Russia is an active participant in the international climate process. At all of its stages, we have consistently advocated and continue to advocate the consolidation of the efforts of all countries without exception in this area.
In 2003, in Moscow, upon the initiative of President Putin, a world c…
I would like to take this opportunity to share with you the position of the Russian delegation on financing for development and the implementation of the decisions of the International Conference on Financing for Development.
The recent acceleration in the economic development of a large number of …
As have previous speakers, the Russian delegation would first like to thank you, Madam President, for organizing the meeting today to discuss the recommendations of the report of the High-level Panel on United Nations System-wide Coherence (A/61/583) and also to express our appreciation to the Secre…
We too are pleased to welcome Mr. John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. On the occasion of his first meeting with the Security Council we wish him every success in his important post.
As confirmed in Mr. Holmes’ briefing on his trip to the r…
It gives me pleasure, Madam Minister, to welcome you as you preside over the work of the Security Council and to congratulate you on South Africa’s successful presidency of the Council for the month of March, which is culminating in today’s open debate. My delegation also welcomes the Minister for F…
Russia voted in favour of the draft resolution submitted to the Security Council. The text was the outcome of the collective efforts of all the members of the Security Council and the concrete result of intensive consultations and complicated compromises. We are pleased to note that the intensive pr…
We are pleased to welcome the Foreign Minister of Italy, Mr. Massimo D’Alema. We thank Special Representative Koenigs for his detailed briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and for presenting the new report of the Secretary-General.
We are also grateful to Under-Secretary-General Costa for his b…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Mr. Qazi, for his briefing, and for having presented the report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). He has given us an objective picture of the extremely…
The Russian Federation expresses its gratitude to Mr. Ibrahima Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, for his substantive briefing. Progress in the peace process in the Great Lakes region would not have been possible without the active involvement of the Of…
At the outset, allow me to congratulate you, Sir, on Slovakia’s very successful presidency of the Security Council this month. We only regret the fact that this is a very short month, which represents a failure on the part of the calendar and not of your presidency.
As the initiator and a sponsor o…
We are grateful to Mr. Alvaro de Soto, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, for his briefing on the situation with regard to the Middle East settlement process. Russia has been working consistently to bring about stability and lasting peace in the region, and that is a focus of the curr…
My delegation is grateful to you, Mr. President, and to other colleagues for the kind words addressed to Ambassador Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, and to the Russian delegation on its presidency of the Security Council in January. We would also like to wish you success,…
The establishment of the Peacebuilding Commission through parallel General Assembly and Security Council resolutions adopted in 2005 was one of the important and tangible achievements of Member States in reforming the United Nations. Experience shows that lasting peace and the effective settlement o…
The Second World War ended over 60 years ago, but the memory of the monstrous crimes of Nazism lives on. If we are to eliminate any possibility of a future recurrence, we simply have no right to forget the tragedy of the Holocaust. No one can remain indifferent to anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racia…
The Russian Federation will support the draft resolution before us relating to Iran’s nuclear programme. We will do so because we believe that the draft, the outcome of lengthy and complex consultations, focuses on the affirmation of measures that Iran must take in order to produce confidence in its…
The Russian delegation would like to state the following with regard to the General Assembly’s adoption of resolution 61/244, entitled “Human resources management”.
We believe that the General Assembly has been able to agree on a generally balanced resolution that takes a constructive approach to r…
We are grateful to the President of the Security Council for organizing this important event. We would also like to thank Mr. Ibrahima Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, and Ambassador Liberata Mulamula for their detailed briefings on the subject under …
Mr. President, allow me to thank the leadership of both Tribunals for their briefings to the Security Council and for the reports on implementing the completion strategy, pursuant to Council resolution 1534 (2004).
We commend, in general, the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (…
The Russian delegation would like to make a short statement in explanation of vote after the voting to set forth our understanding of the term “gender- based violence”, which is referred in the draft resolution that was adopted yesterday, contained in document A/61/L.46, entitled “Strengthening of t…
We welcome the participation at today’s meeting of the Security Council of Ms. Raskovic-Ivic, President of the Coordination Centre of the Republic of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija, and thank her for her substantive statement.
We listened carefully to the statement made by Mr. Rücker, head of the U…
