The Russian Federation abstained from the voting on the draft Security Council resolution prepared by the United States of America on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (resolution 2625 (2022)). We regret that the document
did not properly reflect the positive…
We were not surprised by the statement made by the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). We knew what he would talk about even before he took the floor. What we were surprised by is that the briefing and assessments of Under-Secretary-General DiCarl…
We thank the Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), Mr. Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez, for his thorough briefing on the work of that subsidiary body of the Security Council and his indication of the priorities for the upcoming period.
The Russian Federation is unwa…
What conclusions can be drawn from our discussion today? As we expected, first and foremost of our Western colleagues, not one of them addressed the substance of the issue we put forward. While my American colleague was throwing thunderbolts and accusing us, as we expected, of spreading propaganda, …
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has demonstrated how vulnerable humankind is to biological threats. It has already taken, and continues to take, an enormous toll on human life.
With the entry into force of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in 1975, it was hoped that the world woul…
I am not going to take up too much of my colleagues’ time.
Since a number of our Western colleagues touched on issues that are not related to the topic of today’s meeting — namely, Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine — I would like to respond to what has been said. For example, the repr…
The Council met 10 days ago to discuss the Syrian chemical weapons (see S/PV.8982), and since then there have been no changes on the ground or at the level of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This was reconfirmed by the report of the Director-General of the OPCW for t…
We express our gratitude to the United Arab Emirates presidency of the Security Council and you personally, Madam Minister, for organizing today’s debate. We have listened with interest to the statements by Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN-Women; Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director …
I have not taken the floor again to engage in controversy with the Ambassador of Ukraine. I have a different task, to which I will revert.
However, I cannot help saying a few words with regard to some remarks made by the Permanent Representative of Ukraine. He interpreted the letter “Z” on the Russ…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, for his informative briefing. We also listened attentively to the information provided by the Interim Chairperson of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission, Major General Charles …
We thank Martin Griffiths for his views. We welcome the new Executive Director of UNICEF, Catherine Russell, to this meeting and thank her for her briefing. We wish to note that we have seen the unbiased reaction of the Fund to the Ukraine crisis over the past eight years of its duration. The Fund d…
Today’s meeting is another attempt by Kyiv authorities to kindle artificial hysteria around what is happening in Ukraine, and they are being assisted in this by their Western backers.
Today we have once again heard lies about how Russian troops attacked the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, and thi…
At the outset of my statement, I would like to congratulate the delegation of the United Arab Emirates on the start of its presidency of the Security Council this month and wish you, Madam President, every success; you can count on our support.
We would like to thank the Special Representative of t…
I would like to begin my statement with a clarification. The agenda item on which we are convened to discuss today has clearly been named incorrectly. If it is to reflect reality, then it should refer not to temporarily occupied territories, but rather territories lost as a result of the misanthropi…
I had not planned on entering into a conversation between Russia and the United States at this meeting. We said everything we wanted to say in our statement today. However, we simply do not understand the threats, provocation and escalation by Russia being referred to by the representative of the Un…
We would like to thank Ms. DiCarlo for her briefing.
First and foremost, I would like to thank those countries that conducted themselves properly and deemed it possible to vote against or abstain in the voting on the proposal of the United States to raise this topic for discussion today. One might …
The Russian Federation voted in favour of
resolution 2619 (2022), rolling over the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) until 30 April of this year, based, first and foremost, on our conviction that there is no alternative to reaching a comprehensive peace settlement to t…
The Russian Federation requests a procedural vote on the proposal to hold today’s meeting on the initiative of the United States. In explaining its proposal to convene today’s meeting, the delegation of the United States underscored that it considers the deployment of Russian troops on Russian terri…
I wanted to take the floor to express our surprise at the statements to the effect that Russia’s non-participation in the deconfliction mechanism is not acceptable and violates the norms of international humanitarian law. It was very surprising to us to be accused by the United Kingdom, whose armed …
I am forced to comment on the statement delivered by my esteemed colleague, Mr. Richard Mills.
The freedom of the press and the opposition are indeed very interesting topics in Russia and in all other
countries. Indeed, we have quite a lot to say about this, but that is not the topic of today’s me…
