The Russian Federation’s position 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 unchanged.
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As this is the last meeting of your presidency, I would like to thank and congratulate you, Madam President, at the end of your Council presidency.
It is no exaggeration to say that we had a very busy month. Nevertheless, your presidency was very successful. Your credible stewardship of the Council…
We would like to thank the core group of the Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative, led by Norway, for introducing the draft traditional thematic resolution (A/76/L.43) and for the consultations held. The Russian delegation welcomes that document and supports its adoption by the General Assemb…
We would like to thank the President for convening today’s meeting on such an important topic. We believe that it is particularly important to disseminate knowledge about the causes, consequences, lessons and legacy of the slave trade. We are convinced that present and future generations must not fo…
I would like to respond to the statement by Ms. Sherman. I will not comment on the part about her participation in the negotiations. Of course, she is much more informed about that than I or my colleagues are. However, because the negotiations did not succeed, perhaps she fell short in some way in t…
We thank today’s briefers. Today we have heard, and will likely hear again, many calls for a humanitarian truce, the provision of humanitarian access, humanitarian pauses and humanitarian corridors. Such initiatives were advanced yesterday by Secretary-General António Guterres.
It is hard not to ma…
We wish to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Bintou Keita, for her briefing.
It is with great alarm that we have learned about the missing helicopter belonging to the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). We…
We would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General Volker Perthes for his briefing on developments in the Sudan. We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Acting Chargé d’affaires of the Sudan. We read the most recent quarterly report of the Secretary-General (S/2022…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, the Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Mr. Martin Griffiths, and the Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Mr. Hossam Zaki, for sharing their views.
We welcome…
At the outset, I wish to thank the countries that supported and co-sponsored draft resolution S/2022/231.
The vote that took place has exposed all those for whom politicizing the humanitarian file is more important than helping the United Nations to provide humanitarian aid to Ukrainians in need. W…
I would like to begin by noting that we were encouraged by the initiative proposed by our Mexican and French colleagues, who put forward a draft resolution on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine in early March. However, that draft was immediately torpedoed by our United States and British colleagu…
We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East, Mr. Tor Wennesland, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East settlement process in the context of the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016).
We listened with concern to his report on the continued impasse in the sett…
Propaganda, disinformation, amateurism, unfounded imaginings and false-flag operations are what we have heard today. Some representatives have literally repeated their statements from our meeting on 11 March (see S/PV.8991). If representatives have heard nothing new in our statement today, it is bec…
First of all, allow me to express our deep and sincere condolences to the Permanent Representative of Ireland, Ms. Geraldine Byrne Nason, and all of the Irish Mission following the sudden passing of Deputy Permanent Representative of Ireland Mr. Jim Kelly. This is obviously a loss to the Irish Missi…
We listened very carefully to the briefers, and we share the concerns voiced by United Nations about the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in a number of regions in Ukraine. It is also rightly pointed out by our colleagues in the Security Council. The difference, however, is that the assessments…
The Russian Federation was compelled to abstain in the voting on resolution 2626 (2022), extending the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). We did so for the following reasons.
From the beginning of the discussions on the draft, we tried to convey to colleagues o…
We thank the Under-Secretary-General, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, and the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya, Ambassador Tirumurti, for their briefings. We listened closely to the statement by Ms. Shuaiter.
We respect the desire of Lib…
Since the Russian delegation has already spoken on the issue of elections, I am not going to repeat what was said. I would simply like to express regret about the politicization of the elections and the lying accusations made about my country. I would also like to remind the Assembly that Russia’s c…
We have once again been confronted with an unacceptable example of politicization in the work of the General Assembly. Elections to a subsidiary body of the General Assembly should be conducted in line with the Assembly’s rules of procedure. Any State that has the right to participate in a meeting o…
We thank Mr. Hans Grundberg, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their overview of the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen.
We regret to note that the Yemeni Republic continues to experience an acute milit…
