I should like to express our gratitude to the members of the Council for their support of resolution 1918 (2010), which was submitted by the Russian Federation. We are grateful to our colleagues for the constructive approach and valuable ideas that made it possible to give momentum to this important…
The drafting by Security Council members in 2006 of recommendations on the Council’s working methods, which were incorporated into the relevant note of the President of the Security Council (S/2006/507), was very significant for strengthening the principles of transparency and effectiveness in the w…
We are pleased to welcome you, Sir, to the presidency of the Security Council.
We have listened with interest to the statements made today. The difficult challenge to Governments in post-conflict crisis situations requires the development of balanced strategies to resolve them, based on the interre…
I would like first to extend our deepest sympathy to the Chinese delegation in the wake of the tragic earthquake that struck their country.
We are grateful to the Secretariat and Under- Secretary-General Pascoe for the briefing on the situation in the Middle East.
We would like to reiterate the Ru…
The Russian Federation considers the General Assembly’s High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development as the central intergovernmental mechanism for coordination of the follow-up to the international conferences in Monterrey and Doha. We see the Dialogue as one of the most important platforms for…
The Security Council has just unanimously adopted an important resolution on extending the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for a further 12-month period. This decision of the Security Council addresses a range of Afghan problems and enhances the central role p…
We thank Deputy Secretary-General Migiro; Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Mr. Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs; and Mr. Louis Sylvain-Goma for their substantive briefings.
The Russian Federation has co…
We too, of course, are grateful to Under- Secretary-General Alain Le Roy for his comprehensive analysis of the situation in Afghanistan, as well as his presentation of the report on the situation there (S/2010/127). We have listened attentively to the comprehensive statement of the Permanent Represe…
The delegation of the Russian Federation was pleased to join the consensus on resolution 64/293 on the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Above all, we would like to express our gratitude to the facilitators of the negotiation process, the Permanent Representative…
First of all, Mr. President, let me congratulate you and the delegation of Gabon on your assumption of the important functions of the presidency of the Security Council for this month. I would also like to thank Ambassador Araud and the French delegation for the dynamic and skilful manner in which t…
On its own behalf and that of the 53 sponsors from all regions of the world, the Russian delegation is honoured to introduce the draft resolution contained in document A/64/L.46, entitled “Sixty-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War”. We note that since, the draft resolution was submi…
It is an honour for me to speak on behalf of the States members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO): the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan.…
Today’s consideration of the issue of road safety is of the utmost importance in the context the efforts being made by the international community in the field of development. Mortality and injury in road accidents are not only a major global public health problem; they also have a negative impact o…
At the outset, I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and the French delegation for your timely initiative to organize today’s meeting of the Security Council to consider threats to international peace and security and to adopt the important draft presidential statement before us. We are also gra…
Like many of our colleagues, we thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Ameerah Haq, for presenting the Secretary- General’s report (S/2010/85) on the work of the United
Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) and for her informative briefing on developments in the …
We thank the delegation of France for having organized today’s meeting on the timely theme of United Nations peacekeeping operations. We welcome the participation of the Secretary-General, the Under- Secretaries-General and the leaders of three important United Nations missions. We listened carefull…
I would like to welcome Mr. Kanat Saudabayev, Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Secretary of State and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. We are grateful for his comprehensive statement.
The priorities of the Kazakh chairmanship-in- of…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco, for his briefing on the situation in the region, which contained precise and balanced assessments of recent developments in the Middle East. Priority attention should now, as in the past, be devoted to the issue of relaunching Israeli-Palestini…
The Russian delegation welcomes the participation at today’s Council meeting of Mr. Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia. We are grateful for his assessments, which we share. We also thank Mr. Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, for his introduct…
At the outset, allow me to join in the expressions of solidarity and condolences with respect to the tragedy that has struck Haiti, the people of that country and United Nations personnel there.
We welcome the representatives of a number of leading regional organizations and have carefully listened…
