We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Valentine Rugwabiza, UN- Women Executive Director Sima Bahous and African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye for their briefings. We listened attentively to the statement made by Mr. Rhosyns Ngatondang.…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, and the interim Chairperson of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, Mr. Charles Tai Gituai, for their briefings. We are also grateful to Mr. Marco Impagliazzo, President of the Community of Sa…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, and the Permanent Representative of Japan, Mr. Kimihiro Ishikane, for their statements. We also listened closely to Ms. Abeir Imneina.
The …
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General El-Ghassim Wane for his briefing, and we welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Abdoulaye Diop, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali.
The situation in Mali remains complicated, to say the least. The …
We are grateful to the United Arab Emirates for having organized a meeting on such an important topic as the values of human fraternity in promoting and sustaining peace. We thank Secretary-General Guterres, Grand Imam Al-Tayeb, Archbishop Gallagher and Ms. Ibn Ziaten for their comprehensive briefin…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Lacroix, President Santos Calderón and Ms. Kadry for their state ments. We thank the United Arab Emirates for its assidu ous preparatory work in the lead-up to the twenty-eighth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on …
Today’s meeting is devoted to one of the most important foci of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the sphere of health care: combating HIV/AIDS. The Russian Federations pays unflagging attention to this issue at the national and international levels and has always supported a global dia…
We have carefully reviewed the reports of the President and the Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism on the activities of that body over the past six months.
The situation of the Residual Mechanism is still best described by the Russian proverb: “Nothing is more permanent than a tempo…
We welcome your participation, Sir, in today’s meeting in your capacity as President of the Security Council.
We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit, sharing for their assessments and considerations. We also thank Ms. O…
For yet another year in a row, this draft resolution (A/77/L.73) has been introduced before the General Assembly. Its sponsors have consistently said that they are driven by their concern for the needs of those who have lost their livelihoods and have been displaced by armed hostilities. It must be …
The Russian Federation attaches great importance to the issue of bringing terrorists to account for the atrocities they have committed. This is an integral and important part of the fight against terrorism as a phenomenon. In that regard, we are closely monitoring the activities of the United Nation…
On the night of 6 June, the Kyiv regime committed the unthinkable crime of breaching the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, which resulted in the uncontrolled release of water downstream on the Dnipro River. Settlements have been flooded. Thousands of people are in need of evacuation, wh…
We thank Mr. Abdou Abarry, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Da Piedade Veríssimo, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of Central African States, and Ms. Marie Tamoifo for their detailed briefings.
Russia has always supported the work of the United Nations O…
We listened to the statement by Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, and we are surprised that neither today nor in the statement made by the Secretary-General related to the launch did we hear a single word about the fact that the growing military activity by the United States, the Republic of Korea and Japan in …
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2685 (2023) on a six-month technical rollover of the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS) prepared by the United Kingdom.
The situation in the Sudan remains worrisome. On 15 April, the conf…
I would like to begin my statement by congratulating the delegation of the United Arab Emirates on beginning their presidency of the Security Council. We would like to thank the delegation of
Switzerland for their able leadership of the Council last month.
Just as it did last year, the Russian Fed…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2683 (2023), prepared by the United States, on the extension of the sanctions regime against South Sudan. We believe that the easing of the sanctions that it provides for is insufficient. We regret that the United States penholders were so…
We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen, Deputy Director Ghada Mudawi and Ms. Morgane Aveline for their briefings.
The increasing restoration of Damascus’s ties with its regional environment is of key importance to the political settlement process in Syria. We welcome the decision taken on 7 May by th…
We thank Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for his briefing.
Ensuring the nuclear and physical safety of nuclear facilities has always been and always will be an unequivocal priority for our country. From the very beginning, with the support of the Ag…
At the outset, I would like to wish all of our African colleagues a happy Africa Day. On this day, exactly 60 years ago in Addis Ababa, the first conference of independent African States was held and laid the foundations for the creation of the Organization of African Unity, the work of which the Af…
