachelet, the President of the Economic and Social Council, Ambassador Kapambwe, and the representative of civil society, Ms. Nemat, for their work on the issue of women, peace and securi…
The Russian Federation would like to express, through the presidency of the Assembly, its gratitude to Mr. Hisashi Owada, President of the International Court of Justice, for his presentation of the Court’s report (A/66/4). Given its staunch commitment to the peaceful settlement of disputes, the Rus…
At the outset we wish to express our condolences to Turkey with respect to the destructive earthquake that hit the country, which has claimed human lives.
We are grateful to Mr. Pascoe for his briefing on developments in the Middle East. We share his concerns with respect to the stalemate in the pr…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, for his substantive briefing. We also welcome the participation in this meeting of representatives of the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) and the Gulf of Guinea Commission.
The Russian Federation is seriously concerned…
