It was just yesterday (see S/PV.9523) that we met in this Chamber, at the insistence of representatives of the Kyiv regime and their sponsors, who tried to pass off the consequences of the unprofessional work of Ukrainian air defence forces as deliberate strikes by Russian aerospace forces against r…
We are not in the least surprised by the rushed decision of Zelenskyy’s regime and its Western backers to request today’s meeting. Many experts predicted that, in suffering defeat on the front line and rapidly losing support even in the West, the Kyiv clique would use any pretext to draw the attenti…
We thank the United Arab Emirates for convening this meeting. We also thank our briefers — Mr. Khaled Khiari, Mr. Marwan Muasher and Mr. Itay Epshtain — for their interesting and valuable briefings.
We are following with concern the situation in the West Bank, which continues to be very tense and …
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2721 (2023), on the independent assessment report on Afghanistan (see S/2023/856). We are grateful to the United Arab Emirates and Japan, as co-penholders on the Afghan file, for their efforts in preparing the resolution. We greatly apprec…
Earlier when I introduced our oral amendment, I said that the vote on it would be a moment of truth, and so it was. The United States once again showed its true colours in front of the entire world, blocking an extremely weak call on the part of the Council for a cessation of hostilities in Gaza. In…
Given that this is the last Security Council meeting in December — with the exception of the upcoming vote today — I would like to pay tribute to the efforts of the Ecuadorian presidency which, despite the extremely turbulent situation in the Council, has been able to decisively carry out its funct…
In the past few days, the Security Council, and with it the entire world, has witnessed the latest — and I am not afraid to use these words — shameful, cynical and irresponsible conduct by the United States, which is trying to avoid responsibility for the further use of the veto, resorting to all so…
The Russian Federation supported the framework draft resolution (resolution 2719 (2023)) submitted by our colleagues the three African members of the Security Council — Ghana, Gabon and Mozambique — on financing African Union-led peacekeeping operations. We are consistent in our support for the in…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Geir Pedersen, and the Director for the Humanitarian Financing and Resource Mobilization Division in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Ms. Doughten, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian sit…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ms. Otunbayeva, and the Director for Coordination of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Ramesh Rajasingham, fo…
The Russian delegation wishes to say that it disassociates itself from the consensus on a number of paragraphs in resolution 78/229 on strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity. I am referring to the fifty-seven…
We would like to reiterate our position on the country-specific draft resolutions submitted at this meeting. Russia does not support the practice of considering selective and unilateral draft resolutions on human rights situations in individual countries. Such draft resolutions have little to do wit…
In 1945, the member States of the coalition against Hitler, known as the United Nations, won a historic victory over Nazism. The contemporary system of the promotion and protection of human rights was the response of States to Nazi-perpetrated genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The de…
I would like to say that the Security Council’s main objective is resolving problems and threats to international peace and security, including on the Korean peninsula. Simply raising these problems in the Security Council is not enough. We call on the United States to change its approach and to tru…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari for his briefing. We welcome the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea to this meeting.
Russia is following with concern the new round of escalation on the Korean peninsula. We are particul…
We would like to thank Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland and Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, Major General Gauchat, for their assessments of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, where for tw…
Considering the importance of resolving the global drug problem and certain aspects thereof, including synthetics, our delegation decided to join in the adoption of resolution 78/131 as a whole, as amended, despite the changes introduced to the eighth preambular paragraph by Mexico. Our position on …
The Russian Federation regrets that the delegation of Mexico decided to propose an amendment to draft resolution A/78/L.24, entitled “Enhancing action at the national, regional and international levels to address the global public health and security challenges posed by synthetic drugs”. Draft amend…
We thank the delegations of Pakistan and the Philippines for preparing resolution 78/129 on the important issue of promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation for peace.
The Russian Federation, as a multi-ethnic and multiconfessional State, attaches paramount …
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Mr. Bathily, and the Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan, who spoke in his capacity as representative of the Chair of the Committee established pursuant …
