We thank Mr. Huang Xia, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, and Mr. João Samuel Caholo, Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), for their briefings. We have also listened carefully to Ms. Joséphine Malimukono.
The situati…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, and the Permanent Representative of Japan, Mr. Kimihiro Ishikane, for their briefings.
First and foremost, I would like to express my sinc…
We regret that the Security Council has once again been held hostage to the selfish aspirations of the bloc of Western delegations. That is the only reason that it has been unable to send a clear, strong and unified message aimed at de-escalation. We are talking about the largest outbreak of violenc…
Let me start by saying that the reports of the Secretariat that we are discussing today continue, like
some media, to contain value judgments imputing to our country responsibility for the ongoing crises in the world economy and in Africa. We see no exception to that in the two reports of the Secre…
From the very beginning, Russia has been calling on the Security Council to respond to the unprecedented exacerbation of the current crisis. Unfortunately, for five days, there has been no movement in that direction.
We underscore once again that we condemn what happened on 7 October and the deaths…
First and foremost, we would like to thank Mr. Ebo and Mr. Nixon for their substantive briefings.
With astonishing tenacity, which deserves better use, our Western colleagues convene meetings every month on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, hypocritically calling for a swift cessation of hosti…
We wish to thank Mr. Parfait Onanga- Anyanga, Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (AU), Ms. Fatima Kyari Mohammed, Permanent Observer of the AU to the United Nations, and the civil society representative for their briefings.
We…
We welcome the participation in today’s discussion of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Mr. Álvaro Leyva Durán. We thank the briefers for their briefings.
The 2016 Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace is approaching its seventh anniversary, nea…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her briefing on the situation in Iraq and confirm our unwavering support for the work of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). We listened carefully to civil society repr…
I would like to start by once again expressing my bewilderment at the presence at our meeting as speakers not only of the representative of the European Union (EU), but also the representatives of Czechia, Romania, Poland and Latvia. I would also like to ask a question. What added value will we obta…
The Russian Federation will join the consensus on the three political declarations on health (draft resolutions A/78/L.2, A/78/L.3 and A/78/L.4).
I would like to acknowledge the efforts of the coordinators of the consultations on universal health coverage, the Permanent Representatives of Guyana an…
The Russian Federation does not object to restoring the vote to the Comoros, Somalia and Sao Tome and Principe.
At the same time, Russia would like to disassociate itself from paragraphs 108, 113 and 122 of the report of the Committee on Contributions (A/78/11), in which the war in Ukraine is menti…
At the outset, we congratulate Brazil on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for October and hope it will be a successful one. We welcome the presence at today’s meeting of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti.
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2699 (2023…
We align ourselves with the statement made on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations.
The language in the outcome document (draft resolution A/78/.L.1), especially its evaluative and operative parts, contains important elements for the future of a multipolar …
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2698 (2023), prepared by France and Malta, which gives the European Union (EU) a mandate to conduct the European Union Naval Force Mediterranean Operation IRINI to counter the smuggling of migrants and human trafficking.
Yesterday’s brief…
We thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and the Permanent Representative of Gabon, in his capacity as Chair of the of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for their briefings…
We thank the representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in New York and the International Organization for Migration for their assessments of the situation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea in search of refuge.…
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on Israel’s settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories in the context of the twenty-seventh report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
We liste…
We thank Special Envoy of the Secretary- General Geir Pedersen and Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings, and we listened attentively to the statement delivered by Ms. Jarbawi.
We remain convinced that t…
We thank Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for her assessments of the situation in the country. The Russian Federation supports the activities of UNAMA under her leadership within the framewo…
