There was a time when, for many of us, Europe was synonymous with the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment, with progressive thought, culture and science. Today, however, that legacy is unfortunately gone, and gone for good. Great philosophers, such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Kant, have been repl…
We have already stated our principled position today, which entails rejecting both the attempts by European States to trigger a snapback and the actions of the presidency in support of those attempts, which include the introduction of this draft resolution (S/2025/561). Our position on this matter r…
We are compelled to take the floor on a point of order, because we do not see any legal, political or procedural grounds for taking any steps to advance European claims about launching the snapback mechanism, including proceeding to a vote on the draft resolution submitted by the South Korean presid…
We extend our gratitude to the non-permanent members of the Council for their initiative and perseverance in putting forward this draft resolution (S/2025/583), addressing the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. The Russian Federation voted in favour of this document, which outlines the key el…
We thank the Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, and to the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Tom Fletcher, for their detailed assessments of the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. We listened very carefully to the statement made by Ms. Chourbaji.
We note that, despi…
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 the country. We took careful note of the statement by the civil society representative, Ms. Hanifa Girowal.…
We wish to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Yemen, Mr. Grundberg, and Under- Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Thomas Fletcher, for their briefings.
The situation in Yemen continues to give rise to very serious concerns. There has been virtually no progress in the …
Today the members of the Security Council have been convened to discuss an incident that took place on the territory of Poland on the night of 9 to 10 September. According to reports from the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces, more than a dozen uncrewed aerial vehicles entered the count…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, for her briefing. We welcome the new Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations, Mr. Olabi, and the representative of Türkiye.
We carefully examined the most recent report o…
Let me congratulate you, Mr. President, on assuming the presidency of the Security Council for the month of September. I also thank Panama for its presidency in August.
We thank the delegation of the Republic of Korea for organizing this very timely discussion on the future of peace operations in t…
The meetings on Ukraine requested by our Western colleagues follow the same fairly primitive template. Russia is being accused of strikes on Ukrainian cities, and they baselessly assert that the attacks were allegedly targeting civilian objects, ignoring the fact that during our strikes, civilian ca…
We are grateful to Mr. António Guterres and UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell for their briefings. We have closely listened to the representative of civil society.
Regrettably, the situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate, as clearly illustrated by the facts presented today by the Secr…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of the resolution crafted by France on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) (resolution 2790 (2025)). That decision was guided primarily by the position of the Lebanese Republic as a State hosting peacekeepers on …
We are grateful to today’s briefers for the information they provided on the situation in the Gaza Strip.
Over the past few days, we, like many others of our colleagues, have been stunned by new information showing record levels of famine in Gaza. Persistent calls on Israel to immediately stop the …
As I spoke first, if I may, I would like to briefly comment on some of the remarks we heard in the Chamber today.
First and foremost, in response to my Danish colleague, I would like to underscore his words regarding the assertion that Denmark has substantively cooperated with the Russian Federatio…
We would like to thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing. Unfortunately, he did not properly update us. He did not mention the fact that today we circulated our letter (S/2025/534) regarding the assessments in the letter from the representatives of Denmark, Germany and Swed…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee for her briefing. We welcome the participation of the Permanent Representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in this meeting.
Since the end of June, we have all been following with optimism the progress achieved through interna…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Ms. Hanna Tetteh, for her report. We also listened carefully to the report of the Somali Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to …
We would like to thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Tom Fletcher, for their detailed briefings on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic.
We have been carefully following the situation in fr…
We thank Mr. Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov and Ms. Natalia Mirchevna Gherman for their substantive briefings on the activities of the departments they head. We highly commend the work of the Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate. Russia stands ready to c…
