We are grateful to Mr. Menkerios and Mr. Mkapa for their briefings and the work they have done. We also welcome the statements by the representatives of the Sudanese parties.
The exercise in expressing the will of the people was a success thanks to the commitment of the leadership in North and Sout…
We would like to welcome Baroness Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission.
This Security Council meeting takes place just a few days after the conclusion of the Munich Security Conference, whic…
I would first like to express our gratitude to all the members of the Security Council and the United Nations for their solidarity and support in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Domodedovo International Airport.
We are grateful to the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Legal Issue…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General and the Deputy Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, as well as
to the Chairperson of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their contributions to today’s discussion.
In its meetings the Security Council regularly considers issues of post-conflict peacebuilding, both …
We are grateful to Under-Secretaries-General Le Roy and Amos for their informative briefings on developments in Haiti. We also listened with interest to the statement by Mr. Cazeau, Haiti’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
The situation in Haiti remains difficult. The devastat…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his briefing on developments in the situation in the Middle East.
The situation in the region remains tense and of particular concern to us is the lack of progress towards the resumption of direct Palestinian and Israeli dialogue. The current visit to the…
The self-determination referendum in Southern Sudan marks the culmination of the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) by the Sudanese parties. Russian representatives were involved in monitoring the
referendum; according to them, the polling took place in a generally calm and f…
We thank Mr. Staffan de Mistura for his
thorough analysis of the situation in Afghanistan. We greatly value the work of Mr. De Mistura and the Mission he heads.
The Kabul process is at a watershed point in the continuing tense conditions in the country’s military and political situation. The main …
The Russian delegation abstained from the voting for the following reasons.
The adoption of resolution 1966 (2010) by the Council was a step it was forced to take as a result of the Tribunals’ drawing out their activities. The work of the Tribunals was to end by the deadlines established by resolut…
We thank the United States presidency for organizing today’s meeting.
We are grateful to the Secretary-General and Ms. Wallström, Mr. Le Roy and General Gaye for the important information that they have provided.
Unfortunately, in spite of the existence of an entire arsenal of international instru…
My delegation is grateful for the briefings that we have heard this morning and welcomes this morning’s constructive discussion. We believe that, whatever the outcome of the referendum may be, it will not only determine the future and status of the Southern Sudan, but will also impact significantly …
Today’s meeting of the Security Council opens a new chapter in the contemporary history of Iraq. We have just adopted three resolutions lifting the majority of Chapter VII restrictions placed on that country. This was possible as a result of the planned and joint work of the Iraqi authorities and th…
In the light of the negative consequences of the global financial and economic crisis, the increase in the number and scale of natural disasters and continuing armed conflict mean that the international community needs the humanitarian services of the United Nations more than ever.
Russia supports …
We, too, are grateful to the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006), Ambassador Nishida, for his briefing on the work of the Committee over the past three months. We deeply appreciate his efforts in chairing the Committee, which has done a great deal of work in that ti…
Since June 2000, Russia has been an active participant in the Kimberley Process. In that time, significant work has been done, the effectiveness of which has been demonstrated above all in the pooling of efforts of various parties and observers to resolve the major problem of how to exclude conflict…
At the outset, I wish to express our gratitude to the Secretary-General for his reports on maritime issues (A/65/69, A/65/69/Add.1 and A/65/69/Add.2). As in past years, these are valuable tools in assessing the current situation and determining priority areas for further work in this area in the lig…
We thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the Tribunals for the information they have provided on their efforts to implement their completion strategies. Their briefings are especially important now as the Security Council Informal Working Group on International Tribunals is seeking to convert the …
The international community is still focused on the Middle East but, despite its efforts, the Palestinian-Israeli peace process is still stagnating. The situation concerns us greatly.
This past year has demonstrated that if the chronic mutual distrust of the parties is not dealt with and if there i…
For the fourth year in a row, we have before us a draft resolution on the status of internally displaced persons and refugees in Abkhazia, Georgia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia (A/65/L.74). As before, it has nothing to do either with reality or with concern for the status of inter…
The focused and effective action of health- care systems was one of the major tasks of the High- level Plenary Meeting this year. Therefore, in my statement, I want to deal with one of the important aspects of this matter, and that is the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
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