Russia supported the adoption of resolution 2464 (2019), which renews the mandate of the Panel of Experts on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We hope that in their future work the Experts will be strictly guided by the principles of impartiality and objectivity and operate solely through t…
I have an innovative idea about the Thuringian hourglass. Lay the sand watch flat when I am speaking.
(spoke in Russian)
We welcome the High Commissioner for Refugees and thank him for his briefing. We deeply appreciate the effective work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for R…
As you suggested, Mr. President, we will dissolve all our welcomes and diplomatic formalities in the sand of the Thuringian hourglass and get right down to business.
We have very mixed feelings about the situation in Haiti. On the one hand, we are seeing increasingly
optimistic assessments of the …
I would first like to say how pleased we are to see you, Minister, presiding over our meeting, and since I have not yet had the opportunity to do so, I would like to congratulate Germany on its assumption of the presidency of the Council for April and to wish it every success. We are also grateful t…
We welcome you, Sir, and Germany, in your capacity as President of the Council, and we thank France for a very productive presidency in March. We are also grateful to our briefers, Mr. Lowcock, Mr. Maurer and Ms. Modirzadeh, for their very interesting comments.
The formulation of a body of rules re…
We welcome Prime Minister Soumeylou Maïga of Mali to today’s meeting and thank Secretary- General Guterres for his briefing.
At the outset, we would like to express our condolences to the Government and the people of Mali regarding the horrific tragedy in the village of Ogossagou, where more than 1…
It is late, so I will not take much of the Council members’ time. I simply wish to comment on the statement made by the representative of Ukraine.
He once again told the old tall tale about Russian aggression, but among other things he accused my country of violating the International Convention fo…
We are grateful to the delegation of France, and to Mr. Le Drian personally, for organizing this
meeting on combating the financing of terrorism. The Security Council has been actively working on this matter since the beginning of the year. Following the consideration of the current threats in the …
We thank Ms. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary- General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and Mr. Rajasingham, Director of the Coordination Division of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, for their briefings.
There have been major changes recently in the military and political si…
We would like to thank Under-Secretaries- General Rosemary DiCarlo and Jean-Pierre Lacroix for their informative briefings on the situation in the Syrian Golan. We believe it is essential to highlight the following points.
In the summer of 2018, as a result of measures taken by the Syrian Governmen…
I would just like to say a few words,
speaking in French so as not to disrupt the francophone atmosphere of this meeting. On behalf of us all, I would like to pay tribute to our French friends for their excellent logistical support and assistance throughout the mission. The United Nations experts, …
We thank Mr. Mladenov for his informative briefing on the situation in the Middle East and the occupied Palestinian territories, and on the state of Palestinian-Israeli relations. The Special Coordinator makes it very clear that negative trends have the upper hand today with regard to a settlement i…
We are grateful to Mr. Said Djinnit, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region, for his comprehensive briefing. We thank him for his great personal contribution to the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and…
We thank Ambassador Djani, Permanent Representative of Indonesia, for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). We would like to thank Ambassador Djani and his team for their conscientious stewardship of this subsidiary body of the Security Council. We…
First of all, like my colleagues before me, I would like to express my condolences to the Government and the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in connection with the railway disaster in Kasai province, as well as to the African States affected by Cyclone Idai. We also mourn the victims …
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2459 (2019), on the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. However, we want to emphasize that we fully support the activities of the Blue Helmets deployed there, as they are significantly contributing to the…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2460 (2019) just adopted by the Security Council to extend the mandate the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. We believe that the United Nations Mission has an important role in coordinating international humanitarian assistance to …
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Ms. Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and thank her for her briefing on cooperation between the United Nations and one of the world’s largest regional organizations.
Just the othe…
We too would like to start by expressing our deepest condolences to our Ethiopian friends in connection with the tragic crash of an Ethiopian Airlines plane and the resulting death toll of many people from a number of countries, including personnel from various entities in the United Nations system.…
I would first like to congratulate you personally, Madam President, and all the women staff members of the United Nations Secretariat and Permanent Missions accredited to the United Nations, on International Women’s Day. It is in honour of this wonderful holiday that my colleagues have brought you f…
