Recently, the international community has paid increasing attention to the range of problems relating to mine clearance that hamper the socio-economic recovery of conflict-affected countries and efforts to address pressing humanitarian problems in this context.
The dismal statistics on landmines ar…
The Russian delegation notes with satisfaction the
As we have stated on numerous occasions, the Russian Federation had doubts regarding the necessity to extend the mandate of this Mission, and in particular to preserve its military element, and our position in this regard remains unchanged. It is o…
The delegation of the Russian Federation, as a sponsor of the peace process in the Middle East, is honoured, together with the delegations of Norway and the United States of America, to introduce the draft resolution contained in document A/51/L.40.
The main thrust of this draft resolution is to co…
In precisely two weeks, it will be four years since the Security Council — in response to an appeal by the leadership of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia — approved the deployment of the first United Nations peacekeeping operation in history to be preventive in nature. A decision was taken …
The current stage of the United Nations reform efforts started in an atmosphere of high expectations that, unfortunately, have since been justified to only a small degree, if at all. A growing number of pessimistic voices have been heard in this respect.
Our delegation, however, does not share thos…
Our delegation commented in detail on the issues of strengthening the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations during the discussions at the substantive session of the Economic and Social Council last summer. We fully share and support the provisions of Council resolut…
The Russian Federation attaches great importance to the activities of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which was established by a decision of the Security Council. The Tribunal was established because the bitter armed conflict in the region had been accompanied by blatant breach…
The Russian Federation is deeply concerned about the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in eastern Zaire, the great loss of human life and the sudden displacement of nearly 1.5 million Rwandese and Burundian refugees and of tens of thousands of Zairians who have found themselves cut off from external ai…
The issue of the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba has been in the focus of the General Assembly since 1992. Without going into detail, we would like to recall the essence of the Russian position: we cannot, in principle, agr…
The Russian delegation on the whole takes a positive view of the report submitted by the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Mid-term Review of the Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the l990s. In our view, this document objecti…
Today’s discussion confirms, if confirmation were needed, that the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council remains the central issue among all the problems relating to the reorganization of the United
We believe that modest but tangible progres…
The Russian delegation expresses its gratitude to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Hans Blix, for his introduction of the Agency’s annual report, which provides an impressive description of the activities of the IAEA.
The Russian Federation supports in all …
Many diplomats and parliamentarians were witnesses to and participants in the initiatives that have
Allow me to make the following brief comments. First, it has become customary to characterize the post-cold- war period as a movement towards democracy and parliamentarianism. It is precisely in this…
The Russian Federation, together with Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, its partners in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), was the initiator in convening today’s special meeting to consider the situation prevailing in Afghanistan.
The proposal for discussion of this quest…
The Russian delegation attaches great importance to the discussion by the General Assembly of the mid-decade review of progress on the implementation of the decisions of the World Summit for Children. The Summit, held on 29-30 September 1990, was an important landmark for the international community…
On instructions from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Mr. Sergey Lavrov, it is my honour to read out the text of his statement to the General Assembly.
“The Russian delegation is grateful to the Secretary-General for his annual report on the work of the …
I take sincere pleasure in welcoming to the Security Council Chamber the delegation of States members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC): the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and the representative of the Republic of South Africa. Their ac…
Russia reacted with great concern to the bloodshed in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Nablus and Gaza. We have not seen such a dangerous situation since 1982. We must understand something: It would appear that this situation is a direct result not only of reckless activity in respect of the delicate issue of r…
The agenda of the General Assembly at the current session reflects all the complexity of the stage mankind is now going through, the essence of which is the transition from bloc confrontation to multipolarity, economic interdependence and the democratization of international relations.
I would like…
The Russian delegation attaches great significance to this plenary meeting of the General Assembly as it considers the item on a comprehensive test-ban treaty (CTBT). Russia supports the text of the CTBT contained in document A/50/1027, which is the outcome of long and difficult talks in Geneva.
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