We thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for presenting the report of the Secretary-General (S/2019/934) on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2231 (2015). We note the work of the Permanent Representative of Belgium as Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of the resolution’s provi…
We would like to thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov for his informative report on the situation in the Middle East and the occupied Palestinian territories. We also listened carefully to Ms. Adele Raemer’s briefing.
We can only concur with the Special Coordinator’s key conclusion that negative trends with…
We would first of all like to note that the signing of the Interim Constitutional Declaration has been an important step on the path to stabilizing the situation in the Sudan over the long term. We want to point to the mediation efforts of Ethiopia and the African Union in the negotiation process, w…
We thank today’s briefers, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Mr. David Shearer and the Ambassador of Poland, Ms. Wronecka, for their information. I also want to thank the Ambassador for her confident and professional stewardship of the
Committee established pursuant to resolution 2206…
We would first like to thank our colleagues from the European Union for their work on ensuring an agreement on resolution 74/116, on the safety and security of humanitarian personnel, and for their efforts to secure a consensus on that resolution. For that reason we did not attempt to prevent its ad…
The Russian Federation considers international cooperation on emergency humanitarian assistance to be one of the most important areas of the work of the United Nations. Against a backdrop of growing humanitarian needs around the world resulting from natural disasters, conflicts and technological cat…
I would like to thank Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, the Special Representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for his analysis of the processes unfolding in Afghanistan. We share many of the views in the Secretary-General’s most recent q…
I would like to begin, Madam President, by drawing attention to the fact that the theme of the briefing as it was designated in the Security Council’s December programme of work is somewhat different from what you have proposed for our discussion today, according to the explanatory note. We assume t…
The topic of strengthening health systems through international cooperation under the socioeconomic direction of the United Nations is a high priority for the Russian Federation. We believe that issues such as the prevention and combating of communicable and non-communicable diseases, the fight agai…
We wish to welcome Mr. Carmel Agius and Mr. Serge Brammertz, the President and Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
Today, on 11 December, we can sum up the year’s results. Unfortunately, the international community is still dragging around the useless remains …
Many of those who have spoken before me today mentioned the role of the Security Council. We see today’s meeting as an opportunity to review the results of the Council’s action over the past two years in implementing its own decisions in its quest to find a political and diplomatic solution to the k…
As a leading maritime Power, Russia pays special attention to the development and improvement of international cooperation on ocean affairs on the basis of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. We thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report (A/74/350) on the subject.…
The draft resolutions that the General Assembly adopts generally fall into three groups. The first group is consensus draft resolutions. Work is done on them, positions are agreed on and Member States often reach difficult compromises, because they understand the power of the message that such colle…
I would like to thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General François Louncény Fall for his briefing on the situation in the Central African region. We also listened carefully to Mr. Sasha Lezhnev’s briefing.
Russia has consistently supported the activities of the United Nations Regional O…
We would first like to thank the Under- Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States for the preparation and substantive content of this meeting, which is important for mobilizing international coopera…
Issues pertaining to the safety of navigation and the protection of the lives of persons on board vessels, including crew members, are of primary importance to the Russian Federation. In that
connection, we supported the Council’s adoption of resolution 2500 (2019) today.
Thanks to the concerted e…
We congratulate you, Madam President, on your accession to the presidency of the Security Council, and thank the United Kingdom for its presidency last month. We also want to thank Ms. Jeanine Hennis- Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Iraq, Archbishop Bashar Matti War…
The Russian Federation attaches particular importance to the careful consideration of the situation in Afghanistan. I listened with great attention and respect to the statement by the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan. Russia and Afghanistan enjoy friendly relations that nothing can undermine.…
We would like to thank Mr. Khan and Mr. Kachi. Our country has consistently supported strengthening stability and security in Iraq. The main role in that process lies of course with the Iraqi people and Government. We are interested in eradicating the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and th…
We thank the President for convening today’s meeting. The issue of reform of the Security Council is one of the most complex as well as most important issues on the Organization’s agenda. That is because in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the Security Council is the organ that bea…
