We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Ghassan Salamé, for his detailed briefing on developments in the military and political situation in Libya. We are also grateful for the representative of Germany’s briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolut…
We listened carefully to the briefing by Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock but, clearly, he did not have time to stay and listen to us and the Syrian representative. That is a shame. I am sure that it would have been useful for him to hear what we have to say, and I hope that his colleagues will …
We thank the Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Ms. Khawla Matar, for her briefing. This morning we had an opportunity to discuss the humanitarian situation in Syria (see S/PV.8707). We can only reiterate our call on Western donors to reject the practice of double standards wit…
We thank the Secretary-General for preparing his informative report (A/74/1) on the work of the Organization over the past year. Our foray further into a multipolar world was accompanied by the potential for greater conflict and a growing terrorist threat, more dividing lines and migration.
We also…
We wish to thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo and Ms. Ursula Mueller for their briefings.
For the first time in 2020, we are holding a debate on the situation in the Middle East, and unfortunately we again begin the year with the alarming observation that not only has the region not seen positive trends, b…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, and the Director of the Coordination Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Raj Rajasingham, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. We hig…
We thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under- Secretary-General for Peace Operations, for his briefing.
Russia is deeply concerned about the deteriorating security situation in many parts of Mali in recent months. Tragic reports of deaths of military personnel
and civilians at the hands of jihadists de…
Our delegation agrees on the importance of consensus in the General Assembly. It was only having understood that consensus would be impossible that we took these steps. At the same time, we can reconcile ourselves to the statements made by number of delegations about consensus, which are hypocritica…
In view of the situation, we would like to make an oral amendment to draft resolution A/74/L.5.
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In paragraph 2, replace the number “two” with the number “three”, as applied to the seats for the Group of Eastern European States.
In paragraphs 1 and 3, replace the number “twenty”…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for taking the initiative to observe a minute of silence before our meeting in memory of the victims of the earthquake in Haiti and the recent terrorist attack in Niger. We grieve together with our colleagues. We extend our condolences to our Nigerien frien…
In the light of the recent adoption of resolution 2504 (2020), the Russian Federation would like to withdraw the draft resolution contained in document S/2020/25.
The Russian Federation abstained in the voting on resolution 2504 (2020), proposed by the co-penholders, for the sole purpose of not blocking cross-border assistance to the Syrian province of Idlib, which is the only one that still really needs that method of delivering supplies. I would recall that…
The Russian Federation should like to propose an oral amendment to paragraph 6 of the draft resolution contained in document S/2020/24. We propose that the words
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“and in accordance with the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence”
be delet…
We welcome you to New York, Mr. President, and we are pleased to see you presiding over the Security Council. We also extend our gratitude to the Secretary- General and Mrs. Robinson for their briefings.
This year we will mark the closely connected seventy-fifth anniversaries of the end of the Seco…
We are pleased to see you in the President’s seat, Sir, and we wish your country a successful
presidency of the Security Council for the month of January. We also welcome all the colleagues who have joined us in the new year. We welcome their participation and stand ready to cooperate closely and c…
We are deeply disappointed with the vote on draft resolution S/2019/962 on the cross-border humanitarian assistance mechanism. My British colleague mentioned breathtaking hypocrisy, and I concur with her. However, we have a different view as to who was hypocritical in this situation. My German colle…
We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, for his comprehensive briefing. We listened with interest to his ideas about the methodology for facilitating a Syrian settlement. We also listened to the statement by Ms. Rajaa Altalli.
Russia remains committed to the pr…
The Russian Federation will vote against the humanitarian troika’s draft resolution S/2019/961, on the cross-border assistance mechanism in Syria.
The draft resolution, which has been renewed year after year, is obsolete and does not take into account the changes that have occurred in Syria since 2…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for her briefing and also welcome the participation of Mr. Khaled Sulaiman Aljarallah, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Kuwait.
The most problematic humanitarian and military situation is still in the territories outside the control of the S…
