We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), Ms. Bintou Keita, for her informative briefing. We also thank the Permanent Representative of the Niger, Mr. Abdou Abarry,…
Sport is a paramount achievement of human civilization, a universal language of human communication. The well-known expression “sport is an ambassador of peace” acquires particular significance when it is sanctified by the noble traditions of the Olympic truce. The need to raise future generations i…
We welcome the briefings on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015), concerning the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Qaida and associated individuals, groups, undertakings and entities; the Committee established pursuan…
We welcome you, Sir, as President of the Security Council as you usher in the Council’s winter season. I take this opportunity to also thank the entire team of Mexico for its very successful presidency in November.
We welcome Mr. Christian Ritscher, Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations In…
We wish to thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in the Middle East. We listened attentively to the statement delivered by Ms. Ero. It is symbolic that today’s meeting takes place in the wake of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
It i…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting. I would first like to congratulate Ms. Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani and Mr. Martin Bille Hermann, the Permanent Representatives of Qatar and Denmark, on their appointment as co-Chairs of the intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council re…
The Russian Federation has a generally positive view of the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) during the reporting period and has supported and sponsored draft resolution A/76/L.10, on the report of the IAEA (A/76/232), to be adopted today. We are unfailingly committed to support…
We thank Special Envoy Ján Kubiš for his briefing on the situation in Libya, as well as the Permanent Representative of India, Mr. Tirumurti, for his statement as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya. We will also listen very carefully to the repres…
The Russian Federation attaches great importance to the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, adopted by the General Assembly in 2010 as resolution 64/293. In that connection, we welcome the adoption during the opening segment (see A/76/PV.37) o…
I did not intend to take the floor again, yet I cannot help expressing my surprise over the obsessive persistence that our Estonian colleagues demonstrate at almost every Security Council meeting, seizing on any pretext to present a deceptive interpretation of developments at the Belarusian-Polish a…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, for her informative briefing on the situation in Iraq. We also listened carefully to Ms. Kabashi’s remarks.
We welcome the early elections to the Council of Representatives of Iraq on 10 October. We trust …
We welcome Mr. Karim Khan in his new position as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. We hope that his accession to the Court will lead to the correction of the significant imbalances consistently highlighted by our delegation and bring the Court closer to at least partially recovering it…
We are pleased to see you, Mr. Secretary, presiding over the Security Council. We thank Mr. Robin Geiss and Ms. María Pía Devoto for their briefings.
The illicit trafficking in small arms and light weapons (SALW) generates many threats and challenges. That is particularly acute in developing States…
We thank Ms. Deborah Lyons, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for sharing her thoughts and views on the situation in Afghanistan. We are also grateful to Ms. Freshta Karim for her clear, emotional and brave state…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, Mr. James Swan, as well as the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia and Head of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), M…
We have to take the floor, since we regret the fact that some delegations are continuing to use the most inappropriate reasons for promoting their propaganda work. The important topic of conflict prevention is not an exception. The situation in Belarus is a clear example of the destabilizing externa…
We welcome the participation of Secretary- General António Guterres; the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Abdulla Shahid; the President of the Economic and Social Council, Mr. Collen Vixen Kelapile; and the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Joan Donoghue, in today’s meetin…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2607 (2021), prepared by the United Kingdom, on the extension of the sanctions regime against Somalia.
We regret that the Security Council has again failed to reach consensus, although that possibility was well within reach.
We cannot ag…
We thank Under-Secretary General Jean- Pierre Lacroix for his briefing on developments in the region. We also thank the representative of the Joint Force of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G-5 Sahel) for his briefing.
Russia agrees that, unfortunately, the situation in the Sahel during the reporti…
The position of the Russian Federation on the activities of the International Criminal Court is well known. Many say that bringing perpetrators to justice is the key to peace. However, when a politicized international judiciary takes up the case, the opposite can be true.
The report (see A/76/293) …
