We would like to welcome you to the Security Council, Madam President, and to thank you for organizing today’s debate on issues related to the training of peacekeepers and building the capacity of United Nations peacekeeping operations. We are also grateful to Secretary-General António Guterres and …
We too would like to thank Under- Secretary-General Lacroix for his information on the inter-Sudanese settlement and the activities of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). We welcome Mr. Onanga-Anyanga in his new role as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of…
The Russian Federation welcomes and supports the efforts of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Köhler, including through his initiative to hold round-table talks in Geneva.
For the first time in many years, a chance has emerged for achieving a just and mutually acceptable solution to …
We would like to thank Special Envoy Geir Pedersen for his briefing. We share many of his views.
Russia is taking active measures to advance the political process and restore trust among the conflicting Syrian parties. Intensive work with Iran and Turkey is under way within the Astana format, in co…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo for her report on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. We also thank the other briefers from the non-governmental organization EcoPeace Middle East.
We are sorry to have to note that the Middle East is still going through a turbule…
I would first like to ask you how you managed to get hold of our secret diplomatic textbook. You could almost have been reading it aloud. I recognized it from my time at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. That was exactly what it was like. Some other time I will tell you about wh…
I see that you are turning over your wonderful hourglass once again, Mr. President. I have to tell you that it will not help you turn back time or change the past. Incidentally, I did not see the hourglass at the open debate on sexual violence in conflict (see S/PV.8514). Or is sexual violence in co…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for her briefing. We deeply appreciate the selfless and courageous work of the humanitarian workers in Syria and other hotbeds of conflict. We are also thank Ms. Nujeen Mustapha for telling us her own story, one that is both tragic and heroic and t…
We thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing today’s event and the delegation of Venezuela for its leadership in negotiating resolution 73/127, establishing 24 April as the International Day for Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. It is symbolic that the situation that Venezuel…
We were unable to support resolution 2467 (2019), submitted by Germany.
The Russian Federation firmly condemns sexual violence in armed conflict. We have consistently advocated eradicating that abhorrent war crime. Any type of violence against civilians in wartime is absolutely unacceptable, and se…
Russia voted against resolution 71/248. We believe that the so-called International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011, o…
I would like to thank the German presidency for organizing today’s meeting and to express our profound gratitude to the participants and briefers for their information about various aspects of the fight against sexual violence and armed conflict.
This year marks a decade since the Security Council …
We thank Mr. Jeremiah Mamabolo, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the
African Union, and Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for their detailed briefings on the situation in Darfur.
To be honest, after hearing a number of our colleagues’ statements, we have the distinct…
First and foremost, I would like to thank you, Madam President, for presenting the outcome document of the recent High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation for adoption as resolution 73/291, and to join you in thanking the Argentine Republic for its holding of the Conference in…
We thank all of today’s briefers for their comprehensive overview of the situation on the political, military and humanitarian fronts in Yemen.
Russia and Yemen are linked by a tradition of decades of friendly relations imbued with mutual trust and multifaceted ties in many areas. We are deeply pai…
We welcome the personal participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, Colombia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, which we consider extremely important given the Secretary- General’s assessment that the peace process in Colombia is at a very critical stage.
At the risk of attr…
I thank you, Madam President, for organizing today’s open debate devoted to issues related to women’s participation in United Nations peacekeeping operations. We thank Secretary-General António Guterres, Major General Kristin Lund, Head of Mission of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization…
I would like to congratulate everyone here on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the oldest and one of the most authoritative bodies in the United Nations system. We are pleased that the ILO has continued to strengthen its position as a univers…
I will be very brief. It is just to clarify the situation of vaccines. I just wanted to say that the Government of Venezuela was ready to buy the vaccines but, as I said, the money that had been deposited in British and American banks was stolen from it.
It is very simple. First, the problem is cre…
You can turn your wonderful hourglass as many times as you wish, Mr. President, but I will take as much time as I need.
We are both surprised and yet not surprised that the Security Council convened an extraordinary meeting today with the participation of the Vice President of the United States, wh…
