I would like to thank Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen and Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya, for their briefings on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Unfortunately, on top of the many familiar problems that this friendly country is facing, now comes …
We thank you, Mr. President, for presenting the draft oral decision to roll over the consideration of the issue of Security Council reform to the seventy- ninth session of the General Assembly. In our view, it adequately reflects the content of this year’s discussions on reform issues. Two documents…
We would like to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland,
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for the comprehensive overview of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We are also grateful to Dr. Louisa Baxter for her emotional and soberi…
We welcome your personal participation in the Council’s open debate on conflict prevention, Mr. President, and we thank all of today’s briefers for their assessments.
Needless to say, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, conflict prevention is one of the main tasks whereby the Secu…
We would like to thank the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Political Affairs for Libya and Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ms. Stephanie Koury, and the Permanent Representative of Japan, Mr. Kazuyuki Yamazaki, for their briefings.…
We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Hans Grundberg, and the Director of Financing and Partnerships Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Lisa Doughten, for their briefings.
The situation in this Middle Eastern country remai…
We thank Mr. Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, as well as Ms. Edem Wosornu, representative of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Major General Charles Tai Gituai, Interim Chairperson of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commiss…
The Russian Federation joined the consensus on resolution 78/324, “Consideration of decision 14/1 of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, entitled ‘Recommendations regarding the identification of possible gaps in the protection of the human rights of older persons and how best to address them’”. …
The position of the Russian Federation regarding the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction is well known and has not changed. Our country does not intend to part…
We thank Rosemary DiCarlo, Under- Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Lisa Doughten, Director of the Financing and Partnerships Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their comprehensive briefings and their assessments of the situation in …
We thank you, Mr. President, and welcome your personal participation in the Security Council’s discussion today on the question of addressing the historical injustice surrounding the participation of African States in the work of the Council. We listened attentively to the briefings from the Secreta…
We thank Vladimir Voronkov and Natalia Gherman for their briefings on the activities of the Office on Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate in assisting States to combat the
terrorist threat. We greatly appreciate their work in that crucial area and will continue to full…
We would like to thank the Executive Director of UN-Women, Sima Bahous, the Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Pobee, and Ms. Kholood Khair for providing information on and their assessments of the current situation with regard to the implementation of the women and peace and security ag…
We are grateful to Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and Mr. Stephen Omollo, Assistant Executive Director for Workplace and Management of the World Food Programme (WFP), for their briefings.
We agree with some of their …
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2746 (2024), on providing assistance to the forces of the Southern African Development Community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was prepared by the Sierra Leonean and French co-penholders. This important decision was taken as a follow-up to…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate the delegation of Sierra Leone on the assumption of the presidency of the Security Council. We wish you every success, Mr. President, and we express our confidence that you will lead the Council with great professionalism. I also thank the delegations that…
The General Assembly’s consideration of the United Nations Youth Office report (A/78/949) is an excellent opportunity — not just to learn about the activities of this new entity, but also to exchange views about the further development of the youth agenda, in the spirit of intergovernmental cooperat…
The Russian delegation is once again compelled to take steps to prevent certain non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from participating in the work of the General Assembly. That should not be construed as blocking the very useful contribution of such organizations to the work of the United Nations.…
With regard to the resolution 78/319 and decision 78/558, we would like to underscore the following.
The resolution and decision set a dangerous precedent for the future, whereby any process can be forcibly imposed on Member States by force, without a corresponding General Assembly decision. That h…
I shall now make a statement in my capacity as a representative of the Russian Federation.
Russia in its national capacity supported the initiative of Algeria and China to convene today’s meeting, relating to the new and extremely dangerous escalation in the Middle East. We studied the position
of…
