We welcome you, Sir, as President of the Security Council, and we thank you for taking the initiative to convene today’s meeting. We also thank Mr. Fedotov and Mrs. Ukonga for their briefings.
We share the concerns about the expansion of international criminal groups’ activities, including on the h…
I welcome you, Mr. President, to New York. We are happy to see you presiding over the Security Council. This is the first meeting of the Council under the presidency of Equatorial Guinea in the month of February. We are grateful to you, Sir, for having honoured us with your presence on this importan…
My colleagues thanked you during the consultations, Mr. President, while I reserved for myself the privilege of doing so in an open format. But of course I was upstaged by my friend the representative of France, who in his usual gallant manner congratulated you twice.
However, I want to congratulat…
We thank Mark Lowcock for his briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria.
We share concerns about the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone — a territory that is under the de facto control of fighters from the Al-Nusra Front alliance with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham owing to the fact that the…
The Russian Federation expects that the Security Council’s adoption of resolution 2453 (2019) will facilitate the implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus to create security conditions conducive to a settlement on the island.
A Cyprus settlement is one of the…
I understand that this discussion has dragged on, and I do not want to prolong it. This is not a right of reply. I simply want to make one comment that I believe worth stating.
As I mentioned today, United States Secretary of State Pompeo claimed that his country’s position is shared by the majorit…
I was not going to speak again either. However, the response by the representative of the United States, and by extension whatever constituency he is representing, has forced me to take the floor again.
For the information of the members of the Security Council, Russia, unlike the United States, ha…
Since the representative of Germany devoted a major part of his statement to speaking specifically to me, I would like to make a few comments.
The use of preventive diplomacy is excellent. It is of course better to prevent a crisis than to resolve
it. However, putting forward an absurd eight-day u…
We thank Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo for her briefing.
We have no doubt that today’s meeting was called for by the United States delegation for the sole purpose of continuing to destabilize the situation in Venezuela by imposing its own approaches and methods to resolve the problems that the country has r…
The Russian Federation cannot support the attempt of our American colleagues to conduct a discussion of the situation in Venezuela. Generally speaking, it is a gross abuse of the prerogatives of one member of the Security Council — more importantly, a permanent member — to introduce issues formulate…
We would like to thank all the briefers at today’s meeting.
The position of the Russian Federation with regard to the security impacts of climate change is well known. We deem it excessive, and even counterproductive, to consider climate change in the Security Council, whose aim under the Charter o…
We are pleased to see you presiding over the Security Council, Sir, and it is an honour to have you conducting today’s meeting. We also welcome Mr. Carlos Holmes Trujillo García, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, and Mr. Emilio José Archila, High Counsellor for Post-Conflict, to today’s meet…
We thank Mr. Mladenov for his informative briefing on events in the Middle East and the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Today, as violent conflicts — in Syria, Yemen and Libya — have continued to break out in the Middle East and North Africa, the lack of progress in resolving the…
We would like to thank Mr. Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for his detailed and objective briefing. Russia supports the steps taken under the auspices of the United Nations to get results in the work of unifying Libya and stabilizing its internal political situation,…
We have taken note the briefing of Ms. Joanna Wronecka, Permanent Representative of Poland, on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1591 (2005) concerning the Sudan.
We note the overall positive trend in the military and political situation and the settlement of the conflict…
We welcome Ms. Kamissa Camara, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali, to today’s meeting, and thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, for her briefing.
We are pleased that on the political front, the situation in Mali…
We have listened attentively — extremely attentively, even — to today’s briefers, and we thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Mr. Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo, Ms. Fatima Mohammed, Mr. Joseph Malanji, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Zambia, and Monseigneur Utembi for their information.
We have taken note of the …
We thank Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, for the information he has provided. We would like to assure him once again that Russia supports his personal efforts and the activities of his Office in resolving regional crises and iss…
Since this is the first time I have taken the floor in the Council this year, I would like to congratulate you, Sir, on the Dominican Republic’s presidency for this month. We are sure you will carry out your duties with distinction.
We are grateful to Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secr…
I have asked for the floor to speak about draft resolution III, entitled “Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine”.
The draft resolution before the Assembly is one of a series of so-called country-specific resolutions of the Third Committee…
