We are pleased to welcome you, Sir, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of your country, to the President’s chair at this Security Council meeting, and thank our German colleagues for taking the initiative to hold this meeting and for their very professional chairmanship of the Council’s Working Group …
Mr. President, you were about to put to the vote a text before us in document S/2011/417. As far as I understand from the consultations, the adoption of the draft resolution, with the inclusion of the date of 10 July, with the resulting retroactive effect on the Mission, is not in line with the Coun…
Allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on your assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for July. I wish you every success. I also wish to thank the Gabonese delegation for its June presidency and work.
We are grateful to Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his substantive and frank analysis of the …
The Russian Federation was the initiator of the first draft resolution on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights for another six months. We support the important stabilizing role played by the Force, and we believe that it…
We are grateful to the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr. Yury Fedotov, for his comprehensive briefing.
We view today’s meeting as an important step in strengthening the contacts between the Security Council and UNODC. We support the Security Council’s intention to co…
We are grateful to the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), Ambassador Néstor Osorio of Colombia, for his briefing to the Council on the Committee’s work in recent months. We appreciate the effective work that was done during the reporting period. I…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Muburi-Muita, for his detailed briefing.
Today’s meeting, as shown by the statements by our colleagues, reaffirms the particular attention that the Security Council continues to give to issues pertaining to the settlement o…
We are grateful to Ms. O’Brien for her briefing and for the thorough analysis contained in the report of the Secretary-General (S/2011/360) on the legal and practical aspects of the establishment of specialized anti-piracy courts in Somaliland and Puntland and an extraterritorial Somali court with i…
At the outset, we would like to congratulate former President Mbeki and Mr. Menkerios for their important success in today’s signing of the agreement aimed at settling the conflict in the Abyei Area. We welcome the desire for compromise shown on this
matter by both Khartoum and Juba. We would like …
Russia voted in favour of resolution 1984 (2011), which extends the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) on sanctions against Iran.
The Panel is an important component of the Iranian sanctions regime and does useful and practical work in as…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, for having taken the initiative to hold today’ s very timely meeting of the Security Council, on the eve of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly, where Member States will adopt a comprehensive political declaration on the key areas for a global respon…
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the French presidency for leading the Council’s work successfully in May, and we wish you every success, Mr. President, in leading the Council this month. We also thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the Tribunals for presenting their reports.
Toda…
In the spirit of our close cooperation during the mission itself, Ambassador Rice has just briefed the Council in both our names.
Sir Mark Lyall Grant (United Kingdom): The leg of the Security Council visit in Nairobi was jointly chaired by Ambassador Sangqu and myself. We also worked very cooperat…
We would like to welcome the Minister for International and Regional Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mr. Raymong Tshibanda, to today’s meeting.
We believe that the process of settling the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has seen substantial positive progress. …
We express our gratitude to the Permanent Representatives of India, Germany and South Africa for their reports on the work of the Committees they respectively head.
The Russian Federation views the stepping up of efforts in the work of these Committees as an important precondition to enhancing the …
We are grateful to Mr. Guéhenno and Ms. Malcorra for their briefings on the report of the Senior Advisory Group (see S/2011/85) and to Mr. Gasana, Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission, for his comments.
We believe that the report reflects the main problems in peacebuilding. Indeed, it prov…
We would like to thank Mr. Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, for introducing the report (S/2011/281) of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). We welcome the participation of Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister for Forei…
Sir, you are absolutely right, but we have listened to three very important statements. It seems to me that it may be useful to discuss those statements before the Council gives its final endorsement to the text.
We are grateful to Ms. Amos, Mr. Le Roy and Mr. Šimonović for their briefings.
The issue of the protection of civilians holds a prominent place on the Security Council’s agenda. We welcome regular discussion of the topic and the close attention to the various aspects of the protection of civilians …
