Given that a number of delegations have mentioned the situation in Ukraine today, I should like to say the following.
The root causes of the situation date back at least to 2014, when the West, following a bloody, unconstitutional coup d’état, brought to power in Kyiv avowed nationalists who immedi…
The position of the Russian Federation on the so-called International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 remains unchange…
We do not intend to transform today’s meeting into a dialogue between Russia and the United States, but I would like to say a few things.
First of all, I want to thank the representative of the United States for acknowledging just now — contrary to what he said in his official statement — that it …
We thank High Representative Nakamitsu for her briefing.
Today we have heard a number of critical remarks directed at our country. We are not surprised by the overall logic expressed by our former Western partners, which is that Russia is to blame for all of the ills of today’s world. However, sinc…
We welcome the personal participation of President Nyusi in today’s meeting and thank the briefers for their statements. We are grateful to the Mozambican presidency for the choice of today’s topic. We have often stressed the importance of considering the influence of the whole range of socioeconomi…
The Russian Federation has consistently been in favour of resolving the global problem of climate change. We assume that the work of the primary judicial body of the United Nations will be carried out in strict compliance with its mandate. In particular, we expect that the International Court of Jus…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bintou Keita for her briefing. We also welcome the presence at this meeting of the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. We are grateful to our colleagues, the Permanent Representatives of Gabon…
The Russian Federation notes the diplomatic efforts of Botswana as the Chair of the Kimberley Process in 2022 and also as the author of the initial version of draft resolution A/77/L.61 on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict. We support its adoption by consensus; at the same time, we cannot he…
We are pleased to be welcoming you as you preside over our meeting today, Mr. President. I would like to thank the Secretary-General and President Assoumani for their briefings. We also thank Mozambique for organizing today’s debate on the pressing problem of combating terrorism and extremism, with …
I did not ask the representative of the United States about the article by Mr. Hersh, which he did not even read. I do really recommend that he read it. But I did ask him a direct question: how does he understand the words of his own President, who himself openly said: “we will destroy Nord Stream”?…
I have a question for my colleague from the United States. I would like to say that before the recent revelations by Mr. Seymour Hersh, I do not recall Russian officials specifically naming the United States as the perpetrator of that tragedy. The discussions of the matter emerged only after the pub…
I believe that, after today’s vote, suspicion regarding who is behind the act of sabotage at the Nord Stream pipeline only grows. I would like to remind the Council of some basic facts.
In the eyes of the whole world, the United States and its allies have done everything in their power to ensure th…
Today we are to vote on a draft resolution (S/2023/212) to establish, under the auspices of the Secretary-General, an international investigation into the act of sabotage against the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea in September 2022. The draft resolution is proposed by the Russian Federat…
I would like to thank the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), Mr. Hernán Pérez Loose, for his substantial briefing on the work of this subsidiary body of the Security Council and on the Committee’s plans for the future. In that regard, we are pleas…
Russia voted in favour of resolution 2680 (2023), which extends the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006), concerning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. But at the same time, we find it regrettable that the United States penholder did…
We thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and Acting Director Talahma for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
We have consistently supported the Special Envoy’s mediation efforts to promote a Syrian-led and Syrian- owned settlement that is based on resolution 2254 (2015…
We 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 territory. We listened with concern to Mr. Wennesland’s assessments regarding the continued…
It was also interesting for me to listen to the views set out by the representative of the United States of America about Washington and its allies allegedly not nurturing any hostile plans directed against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Exercises are allegedly being carried out routinel…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Jenča for his briefing.
Our position is well known: Russia opposes any military activity that threatens the security of the Korean peninsula and the countries of North-East Asia. We continue to expect that the current trend towards escalation will be replaced by…
Thanks to our former Western partners’ shameful and cowardly action preventing a briefer from Donbas from speaking, today the Council will have to listen to a statement by us that will be longer than usual.
Our discussions at the Security Council on the humanitarian aspects of the Ukrainian crisis …
