We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Mr. Andrew Holness, who spoke on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti, Mr. Jean Victor Généus, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, Rober…
We draw attention to the fact that the United
States voted in favour of the participation of Ukraine in today’s meeting, while it was the United States that was behind the crisis with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), having withdrawn from the deal in 2018 and not yet returned.
We re…
I want to warn members that the question of the participation in this meeting on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) by a State that is neither
a member of the Council nor a party to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is far from being routine, as the presidency is trying to ma…
I have a point of order. But first and foremost, I would like to say that, as announced at the very beginning, time management was to be one of the priorities of the British presidency. For that reason, we should convene our meetings on time. The presidency has time to lobby and discuss its national…
We noted that a number of States used the high rostrum of this forum to artificially link the issue of the responsibility to protect to what is happening in Ukraine, making accusations in that regard against Russia.
The basis for the conduct of our special military operation is Russia’s exercise of…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2690 (2023), prepared by the French delegation, on the withdrawal of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA).
We think it is important that the Council responded unanimously to the request of Mali, w…
I would like to make a few comments in response to some of the talking points made today on the alleged shelling of a pizzeria in Kramatorsk.
The following is a statement from Russia’s Ministry of Defence.
“On 27 June in the city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk People’s Republic, a high-precision st…
At the outset, we would like to thank Mrs. Nakamitsu, Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Bowes for their comprehensive briefings.
To Mr. Radchenko, I would say the following: let us not be hypocritical with regard to the rules-based international order. The rules-based international order is not the United Nat…
We thank Ms. Najat Rochdi, Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, and Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, for their briefings on, and assessments of, the political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
We are conv…
The Russian Federation supported the text submitted by the French delegation, resolution 2688 (2023), on the renewal of the sanctions regime imposed on the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
We would like to reiterate our position. When sanctions fail to respond to the actual situation, impede plans…
We would like to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016), on Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories. We listened very carefully to the briefing by Mr. James Zogby, P…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2687 (2023), prepared by our British colleagues, on the extension of the mandates of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and the United Nations Support Office for Somalia (UNSOS) for six months.
We fully support the work of Af…
At the outset, we would like to thank Mexico for this useful initiative. For the first time in the history of the General Assembly, we have adopted a resolution on mental health protection (resolution 77/300).
Today there is a need to pay particular attention to measures to protect people’s mental …
The responsibility to protect (R2P) is a concept that was developed by Western think tanks to rebrand the well-known "humanitarian intervention" concept under a new veneer and to legitimize interference in the internal affairs of States. When that concept began to be advanced persistently by a group…
We wish to thank the Assistant Secretary- General for Africa, Ms. Martha Pobee. We note the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda.
We wish to begin our statement with an expression of condolences to the Democratic Republ…
Today’s meeting is taking place against a remarkable backdrop. For nearly a month now, goaded by its Western sponsors, to whom Ukraine has to account for the effectiveness of its efforts in using the weapons and ammunition they supply it with, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been conducting a suicid…
We would like first and foremost to thank the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism and Mr. Voronkov himself for the excellent preparations made for the United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member States, as well as for his assistance to delegations in
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We welcome President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s participation in today’s meeting and thank him for his statement to the Council at this critically important time for his country, Somalia. We would like to thank Ms. Catriona Laing, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and Head of …
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee, Mr. Veríssimo, the President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), Mr. Touray, the President of the Economic Community of West African States, and Mr. Abeso, the Executive Secretary of the Gulf of Guinea Comm…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, for her briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. The Russian Federation supports the activities of UNAMA under her leadership within the framew…
