We would like to thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations for his thoughts and views on the situation in Afghanistan. We would also like to thank the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, Ambassador Ghulam M. Isaczai.
We are closely following the rapidly changing situation in Afghanista…
We are grateful to Mr. James Swan, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Francisco Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia and Head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), for their traditionally informative briefing…
We thank Ms. Deborah Lyons, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for her thoughts and views. We believe that UNAMA plays an important role in coordinating international efforts in Afghanistan. We listened carefully …
I have asked for the floor once again only to express my surprise at the stance taken by our Western colleagues in connection with the incident involving an air strike and cylinders related to the incident in Douma. I already spoke about this in my main statement, so I just want to once again say th…
Like our American colleague, we would like to thank France for its successful presidency in July, and we wish you, Mr. President, the very best during your presidency this month. We stand ready to cooperate and pledge our help. We are especially grateful to you and your team for convening the Securi…
We appreciate the holding of today’s event. We thank the former Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), Ambassador Edrees of Egypt, and Ambassador Robert Rae of Canada for their comprehensive briefings and energetic efforts in guiding the work of the Commission.
United Nations peacebuilding is…
The Russian delegation supported the adoption of resolution 2588 (2021), on the extension of the sanctions regime against the Central African Republic. We note that the Security Council responded to the legitimate request of the authorities of the Central African Republic to further ease sanctions. …
We are grateful to Deputy Special Coordinator Lynn Hastings for her briefing, and we carefully listened to Yudith Oppenheimer’s briefing.
We believe that the main tasks for the upcoming period are to strengthen the agreements on the ceasefire and to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to all the…
We thank Mr. Atul Khare, Under-Secretary- General for Operational Support, for his briefing on the drawdown and withdrawal of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). We note the work of the Secretariat and the personal contribution of Mr. Khare to that complex task.
We…
At the outset, we wish to thank the authors of resolution 75/310, on “Vision for Everyone: accelerating action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals” — Bangladesh, Ireland and Antigua and Barbuda — for this beneficial initiative. We also value their leadership in establishing the informal Fri…
We note with regret that today the Security Council was unable to adopt draft resolution S/2021/667, on the appointment of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that the candidacy of Mr. Christian Schmidt was not approved by the Security Council. We have warned that any attempts by…
The Russian Federation, as a responsible member of the international community and a permanent member of the Security Council, takes very seriously its responsibilities regarding post-conflict solutions and ensuring good-neighbourly intercommunal relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our country is a…
We welcome the adoption of resolution 75/309, entitled “Promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate speech”, and we thank the delegation of Morocco for its painstaking efforts to reach a consensus on the draft. The Russian Federation attaches great importance…
I am pleased to welcome you, Mr. Minister, as President of the Security Council. I would like to thank Deputy Secretary-General Ms. Mohammed, the Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Mardini, and Ms. Grosjean for their informative and substantive briefings.
The them…
Russia has consistently advocated a return to the traditional United Nations working methods. We are pleased to note that this year’s general debate of the seventy-sixth session will take place in an
in-person format. The General Assembly will show the world that the pandemic is receding and that t…
We thank the Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu for presenting the report of the Secretary- General on the situation in the country (S/2021/603). We welcome the Vice-President and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Ms. Marta Lucía Ramírez.
Un…
We are pleased that, despite all the difficulties and contradictions, the Security Council today managed to find an important point of contact on such a complex issue as a cross-border mechanism for the supply of humanitarian aid in Syria. We are grateful to our American colleagues, who worked in th…
We welcome the participation of Mr. Sameh Hassan Shokry Selim, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt; Mrs. Mariam Alsadig Al Sedeeg Al Mahadi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan; and Mr. Seleshi Bekele Awulachew, Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy of Ethiopia, in today’s meeting.
We th…
We thank Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, and Ms. Chantal Ayemou, President of the Ivorian Network for the Protection of Children’s and Women’s Rights, for their briefings.
We share the concerns over dangerous challenges that …
The Russian Federation supported resolution 75/307, prepared by Côte d’Ivoire, on “Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie”.
However, we wish to express our disappointment at the fact that this document contains a range of formulations that do no…
