We thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, and Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, Director of Coordination of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their overview of the political and humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
The Russian Federation has consiste…
I would first like to thank the Chinese delegation for its words of sympathy and its condolences regarding the heinous terrorist attack in Dagestan.
We thank Under-Secretary-General DiCarlo and Ambassador Vanessa Frazier, Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) and Permanent Re…
Regarding our understanding of the procedure, Mr. President, we were under the impression that we could exercise our right of reply earlier, but now we will indeed do so.
We regret that the Ukrainian delegation has once again exploited this unifying agenda item for political purposes and in order t…
We thank Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. James Swan, and the Head of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), Mr. Mohamed El-Amine Souef, for their briefings. We welcome the Permanent Representative of Somalia, Mr. Abukar Dahir Osman, to this meeting. We w…
We would like to thank Morocco, the coordinator of the negotiation process towards reaching an agreement on draft resolution A/78/L.78 on improving global road safety, for its work.
Despite the noteworthy progress in the area of road safety, achieving road safety remains a priority in the modern wo…
We thank Ms. Otunbayeva, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAMA) in Afghanistan, for her assessment of the situation in the country. Russia supports UNAMA’s activities under her leadership in the framework of the Mission’s mandated ta…
We are glad to see you, Mr. President, presiding over the Security Council. We thank the Secretary-General for his briefing. We also listened carefully to the briefers.
Russia was present at the start of discussions of issues of international information security at the United Nations. In 1998, 26 …
We welcome the commitment to the global fight against HIV/AIDS. We believe firmly that only consolidated efforts by the international community aimed at countering the spread of that infectious disease will make it possible to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030.
The Russian Federation continues to a…
I would like to respond to the representative of the United States, who once again tried to speculate about Russia’s alleged violations of the sanctions regime against Libya. Let me remind the Council that in their traditionally friendly cooperation, Libya and Russia have always abided by all the re…
We thank Ms. Stephanie Koury, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Acting Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), for her briefing. We thank Ambassador Yamazaki, Permanent Representative of Japan, for his stewardship of the Commit…
At the outset, allow me to put on record our fundamental disagreement — which we have already expressed on numerous occasions — with the invitation to today’s meeting of eight representatives under rules 37 and 39. That number clearly does not correspond to the stated format of the discussion, as i…
We are grateful to the Assistant Secretary- General, Ms. Martha Pobee, and the Director of Operations and Advocacy at the Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Ms. Edem Wosornu, for their assessments of the current situation in the Sudan, in connection with the implementation …
We listened with interest to Ms. Nderitu’s informative briefing.
Exactly one year ago, the Security Council adopted resolution 2686 (2023), and we thank the United Arab Emirates for that useful initiative, which we fully support. The resolution drew the attention of the Security Council for the fir…
We convened today’s meeting because the situation regarding Ukraine is developing into an increasingly dangerous scenario. Western countries are aiming for another round of escalation, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences. To give some context, I would like to start with several quotes fr…
The Russian Federation supports the participation of a large number of interested parties the work of the International Conference on Financing for Development. However, in our view, the participation of politicized non-governmental organizations is destructive. In that regard, we would like to plac…
We have repeatedly pointed out the contradictory nature of the wording related to the participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in United Nations international conferences. Today we have before us further evidence of that ineffective approach, which is rubber-stamped for an ever-growing…
Russia aligns itself with the statement delivered by Mr. Yvan Gil Pinto, Venezuela’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations, and we support the appeals he made. We would like to add some remarks in our national capacity.
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We are grateful to Mr. Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, and Director Wosornu of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in the country.
The situation in and around Yemen is not conducive…
Russia abstained in the voting on the resolution prepared by the United Kingdom on the situation in El Fasher in the Sudan (resolution 2736 (2024)).
Although the British authors made certain efforts to work on the text, especially in terms of moving commas at the final stage, it was simply impossib…
We thank you, Mr. President, for your wise coordination of the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan.
During the 90-day reporting period, the membership of the Panel of Experts of that subsidiary body was renewed. We welcome its n…
