I have been informed that the representative of Georgia used this debate on the important and complex topic of the responsibility to protect to make blatantly anti-Russian comments. I believe that, since he went so far as to exploit this debate to speak about the tragic events of August 2008, he mig…
I would like to thank the Secretary-General for his contribution to the consideration of the conceptual basis of the responsibility of States to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, and for his report on this subject, entitled “Implementi…
We too would like to thank Mr. Angelo, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing and for introducing the report on the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) (S/2009/359).
Unfortunately, the security situation remains complex. Activities b…
First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Fernandez-Taranco for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East and to welcome him to the Security Council.
Since the Security Council’s previous discussions on the Middle East, the situation in the region has remained at the centre of the internationa…
At the outset, I should like to thank Mr. Alain le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his detailed briefing on the situation in Darfur and the deployment of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).
The Secretary-General has repeatedly focused …
We are pleased to see you, Mr. Minister, presiding over the Security Council. We thank the Secretary-General for preparing and presenting his report on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict (S/2009/304), a document richly deserving of the most careful analysis and consideration.
We s…
On behalf of the delegation of the Russian Federation, I should like to thank the leadership of the Special Court for today’s briefings and to note the considerable contributions made by that institution to the fight against impunity. We also welcome the presence of the representative of Sierra Leon…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his substantive briefing on his recent trip. We listened closely to the statement by the Permanent Representative of Myanmar.
In our view, the Secretary-General’s visit was timely and necessary. The programme of work was extremely full: the Secretary-Gen…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe and Under-Secretary-General Malcorra for their briefings on the situation in Somalia.
That situation continues to be unstable. The recent increase in bloodshed in Mogadishu and the continued attacks by radical Islamists against the Somali army and police forc…
I hope that you, Mr. President, will allow me to begin my statement not by exclusively addressing
the important Afghan issue. I would like to join my colleagues in expressing our gratitude to you not only for convening today’s meeting, but also, above all, for your eminently effective and productiv…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, and to the Turkish delegation for organizing today’s meeting on the topical issue of peacekeeping operations. We have listened with great interest to the statements by Under-Secretaries-General Le Roy and Ms. Malcorra.
The increase in the number of peacekeepin…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for the report (S/2009/277) and to Mr. Holmes for the updated information on the issue of the protection of civilians in armed conflict.
The Council has now been considering the topic for 10 years. In that time, we have managed to make considerable progress …
We are pleased to welcome you as President of the Council.
At the outset, I should like to thank Mr. De Mistura of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) for his briefing on the situation in Iraq. We should also like to expression our appreciation of his work in leading UNAMI and to…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, Mr. Zannier, for presenting the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (S/2009/300). The Russian side has carefully analyzed that document.
We welcome the particip…
Although the last few years have been remarkable for the significant progress made in fighting epidemics, HIV/AIDS remains one of the most serious challenges of modern times. Constant vigilance in taking effective measures against it, strengthening national public health and social systems and relia…
I must draw attention to a procedural flaw in today’s meeting, which of course has a serious political subtext and is one of the reasons that we are today seeing the end of the work of the United Nations Mission in the Abkhaz-Russian border region.
We have been very patient for many years now altho…
We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Japan, Ambassador Takasu, for the regular quarterly briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) and for the work that he has carried out at the head of that Committee. We note that in the rep…
The members of the Security Council will recall that, when we received the report of the Secretary-General in May, the Russian delegation expressed its willingness to work constructively with partners on agreeing to a substantive draft resolution of the Council on the future mandate of a United Nati…
The Russian delegation welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 1874 (2009), which condemns the nuclear test undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and, in that regard, introduces additional restrictive measures with regard to North Korea.
The resolution adopted is, on the one…
We too welcome Mrs. Zainab Hawa Bangura, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sierra Leone. We listened very carefully to her assessment of the situation in her country. We are grateful also to Mr. Michael von der Schulenburg, Executive Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing on the act…
