You will recall, Mr. President, that when we discussed this matter yesterday in the consultations, I proposed that we take a positive view of all requests that we have received for participation in today’s meeting. That was the first proposal, and I would be grateful if we could take a decision on i…
The Russian Federation is one of the main participants in the Bosnian settlement. It deems it important that the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina be further developed on the basis of the scrupulous implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement. This should be the thrust of the activities of th…
We thank Judge Jorda for introducing the report before us.
We welcome the efforts of the judges of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (ICTY) to …
Before we take a decision on the important item that has been before the Security Council for some time now, we should like to ensure that there is complete understanding among Council members on all aspects of the issue, especially given the fact that, as far as we know, there is additional informa…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report and to Mr. Klein for his briefing and thorough assessment of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We note that there have been some important positive changes in that country that give grounds for optimism. The key to the success and irrev…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for his report, and we would like to thank Mr. Kouchner for the briefing he gave us.
On 10 June, one year will have elapsed since the adoption of resolution 1244 (1999). That decision by the Security Council, prepared with the very active participation of Ru…
I wish simply to state that when I asked that we be given a rationale for the existence of the no-fly zones and the use of force there, I requested them of the United Nations Secretariat, not of any national delegation.
I do apologize for asking for the floor again, but I should like to continue this discussion that has developed and which relates to the implementation of Security Council resolutions on Iraq.
Some of my colleagues have just said in response to my statement that their use of force against Iraq — wh…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of the draft resolution, because of the need to continue the United Nations humanitarian programme in Iraq. We consider it important that the resolution establishes the level of appropriations for the rehabilitation of the oil sector in Iraq at $600 million, an…
Like other delegations, we are happy to welcome you, Sir, as President of the Security Council for June, and we wish you every success in discharging the programme before us. We also are grateful to Ambassador Wang Yingfan of China for his able guidance of the Council’s work last month, and we highl…
At the outset, we wish to express our satisfaction that the holding of regular open briefings on East Timor is becoming part of the Security Council’s customary practice. We believe that this is fully justified in the light of the situation in the territory and by the attention being paid to this qu…
The Russian delegation has carefully studied the report of the Security Council mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo that visited the region of this conflict from 4 to 8 May 2000. We join in the positive assessment of the work by members of the mission under the leadership of Ambassador H…
We thank Mr. Ivo Petrov, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Tajikistan and head of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (UNMOT), for participating in today’s meeting and, most important, for the work he and his colleagues are carrying out in Tajikistan.
Today’s meet…
The Russian Federation shares the concern over developments in the situation in Sierra Leone.
The activities of the fighters of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) have brought the peace process in that country to the brink of collapse. Today, when the air is heavy with renewed fighting in Sierra …
I, too, would like first of all to associate myself with the words of gratitude addressed to Ambassador Chowdhury, who so skilfully and steadfastly guided our mission. Like all our colleagues participating in that mission, we concur with the findings in the report and, on the whole, we consider that…
The draft resolution on the organization of the list of speakers and the round tables for the Millennium Summit reflects to a large extent the views expressed by various delegations on procedural matters relating to the Summit.
We would, however, like to be quite clear about a number of provisions …
We are grateful to Mr. Petritsch for his
We feel that the main task in the Bosnian process today is to help make Bosnia and Herzegovina a unified, sustainable State consisting of two equal entities on the basis of full and consistent implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement. We see no alternati…
We are pleased, Mr. Minister, that you are with us once again directing the work of the Security Council. We are also happy to welcome to this Chamber the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Jakob Kellenberger. We thank him for his contribution to the work of the Council t…
Mr. President, I am happy once again to welcome you to this important meeting of the Security Council initiated by the Canadian delegation.
The Russian Federation attaches great importance to the discussion in the Security Council of the entire range of questions relating to the problems of sanctio…
First of all, Mr. President, we would like to associate ourselves with the words of gratitude to you for having organized our discussion of the report of the Independent Inquiry into the actions of the United Nations during the time of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
The Russian delegation has care…
