We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ms. Hanna Tetteh, for her briefing. We listened attentively to the briefing by the Somali Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) con…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of the French-drafted resolution 2808 (2025), on extending the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
This document is the fruit of complicated compromises following days of discussions, and it…
We would like to thank Ms. Barrie Freeman, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, for her briefing on the current situation in the region and the activities of United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) over the past five months. We su…
We would like to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Ms. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. We are grateful for their detailed briefings on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. We have listened attenti…
We would like to thank Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his detailed briefing on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the context of the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
Regrettably, we can only agree with the briefer that…
We are grateful to former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for participating in the open debate. We have listened attentively to the briefing delivered by Ms. Dayal, a representative of academia.
A discussion on leadership for peace cannot be conducted without an analysis of the development of contemp…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his briefing. We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone for his report as the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004), concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We have l…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of the resolution on youth, peace and security introduced by the delegations of Sierra Leone and Guyana (resolution 2807 (2025)). We are grateful to the penholders of the resolution for taking the amendments that we proposed into consideration.
At the same tim…
The Russian Federation supported the United Kingdom’s resolution on sanctions against the Al-Shabaab terrorist group (resolution 2806 (2025)). We note the relevance of the measures therein to counter this terrorist organization, which is trying to expand
For our part, while working on the text, we …
We thank Mr. Abarry, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Africa, for his detailed briefing. We listened carefully to the statement by Christelle Huré. We welcome the participation of the Permanent Representative of Equatorial Guinea in today’s meeting
Russia consistently sup…
We have studied the semi-annual report of the President and Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) on the work of this structure, as well as the report of the Secretary-General on options for transferring the functions of the IRMCT and storing its archives.…
We thank the briefers. We are pleased that regional representatives have also been given the floor in today’s discussion.
The Russian Federation consistently supports the efforts being undertaken by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) as part of its
mandate. We have taken …
Those who follow the Security Council meetings on Ukraine have yet another opportunity today to witness the hypocrisy of our European colleagues in demonstrating their unwavering support for the Kyiv regime. In practice, despite all the efforts by the organizers, today’s meeting serves only to highl…
We did not expect much from today’s intervention by the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Ms. Elina Valtonen. After all, throughout the year, the Finnish chairpersonship has consistently and systemati…
We congratulate you, Madam President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council in December, and we thank the delegation of Sierra Leone for its able stewardship of the Council over the past month.
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mohamed Al Hassan for his…
For a number of years now, there has been a steady downward trend that reflects the fact that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is gradually losing its credibility in the eyes of the international community, which has grown weary of double standards, simulated activity and politically motivated…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on the resolution submitted by France and Greece to extend the inspection regime on the high seas off the coast of Libya (resolution 2804 (2025)).
When this mechanism was initially established by resolution 2292 (2016), it was supposed to serve as an e…
We are grateful to Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.
It has been more than a month since Israel and Hamas reached an agreement to cease hostilities. In this short t…
I would like to thank our Western colleagues very warmly for convening this Security Council briefing on Ukraine. A huge corruption scandal has just erupted there, incriminating top officials of the Kyiv regime. This came as no surprise to us. At almost every meeting, we have told members that they …
We thank the Chairs of the three Security Council Committees for their briefings on the work carried out by the subsidiary bodies under their chairmanship.
We welcome the cooperation between the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning I…
