We welcome your participation in today’s meeting, Mr. President. We would like to thank the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and the former President of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, as well as Ms. Fawzia Koofi, for their briefings. It was especially important for us to hear the opinio…
We are grateful for the opportunity to have another, more detailed discussion of the Secretary- General’s report Our Common Agenda and its ideas on the future direction of the Organization’s work and international cooperation.
We believe that there is much in the report that deserves close attentio…
We are grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres for the information he has provided on developments in Ethiopia. We also welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations, Mr. Taye Atskeselassie Amde.
First and foremost, we would li…
We wish to thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu for her briefing on the report of the Secretary- General (S/2021/839). We also listened carefully to Mr. Badreldin Elamin Abdelgadir and Mr. David Lochhead.
We support the fact that the Kenyan presidency is conducting today’s meeting on small arms and light wea…
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 substantive briefing. We would like to thank the Permanent Representative of the Niger, Mr. Aba…
We thank Ms. Helen La Lime for her briefing on the very difficult situation in Haiti. We listened with interest to the statement delivered by Ms. Douyon. We welcome His Excellency Mr. Claude Joseph, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti, to today’s meeting.
Regrettably, alarming reports continue to…
Today Mrs. Nakamitsu presented the ninety- sixth monthly — the most recent — report of the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013) (S/2021/842, annex). Those documents have long since been based on the same t…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2599 (2021), which extends the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to 31 January 2022.
First of all, we are convinced that there is no alternative to a comprehensive, peaceful settlement of the Libyan crisis under the …
We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his informative briefing. We listened carefully to the briefings by Ms. Mai Farsakh and Ms. Meredith Rothbart.
The stalled Middle East peace process, compounded by the fact that its core issue, the Palestinian question, remains unresolved, creates a constant hotbed o…
We listened carefully to the briefing of Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on the outcomes of her trip to the region, as well as the briefing by the representative of Somali civil society, Ms. Shukria Dini.
We appreciate the very important political signal that the Deputy Secretary-General’s …
We wish to thank Geir Pedersen for his briefing. We listened closely to Ms. Rouba Mhaissen.
On the political track, we welcome the progress observed in the resumption of the efforts of the Constitutional Committee in Geneva. In our contacts with the parties and the leading actors, we have continuou…
Russia is consistently committed to the goal of a complete and irrevocable cessation of nuclear testing throughout the world. Since 1991, our country has observed a moratorium on nuclear testing, and during that time has not conducted a single nuclear test.
This year marks the twenty-fifth annivers…
I am glad to have this opportunity to speak from the rostrum of the General Assembly. The fact that we have once again gathered in this Hall symbolizes our collective readiness to resume our normal communication, which had been suspended since the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic…
The Russian Federation wholeheartedly shares the international concern regarding the issue of climate change. According to our calculations, the climate in Russia is warming 2.5 times faster than the global average. At the same time, we are witnessing increasingly destructive natural phenomena. The …
The statement by Mr. Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, clearly shows how strong anti-Russian sentiments are in Ukraine and the degree to which the nationalists who came to power in 2014 have reprogrammed the brains of the residents of their country. The references…
For the third time in the past two weeks, we have been obliged to request a vote on the agenda item entitled “The situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine”. There are no occupied territories in Ukraine. There is a civil war going on there. The eastern part of Ukraine does not wan…
The Russian Federation voted in support of this technical resolution 2596 (2021) extending the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for six months, until 17 March 2022.
We support the activities of UNAMA to coordinate international assistance in Afghanistan. We ex…
In view of the fact that this paragraph of the report of the General Committee (A/76/250) concerns the specifics of conducting the session during a pandemic, I would like to make the following statement. Concerning the issue of access to the United Nations buildings and premises, including the Gener…
We thank Mr. Martin Griffiths for his briefing and for providing a detailed account of the outcomes of his trip to Syria and its neighbouring States. We commend the active and constructive position of the new head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for the Syri…
The Russian Federation supported the technical resolution submitted by the United Kingdom on extending the mandate of the United Nations Support
Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) until 30 September (resolution 2595 (2021). At the same time, we would like to underscore our unstinting support for the efforts…
