The Russian Federation welcomes the agreement on resolution on cross-cutting issues in peacekeeping, especially in the context of the failed attempts to do so in the past two sessions.
We believe that this year the consensus was achieved thanks to many factors, and we would like to comment in parti…
We live in an age of globalization that offers immense possibilities for the economic, social and political development of society. However, open borders, free market concepts and various technological achievements are not only of benefit to the peoples of the world, but are actively used by the org…
We thank the Presidents and Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for their information on the current state of affairs at the Tribunals and on measures being taken to complete pending legal proceedings.…
We are grateful to you, Sir, for your initiative in holding today’s meeting and to the Secretary- General for preparing the overview report (S/2010/181). We also thank Ms. Coomaraswamy, Mr. Khare, Ms. Johnson and Ms. Gurung for their information.
Russia supports the call by the Secretary-General to…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Mbeki, Chairperson of the African Union High-Level Panel on Darfur, Special Representatives Gambari and Menkerios and Joint Chief Mediator Bassolé. We thank them for sharing their assessments of the situation.
The Sudan is passing through a dec…
International efforts to combat HIV/AIDS have allowed much progress to be achieved in recent years. However, the spread of the epidemic continues to outstrip the measures taken to respond to it. For every two patients beginning antiretroviral treatment, there are five new cases of infection. A sure …
Russia voted in favour of resolution 1929 (2010) on the basis of its consistent principled position regarding the Iranian nuclear issue. We have consistently advocated a resolution of all the international community’s questions concerning Iran’s nuclear programme through dialogue and constructive co…
We welcome the statement to the Council by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkey, as well as the briefing on the situation by Mr. Oscar Fernandez- Taranco.
We express our condolences and deep regret about all those who have died as a result of this incident. In Moscow we are expressing our con…
We are pleased to welcome you, Sir, to the presidency of the Security Council, and we thank the Lebanese delegation for its initiative to convene
today’s meeting on the important and topical theme of intercultural dialogue. We are also grateful to the Secretary-General for his statement, which enri…
Of course, I was not planning to take the floor again, and I certainly do not wish now to become involved in a debate on the foundations of the divergent assessments of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, or on the differing assessments of the factors hindering agreement among the Bosnian parti…
We have listened carefully to the assessment of the current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Mr. Haris Silajdžić, Chairman of the Presidency of that country. Unfortunately, that assessment was unilateral and unconstructive.
We thank Mr. Valentin Inzko, High Representative for Bosnia and Herze…
We, too, welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the President of Djibouti, Mr. Guelleh, and thank him for his assessments.
Unfortunately, there has still been no progress in the settlement of the Djibouti-Eritrea border conflict. Unlike Djibouti, Eritrea has ignored resolutions 1862 (2009)…
We are grateful to Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), for introducing the report of the Secretary-General on UNMIK (S/2010/169) and for his efforts in the complex situation in the dist…
We too are grateful to Mr. Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Somalia, for his briefing on the situation in Somalia. We listened with interest to the statements of Mr. Abdurahman A. Ibrahim, First Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, and of Mr. Ramtane Lamamra o…
Thank you, Madam President, for having organized this regular briefing by the Chairs of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council related to counter-terrorism. Our gratitude goes also to the Permanent Representatives of Turkey, Mexico and Austria for their comprehensive briefings on the work of the …
Today’s meeting of the General Assembly is dedicated to an event that determined the fate of all humankind — and of all the world’s peoples. Sixty- five years ago, States describing themselves as the United Nations and as the anti-Hitler coalition won a historic victory over Naziism.
I wish at the …
Mr. President, allow me at the outset to congratulate you on your assumption of the important functions of President of the Security Council and to wish you every success in your work.
We welcome Baroness Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European …
Resolution 1920 (2010), extending by a further 12 months the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, is the result of prolonged and complex discussions, first within the Group of Friends and then within the Security Council. Working on the resolution, the Russian …
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Prime Minister Bellerive of Haiti. We thank Mr. Edmond Mulet, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his comprehensive briefing on recent developments in Haiti and his introduction of the Secretary-General’s report (S/2010/200).
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At the outset, we thank the Japanese presidency for having convened today’s meeting. We also congratulate Ms. Margot Wallström on her appointment as Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. We are prepared to cooperate with her in fulfilment of her mandate.
We…
