Today our Western colleagues dealt yet another heavy blow to the reputation of the Security Council, which, according to its mandate, bears the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. Yes, any Council member has the right to request a meeting on any issue, but that i…
To begin with a different aspect of the issue, in seeking to justify their attempt to undermine the mandate of the Security Council, our Western colleagues have predictably alleged that Russia has raised in the Security Council the human rights situation in a given area or region. I will come back t…
Today the international community is once again witnessing a shameful situation in which a small group of States is trying to use the Security Council as a tool to promote its own geopolitical agenda. We have never had any illusions about the fact that since all of Pyongyang’s main opponents are mem…
We would like to thank the President and Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) for their briefings.
We studied closely the fifth review and the most recent progress report on the activities of the Mechanism. They are lengthy documents, but they
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As several other delegations on the Security Council have done, Russia has repeatedly emphasized that it is more than sufficient to review the Syrian chemical file once a quarter. However, as today’s briefing by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, has shown, even t…
Russia abstained in the voting on the Security Council resolution submitted by the United States endorsing the mediators’ proposal on a ceasefire in Gaza (resolution 2735 (2024)).
From the very beginning of the escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, we have consistently and unwaveringly ad…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Abdou Abarry, and the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), Mr. Gilberto da Piedade Veríssimo, for their briefings.
The countries of Central Africa continue to face com…
Russia abstained in the voting on the Security Council resolution renewing, for three years, the mandates of the Monitoring Team on sanctions against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al-Qaida, as well as the Ombudsperson on delisting (resolution 2734 (2024)).
We have consistently…
I wish to take this opportunity to respond to the representative of the United States. Yes, indeed we have no opportunity to impose sanctions or to threaten with sanctions international officials if they attempt to accuse us of something, but that is something that the United States of America has b…
It has long been a secret to no one that Western delegations have been convening Security Council meetings on Ukraine as a box-ticking exercise on their monthly schedule and determining the roles that each of them will play in advance. There can be no doubt that in reality they could not care less a…
Let me start by thanking the Republic of Mozambique for its successful stewardship of the Security Council in May and by welcoming the Republic of Korea as this month’s President of the Council. We also welcome the representative of Iraq to today’s meeting. We welcome Ms. Peyró Llopis as Head of the…
We wish to thank the coordinators of negotiations on draft resolution A/78/L.68, on countering narcotics in Central Asia — namely, the representatives of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. We thank them for their efforts to seek and find mutually acceptable compromises …
The Russian Federation, as in previous years, will vote against this year’s draft resolution, A/78/L.74, which has been submitted by the Georgian delegation. We note that the draft resolution was submitted
immediately following the attack by the Saakashvili regime on South Ossetia. The purpose of t…
I would like to begin by reiterating what I already said in my earlier statement, namely, that the cooperation between Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is exclusively constructive and lawful. It does not threaten or violate anyone, and it will continue. I would also like to refut…
We listened carefully to the briefing by Assistant Secretary-General Khiari. We welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in this meeting.
We regret that once again there was no place in today’s meeting for a comprehensive analysis of the…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on the resolution prepared by France and Malta on the exten sion of the special inspection regime on the high seas off the coast of Libya in order to implement the arms embar go (resolution 2733 (2024)). We would like to remind the Council once again …
The Russian Federation voted in favour of the resolution (resolution 2732 (2024)) on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). What is most important for us is that the United States penholders on this issue took into account the priorities expressed by …
It would be disrespectful to leave a question posed directly by the Permanent Representative of the United States unanswered. I will not comment on the remark about throwing stones in glass houses and will instead focus on today’s agenda.
Our country is actively working to rebuild Syria, whose dest…
We thank Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for his briefing.
Assisting refugees and addressing their problems is particularly relevant in the context of an unprecedented global humanitarian crisis. Last year, a series of endless armed conflicts, internal political d…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on the resolution prepared by the United States on the extension of the sanctions regime against South Sudan (resolution 2731 (2024)). We believe that the sanctions relief provided for in the document is insufficient. We regret that the American authors…
