The Russian delegation is pleased to welcome to this Chamber the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Adnan Terzic, and to thank him for enunciating the position of the Bosnian Government.
We thank the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Schwarz-Schill…
The situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is a cause for great concern. There have been recent incidents of Palestinian extremists firing rockets into the territory of Israel from the Gaza Strip and response attacks by the Israel Defense Forces. Innocent people have become the victim of …
We did not object to the extension of the mandate of the ad litem Judge, Judge Joaquín Martín Canivell. We therefore supported the draft resolution, since such a decision is in keeping with the completion strategy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
At the same time, w…
We thank Mr. Kalomoh for his comprehensive briefing.
Today’s meeting is taking place against the backdrop of important events in the Middle East region. I am thinking in particular of the outcome of the elections in Israel and the completion of the efforts to form a new Palestinian Government.
In …
I am pleased to see you, Mr. Minister, presiding over the Security Council. I welcome the presence of the President-elect of Haiti, Mr. Préval. I congratulate him on his electoral victory and wish him every success in his efforts to improve the lives of all Haitians. We also welcome other participan…
We thank you, Sir, for convening this important meeting and the Secretary-General for his report on small arms.
We note the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru, Mr. Oscar
Maúrtua, and thank the Officer-in-Charge of the Department for Disarmament Affairs for…
At the outset, I wish to welcome President
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first woman in Liberia to assume such a senior post following free and democratic elections.
The Government of National Unity has achieved truly significant success in strengthening the country’s unity and overcoming the consequ…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of draft resolution A/60/L.48. We believe that the draft resolution, although far from perfect, is the outcome of an extremely difficult search for compromise, which is necessary to ensure that we establish the basis for qualitative improvement in the Organizat…
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), namely, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan.
We express our appreciation to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Tom Koenigs for th…
The Russian Federation attaches great significance to upholding high moral and ethical standards of conduct for all categories of United Nations peacekeeping personnel. This matter deserves ongoing attention by the Organization and its Member States. Today, when peacekeeping activities are increasin…
Mr. President, may I first of all extend my thanks to the Secretariat for the report that has been introduced to us by Mr. Mark Malloch Brown.
The Russian Federation attaches great importance to reform of the procurement system in the United Nations, fully in accordance with the resolutions adopted…
I would like first of all to express my gratitude to you, Mr. President, for having convened today’s meeting. I would also like to thank Ambassador Løj, Ambassador Mayoral and Ambassador Burian for their briefings on the activities of the Committees that they head.
The Russian Federation fully supp…
My delegation welcomes the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Tadic, President of the Republic of Serbia, and of Mr. Jessen-Petersen, Head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, as well as the delegation accompanying him. We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report (S/2006/45) on …
I wish first of all to welcome you, Madam Minister, and to thank you for presiding over the Security Council at this meeting. I wish also to welcome Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Council members and States of the Great Lakes region who have come to New York to consider the question of strengtheni…
The Russian Federation supports the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as the lead international agency providing international protection to refugees.
We believe that this meeting of the Security Council, initiated by the Tanzanian presidency, is extremel…
I should like, first of all, to express condolences to the people and the Government of Guatemala in the light of the report, which we received this morning, about the deaths of Guatemalan peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That tragic event reaffirms that we need to help
countri…
We are pleased to welcome here the Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium, Mr. De Gucht, and we should like to thank him for his briefing.
On the whole, we agree with the approach taken by the Belgian chairman…
From the very outset of the negotiations, the Russian delegation consistently advocated the adoption of a full-fledged United Nations budget for the next biennium. The adoption of a 2006-2007 budget will contribute to the Organization’s efforts to implement the extremely important reforms — includin…
The Russian Federation attaches great importance to this High-level Dialogue. We feel that the consideration of international migration as a development factor is both topical and timely.
According to the United Nations, Russia today occupies the second place in the world among
countries with the …
On behalf of the Russian Federation, which this year chaired the Kimberley Process, and also on behalf of a number of other sponsors, it is my honour to introduce draft resolution A/60/L.42, entitled “The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict: breaking the link between the illicit transaction of rou…
