I say to Mr. Kyslytsya not to try to drive a wedge between me and Spokesperson Peskov. I saw his statement this morning. The information I referred to was not written at Sixty-seventh Street — where the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations is located — it is informatio…
I would like to say to the Ukrainian representative that I am glad he is interested in Russian poetry. But that is not surprising — we all come from the same country and were probably taught the same lessons at school. I want to correct him.
“O, do the Russians long for war?
Ask of the stillness e…
We would like to thank Special Envoy Griffiths for his briefing on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. We also thank Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs a, for his briefing. Russia very much commends the courageous efforts of all humanitarian agencies wo…
We are grateful for the support for our initiative to convene today’s meeting on an issue that is highly relevant to European security, and we thank the briefers for their assessments. We welcome to today’s meeting the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mr. Kyslytsya. As far as we under…
The Russian Federation welcomes the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Niger at today’s briefing. We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau, Ms. Rosine Sori-Coulibaly, and the Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commissi…
Belgium has proposed a debate on a very important topic, and we are grateful to it. We welcome the presence of Ministers here, and we also welcome Ms. Bachelet and other keynote speakers and thank them for their contribution to this discussion on the role of transitional justice in efforts towards p…
We thank Belgium for its initiative to convene today’s meeting. We also thank His Majesty King Philippe for his encouraging and powerful statement, and Their Majesties for their efforts in the area of child protection. We further thank the Secretary-General and the briefers for their contributions t…
I am not going to repeat what I said before about why we have doubts about whether resolution
2510 (2020) can be implemented. That is what led us to abstain in the voting. We will see; events will show us who was right. If the resolution has a positive impact on resolving the conflict, I will be th…
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2510 (2020), which was drafted by the United Kingdom and Germany in support of the Berlin Conference on Libya. We still do not have a clear understanding of whether all Libyan parties are ready to implement that decision, although we have …
We are pleased to see Minister Goffin preside over the Security Council and to welcome the President of Palestine, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas. We thank the Secretary-General of the United Nations for his statement and are grateful to the Special Coordinator, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his report on the situa…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2508 (2020), on extending the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005), concerning the Sudan.
As we see it, the situation in Darfur is steadily normalizing. We note the gener…
Russia abstained in the voting on resolution 2509 (2020), submitted by Germany and the United Kingdom, which extends the sanctions regime on Libya, as the text did not include our important and duly justified comments. The sponsors of the resolution
included new language on the illicit importation …
We thank Mr. Voronkov and Ms. Coninsx for their detailed analysis of the situation regarding the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). We express our support for the activities of the entities they head and the plans and initiatives being developed in the area of counter-ter…
We are always impressed by the institutional memory of Mr. Heusgen, who took part in the negotiations on drafting the Minsk agreements, although his memory has recently started to significantly fail him.
Regarding the aggression against Ukraine, in recent history there is only one example of such a…
Today we are discussing the question of the situation in Syria, as requested by the delegations of three countries. Today’s discussion directly affects the Syrian Arab Republic. This is not an open debate today at which 120 Members of the United Nations take the floor. The five-minute rule is not ev…
We thank the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Prime Minister and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania, Mr. Edi Rama, for his briefing on the work of the Organization and the issues on its agenda.
The Russian Feder…
We would like to thank Mr. Mark Lowcock and Mr. Geir Pedersen for their briefings.
Today we are once again discussing the situation in Syria in the Security Council. We discussed it twice
in one day alone, on 29 January (see S/PV.8707 and S/PV.8708), we discussed it yesterday and there are two mor…
We thank the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu, for introducing the report of the Secretary General on small arms and light weapons (SALW) (S/2019/1011). We are also grateful to Mr. Damien Spleeters for his valuable briefing on the work of the non-governmental organiz…
Russia was unable to support today’s resolution 2507 (2020). We sincerely appreciate the penholder’s efforts; however, not all of our arguments were taken into account in the drafting the text of the resolution. We advocated for a greater easing of the arms embargo. Unfortunately, neither Bangui’s o…
We thank Secretary-General António Guterres and the Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Dato Lim Jock Hoi, for their informative briefings on cooperation between ASEAN and the United Nations in maintaining international peace and security. We also appreciate the …
