Our delegation has made the difficult
decision to support the adoption of resolution 2672 (2023), which extends until 10 July this year the United Nations mandate for the use of the Bab Al-Hawa crossing, through which humanitarian aid is delivered from Türkiye to the terrorist-infested Syrian encla…
We support the convening by the delegations of China and the United Arab Emirates of today’s Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. We are grateful to Assistant Secretary-General Khiari for his briefing on the alarming developments in the Ol…
We congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council. We also welcome the other new non-permanent members of the Council — Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland and Ecuador. We wish them every success and productive work.
It is a shame that we are starting the new workin…
We asked for the floor yet again because we were surprised by the statement made by our American colleague when he said that Russia suspended the deliberations of the Constitutional Committee on the basis of arbitrary demands on unrelated issues. I want to underscore that we had serious reasons for …
Russia abstained in the voting on the resolution on Myanmar (resolution 2669 (2022)). It is our principled position that the situation in Myanmar does not pose a threat to international peace and security. This conclusion follows from the contents of the resolution itself, which is mostly focused on…
We thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Special Representative Helen La Lime for their briefings. We also thank American journalist and editor of Haiti Liberté, Mr. Kim Ives, for his fascinating and open-minded insight into the situation in the country. We believe it very useful to invi…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2668 (2022), submitted by Mexico, on the mental health of peacekeepers and the personnel of peacekeeping operations and special political missions. However, we would like to make a statement pertaining to this resolution. We cannot agree with what was done…
We would like to thank Geir Pedersen and Martin Griffiths for the overview on the political and humanitarian situation in Syria.
The Russian Federation’s unchanging position is that there is no alternative to a Syrian-owned and Syrian-led political process carried out under the United Nations media…
The Russian Federation requested a vote on draft resolution A/77/L.41, as no extensive discussions were held on it. There were just two rounds of consultations. The coordinators decided to push the draft resolution through without taking into consideration the concerns expressed, nor the comments an…
We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, for her assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, and to welcome her to the Security Council Chamber for the first time in her current c…
We would like to note that we did not undermine the consensus. However, our delegation would like to dissociate itself from the consensus, given that the European Union and its structures — unfortunately — are politicizing environmental and climate cooperation.
We would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing. We also note the participation in our meeting today of the Permanent Representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
We are concerned by the information we have received about the blocking of Lachin corridor, which has …
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2666 (2022), submitted by our French colleagues, on extending the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). We note the work done by the penholders on the file, primarily to take in…
We wish to thank the Under-Secretary- General, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, the Chargé d’affaires ad interim of the Delegation of the European Union, Mr. Silvio Gonzato, and Mr. Fergal Mythen, the Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), the Permanent Representative of…
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his report on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
We note the alarming frequency of the spiking violence that is recurring in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the West Bank and Gaza. We believe firmly that the situation will remain volatile u…
We thank Mr. Abdoulaye Bathily, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), for his briefing. We also thank you, Madam, for your briefing as Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970…
The results of the vote speak for themselves. The text of previous iterations of the consensus- based omnibus annual resolution enjoyed unanimous support, whereas resolution 77/238 has lost the support of almost one third of all Member States, including those that voted against the resolution or abs…
We will vote against draft resolution III, on the situation of human rights in Iran, and draft resolution V, on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic. We dissociate ourselves from the consensus on draft resolution I, on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Rep…
First of all, I would like to sincerely thank all delegations that voted in favour of resolution 77/204, on combating neo-Nazism.
For Russia, this resolution is the blood and suffering of every family. It is a tribute to the memory of the heroism of our forebears. We are the last generation that in…
Allow me, first of all, to express our condolences to the delegation of Ireland following the death of the Irish peacekeeper in Lebanon.
We thank the Indian delegation for convening the meeting today on such a relevant topic, and we express our support for all victims of terrorism, represented here…
