Let me respond to the remarks of the
representative of the United States and make the following points.
Unlike the United States, Russia does border on North Korea and is very much concerned over the dangerous developments around the Korean peninsula. That means that we have no choice but to consi…
We would like to thank Mr. Khaled Khiari for his briefing.
Russia objects to any military activity that threatens the security of the Korean peninsula and the countries in North-East Asia. We note with regret that in recent months the situation on the Korean peninsula has shown a tendency to worsen…
We wish to thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis- Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for her briefing on the situation in the Republic of Iraq.
We are closely following the developments in friendly Iraq, where we remain concerned about the internal political instability, compounded b…
I value your irony, Mr. President, but just to get things straight, the representative of Gazprom — whose participation in this meeting we facilitated — obviously requested the floor through us because he has a means of communication through us, and not because the Russian State is the major shareho…
Before we thank you, Mr. President, for the French presidency of the Security Council during the month of September, we would like to point out that during the meeting we were informed that one of our briefers, the representative of Gazprom, wanted to make a brief comment at the end of the meeting, …
I am grateful to my United States colleague for his direct response to a direct question, which was whether he could confirm right now, in this Chamber, whether or not his country was involved in this act of sabotage. My American colleague’s response was to declare, in this Chamber, that the United …
We thank Special Representative Keita for her briefing and listened carefully to Mr. Mudinga’s remarks. We would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Gabon for presenting the report on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning …
We thank the representatives of the United Nations Secretariat and Gazprom for their briefings. We also thank Mr. Eyl-Mazzega. I will not comment on his interesting but at times not always objective briefing on what is happening on the gas market. We have a representative of Gazprom in the Chamber w…
We are forced to note that some of our colleagues in the Security Council have reached a new low. Even the few vestiges of decorum that, it seemed to us, remained in this Chamber have been violated. I do not know of any other examples of the Security Council adopting a draft resolution that directly…
Before I address the topic of the meeting directly, I would like to express my bewilderment at the fact that you, Mr. President, did not see fit to grant our urgent request to convene a meeting today on the situation regarding the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline. As a result, we will now be dis…
We thank Tor Wennesland for his briefing on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
The escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone in August once again showed that the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories will remain volatile until the parties reach mutually acceptable c…
I will be very brief.
I would simply like to draw members’ attention to the fact that what we have just heard from the representative of Albania confirms the double standards that I referred to with regard to Kosovo. I gave an example as to how our Western colleagues dealt with Kosovo and are now c…
I feel compelled to respond to the statement made by our United States colleague and his claims that Russia has done nothing to benefit Afghanistan. In that regard, just as at the last meeting of the Security Council on Afghanistan (see S/PV.9118), it is important to recall the state in which the Un…
Referendums on accession to the Russian Federation were held in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions. The official results will be announced over the next few days. This is a long-awaited event for the people of Donbas. It should bring peace …
We thank Ms. Ghada Waly, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for her briefing on the narcotics situation in Afghanistan. We also listened carefully to Mr. Markus Potzel, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Acting Head of the Unit…
Once again, we would like to make clear our position regarding yet another attempt by our Western colleagues to push through the participation of the President of Ukraine, Mr. Zelenskyy, in today’s meeting via video-teleconference. We have repeatedly underscored that, in and of itself, we are not ag…
We thank the briefers for the information that they provided. We welcome the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Haiti and the Dominican Republic at this meeting.
The news that the situation in Port-au-Prince has stabilized is encouraging. Nevertheless, by all accounts, the country is one step away fr…
We are meeting at a difficult and dramatic moment. Crises are growing, and the international security situation is deteriorating rapidly. Instead of honest dialogue and compromise, what we have is disinformation, coarse statements and provocations. The West’s policy is undermining trust in internati…
As I understand it, today’s meeting was motivated by the intention of several delegations to discuss the topic of impunity in Ukraine. I think that is very timely because it is precisely impunity that reflects what has been going on in that country since 2014. National radical forces, outspoken Russ…
