I have asked for the floor to respond to the remarks made by our German colleague. It seems that he did not listen very carefully to my statement, because I did mention international humanitarian law, for example. Besides that, his attention to the topic of the statement was also lacking, because th…
We thank Mr. Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, for his briefing, as well as his dedicated efforts to establish an intra-Syrian dialogue. We also listened with interest to Ms. Sabah Al Hallak.
As Mr. Pedersen has just informed us, the first round of intra-Syrian negoti…
We thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, and Ms. Ursula Mueller, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for their comprehensive overview of the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen.
As we have heard from today’s briefers, the situation…
The Russian Federation joined the consensus on presidential statement S/PRST/2019/14 primarily because of our serious concerns about the numerous incidents involving terrorist and extremist groups’ use of chemical weapons in the Middle East, including for the purposes of provocation. We urge Council…
We thank Special Representative of the Secretary-General James Swan for his comprehensive briefing on developments in Somalia. We also thank the other briefers for the information they have shared with us. We join other speakers in expressing our condolences in connection with the tragic death of Ms…
We thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his report on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. We would also like to thank Tania Hary for her briefing.
We are regrettably compelled to note that over and over again when we discuss …
We welcome the presence at today’s meeting of Mr. Alpha Barry, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Burkina Faso, and we thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, and the other briefers for their reports.
We concur with today’s alarming assessments of the situation …
As I understand it, these questions are addressed personally to Mr. Dmitry Polyanskiy, who is at an event with the Secretary-General at the moment. He will undoubtedly respond to them. I do not want to turn the important subject of national reconciliation into what is frankly an effort to dig up the…
We thank the Secretary-General and the other briefers for their assessments of the role of reconciliation in maintaining international peace and security.
Lasting national reconciliation is indeed a determining factor in the successful resolution of conflicts and the prevention of relapses into con…
The Russian Federation was compelled to abstain in the voting on resolution 2498 (2019), extending the sanctions against Somalia. We agree that the situation in that country in the Horn of Africa remains tumultuous. We took an active part in the efforts to identify and clarify the provisions of the …
I see that the representative of Germany still reads the New York Times. We long ago turned to more reliable sources of information and advise him to do the same.
As we understand it, the board of inquiry is an internal mechanism of the United Nations. Its report will be presented to the Secretary-…
I am about to conclude, Madam President.
Everything has got worse since a significant number of refugees from other camps in the north- east moved there. Half of the residents are women and children. It is high time to think about handing over the illegally occupied territory to the Syrian authorit…
I would like to begin by thanking Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock for his comprehensive and informative briefing. We agree that we continue to see the most difficult humanitarian and military situation in the territories outside the control of the Syrian Government on the eastern bank of the Eu…
This year the international community suffered a heavy loss with the untimely death of Mr. Yukiya Amano, the late Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The contribution he made to strengthening international peace and security and promoting the peaceful use of nuclear te…
We welcome the convening of today’s meeting of the General Assembly on the implementation of United Nations resolutions and the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly. We would like to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Ghana and Slovakia on their appointment as co-Chairs of t…
We thank all of today’s briefers for their assessments. We would also like to ask the Heads of the peacekeeping missions’ police contingents to convey our thanks to all Blue Berets for their conscientious service and for carrying out the difficult task of maintaining peace and security. We pay tribu…
The Russian Federation strongly supports the immediate lifting of the United States blockade against Cuba introduced 57 years ago. We categorically reject the sanctions against Cuba spearheaded by the United States. We believe that it is not a question of problems in the relations between the two St…
The eighteenth report of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on this issue is extremely short on information regarding the outcomes and dynamics of the work of the Court on the investigation in Libya. There is nothing to comment on. I should like simply to reiterate the words with which the Prose…
I would to thank today’s briefers. We listened carefully to the briefing by the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and must once again note that the information he provided, as well as the report (S/2019/843, annex) circulated in the Security Council, do not provide an objective and bala…
We have shared our views on the activities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) repeatedly and in detail. The past year, unfortunately, has been cause for even more pessimistic assessments. We are
disappointed that the text of resolution 74/6, on the report of the ICC (see A/74/324), has once …
