At the outset, I would like to thank the briefers, Ms. Loraine Sievers and Ms. Karin Landgren, for their comprehensive briefings. We echo the colleagues who paid tribute to Professor Edward Luck and Ambassador Kenzo Oshima for their studies of the Security Council’s working methods. We also thank Ms…
Indeed, Mr. President, I would like to speak on a point of order, in order to state for the record that when you invited the representative of Brazil to speak on a point of order, I
did not interrupt my colleague Ambassador Costa Filho during his statement, out of respect. However, I want to say fo…
I am very pleased to provide a summary on behalf of the Chief External Expert on HIV Infection of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Mr. Alexei Mazus.
The last thematic panel was dedicated to considering the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on the AIDS response a…
I should like to respond, first and foremost, to the statement delivered by the representative of the United States of America, the tone of which was more bellicose and aggressive towards Russia than the remarks of the majority of our European colleagues. Perhaps because the United States of America…
We welcome the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles, and we listened very carefully to his assessments.
We are in favour of developing cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations on the b…
The cheer and enthusiasm of Judge Agius and Prosecutor Brammertz in reporting on the achievements of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals was palpable. What haste in sharing with us the news of the conviction of another high-ranking Serb.
The publicized verdict against Ratko …
Allow me to thank the Permanent Representatives of Georgia and the Philippines for coordinating the negotiations on the modalities for holding a high-level meeting on trafficking in persons. The Russian Federation attaches great importance to international efforts to eliminate trafficking.
Our supp…
We are grateful to Mr. François Louncény Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for his update on the situation in the Central African subregion.
Russia has always supported the activity of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa as
an important instrument of prevent…
I will switch to English for clarity and straightforwardness. It is good that we engaged in a dialogue with the Director- General. It looks as if the Director-General came to this
meeting prepared to speak, or rather he was prepared to speak.
Today we heard from some of our colleagues that we shou…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of extending the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan (UNITAMS). Our view is that it is absolutely necessary to help Khartoum as they build their State and implement peacebuilding initiatives. What is also importan…
This is the first time since last October that the Security Council has met in order to discuss resolution 2118 (2013) in person (see S/PV.8764), and we are grateful to the Estonian presidency for that. This is yet one more step towards the return of the Security Council to its traditional methods o…
We thank the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, and the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, for their briefings on the situation in the Palestinian territories. We …
We are grateful to the General Assembly for the adoption of draft resolution A/75/L.87/Rev.1. We have taken an important step forward towards a common goal — developing a universal convention — and we hope that the elaboration of a joint decision to counter cybercrime under the auspices of the Unite…
We would like to call on delegations to vote against the amendments to draft resolutions A/75/L.90 and A/75/L.92, presented, respectively, by Brazil and the United Kingdom, because they are not constructive. They are aimed at undermining the process of developing a convention.
Brazil’s amendment se…
Russia has submitted a draft resolution, A/75/L.87/ Rev.1, entitled “Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes”, which was the outcome of an agreement reached during the just-concluded organizational meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Compreh…
At the outset, I wish to say that today is of course a very special day for the Security Council. For the first time since 8 December 2020, the Council is convening an in-person meeting. We thank the Chinese presidency for making that possible. That was our consistent position, and we have long urge…
The Russian Federation welcomes draft resolution A/75/L.88, on holding the international meeting entitled “Stockholm+50”. We would like to express our gratitude to the delegations of Sweden and Kenya for the initiative and for the readiness to provide Member States with the opportunity to jointly co…
Today’s meeting of the General Assembly clearly demonstrates what we warned about in February (see A/75/PV.55). Through distorted reasoning and misleading and patently false arguments, the established practice of the General Assembly was flouted — a practice that was adopted by consensus to ensure …
