We are grateful to Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his briefing, which provided us with a sombre picture of the dire humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Israeli measures to permit Gaza to have access to fuel for its power plant are clearly insufficient. Much more needs to be done to avert a ge…
First, I would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. De Mistura, for his briefing on the situation in Iraq and for his presentation of the report on the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). I would also like to express particular grat…
We express our appreciation to the Secretary- General for his reports to the General Assembly on sea issues. The Russian Federation traditionally devotes priority attention to sea issues relating to the rights and obligations of States under the fundamental international legal documents in this area…
We wish to thank Assistant Secretary- General Sach for his briefing, which highlighted various aspects of the workings of the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) and of the International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB), of which he is a member. We believe that the briefing was extremely useful beca…
We, too, are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ould Abdallah, for his detailed briefing and to the Permanent Representative of Somalia for his evaluation.
The Russian Federation is seriously concerned by the development of the situation in Somalia, particularly in…
We are pleased to welcome the Timor-Leste delegation to today’s meeting. We have carefully read its assessment and listened to the ideas put forth by several interested delegations.
The Russian delegation participated actively in the work of the Security Council mission to Timor- Leste that took pl…
Mr. President, allow me to thank the senior officials of both Tribunals for their briefings and for the reports submitted to the Security Council about the status of implementation of the Completion Strategy.
We are also grateful for the interesting proposals contained in the revised document on th…
The Russian delegation supports the statement made by Tajikistan as the president of the Eurasian Economic Community. The 2005 World Summit Outcome consolidated our understanding of the indivisible nature of peace, security and development. The outcome document also asserted that the formation of th…
We also are happy to welcome Mr. Holmes to the Security Council meeting today. We are grateful to him for his briefing thorough, as always, on the results of his trip to Ethiopia, the Sudan, Somalia and Kenya. We see the large amount of work he and the United Nations humanitarian agencies are doing …
I wish to join others in thanking Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for his briefing and for his six- monthly report on the work done by his Office in investigating the situation in Darfur.
The Russian delegation commends the efforts of the Prosecutor’s O…
For decades now, the Arab-Israeli conflict has been a source of constant tension that has brought suffering and deprivation to innocent people and has been a dangerously destabilizing factor in the international situation. The efforts undertaken for a settlement have occasionally produced hopes that…
At the outset, we would like to commend His Excellency Mr. Charles Nqakula and to thank him for his substantive briefing on developments in the Burundi peace process. The Russian Federation believes that the active mediation efforts of the Republic of South Africa in support of peace in Burundi are …
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Jan Eliasson, for the thorough briefing on progress on the political track for a settlement in Darfur. We are also grateful to the Under-Secretary-General, Mr. Guéhenno, for the information on the enhanced efforts by the Secreta…
Our delegation feels that the Kimberley Process has functioned well and has, to date, made substantial progress in achieving its basic purposes, including discharging tasks set for it by decisions of the Security Council and other United Nations bodies. That progress has helped significantly to stre…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for preparing his very thorough report. We share his concern over the high number of refugees and internally displaced persons throughout the world.
According to the report, poor leadership is in evidence in Iraq. Known events in that country have created mo…
Russia attaches great importance to the development of the humanitarian discourse in the United Nations. We call for its further strengthening and enhancement, and for the preservation of the non-politicized nature of the endeavour. We support efforts aimed at establishing an optimal division of lab…
We thank you, Sir, for organizing today’s meeting and express our appreciation to the Chairs of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) and the Committees established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1540 (2004), Ambassadors Verbeke, Arias and Burian, for their reports on the work of the Securi…
We are grateful to Mr. Ibrahim Gambari, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, for his comprehensive briefing on his latest visit to Myanmar. We thank him for his considerable efforts to carry out the good offices mission of the Secretary-General. We view as hopeful the results of the Special Envoy…
Our delegation is pleased to welcome you, Mr. Foreign Minister, to the presidency of the Security Council. Your presence in this Chamber, along with the participation of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and representatives of a broad spectrum of leading regional organizations in this meeting, are convi…
The Russian Federation supports Qatar’s draft resolution entitled “Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies.” We support and actively participate in the intergovernmental process under United Nations auspices, character…
