Protecting the health of the population and reducing mortality are among the most important areas of State policy for the Russian Federation. In that context, addressing the global spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which claims the lives of 3 million people every year, is acquiring special significan…
Allow me to thank the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, for his briefing and his seventh report on measures to investigate the situation in Darfur in accordance with resolution 1593 (2005). We commend the efforts of the Office of the Prosecutor to strictly abide by i…
Allow me first of all to thank the leadership of both Tribunals for their briefings and for the reports submitted to the Security Council on the implementation of the completion strategies for the work of those two judicial bodies. Unfortunately, the information to be found in the reports is cause f…
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Holmes for his briefing, which was pertinent to the topic under discussion.
The protection of civilians must be the highest priority for Governments involved in conflicts. We emphasize that all parties to armed conflict bear responsibility for ensuring the…
The Russian delegation participates with interest in today’s discussion, which we believe should bring the international community closer to a common understanding of the concept of human security. This mandate derives from paragraph 143 of the 2005 World Summit Outcome (resolution 60/1), in which w…
The high level of representation at this meeting attests to the importance of the issue of peacebuilding in countries emerging from conflict as well as the importance of formulating practical recommendations on improving the United Nations system’s activities on the ground and coordination between t…
We welcome the participation in this meeting of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Špirić. We are grateful to the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Lajčák, for his report to the Council on developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We note the agr…
The delegation of the Russian Federation regrets Georgia’s decision to submit for the General Assembly’s consideration a draft resolution on the status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, although it does not affect Russian-Georgian relations.
While purporting to ad…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for submitting his report on small arms.
The Russian Federation has consistently supported the strengthening of the United Nations role in coordinating the efforts of the international community to resolve the problem of illicit trafficking in small arms and…
I would like to express our surprise at the fact that in his statement the representative of Costa Rica — which normally has friendly relations with the Russian Federation — distorted the thrust of the discussion held in the framework of the consultations in the Security Council. Our Ambassador put …
We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe for briefing the Council on the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
We listened carefully to the report of the Permanent Representative of the Unites States, Mr. Khalilzad, on the efforts on the multinational f…
We are pleased, Sir, to welcome you and to congratulate you on the Republic of South Africa’s successful presidency of the Security Council. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of leaders of African and European States, other representatives and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Such high i…
I would like to thank Mr. Bellemare for his briefing.
I would like to receive, for the first time, information on a number of elements of the big picture of the investigation of the killing of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafiq Hariri, and the fate of the
former Director General of Genera…
The Russian Federation, along with a number of other countries, has submitted to the sixty-second session of the General Assembly a draft resolution entitled “Improving global road safety” (A/62/L.43). We hope that it will enjoy the Assembly’s support, because the issue of road safety is now more im…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guéhenno for his substantive briefing on the latest developments in Timor-Leste and for introducing the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) (S/2008/26). We also listened very car…
The Russian Federation has supported the Republic of Serbia’s request to convene an emergency Security Council meeting. We fully understand the reaction of President Tadić and the Serbian leadership to the Kosovo developments, and we support Belgrade’s legitimate demands to restore the territorial i…
The international situation is today becoming increasingly characterized by the international community’s growing awareness of the serious challenges posed by global climate change and the need for joint action to address them. Russia has traditionally been an active participant in the international…
We are pleased, Mr. Minister, to see you presiding over the work of the Security Council today. We are grateful to Ms. Coomaraswamy, Ms. Veneman and the representative of civil society for the updated information they provided on the situation with regard to the protection of children in armed confl…
We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Darfur, Mr. Eliasson, and to the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Guéhenno, for their comprehensive briefing on progress on the political track of a settlement in Darfur and the deployment of the African Union-…
We are grateful to the Under-Secretary- General, Mr. Pascoe, for his substantive briefing on the situation in the Middle East. We share the deep concern over developments in and around Gaza. We firmly condemn both rocket firing against towns in southern Israel and the blockade of Gaza that causes th…
