The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2451 (2018) on Yemen, which was submitted by the United Kingdom, based on the fact that it seeks to strengthen the agreements reached in Sweden through the mediation work of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Mr. Martin Griffith…
We thank Mr. Tayé-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, and Ambassador Mauro Vieira, Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission, for their briefings.
The developments in Guinea-Bissau give abundant cause for concern. We regret the fact that…
The Russian Federation is submitting for the General Assembly’s consideration draft resolution A/73/L.70 in support of the Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, also known as the In…
The Russian delegation supported resolution 73/212 but would nevertheless like to comment on paragraph 12, in which the General Assembly expresses
“its appreciation for the efforts made by the host country, and expects that the issues raised at the meetings of the Committee will be resolved in a sp…
We thank the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Sahel, Mr. Ibrahim Thiaw; the Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, our colleague the Permanent Representative of Romania, Mr. Ion Jinga; and all the other briefers for their interesting presentations.
We cannot fail to agree with the br…
We thank Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura for his briefing on the state of the political situation in Syria.
On 18 December there was an important breakthrough in that area in Geneva. It is a pity that a number of members of the Security Council have preferred not to notice it. After intense, pains…
We thank the Côte d’Ivoire presidency for taking the initiative to convene this briefing of the Council on the very topical issue of combating drug trafficking in West Africa. We also thank Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), for his particip…
We thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his detailed briefing. We also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representatives of Israel and of Lebanon in today’s meeting.
At the outset, we would like to point out that the Russian Federation ha…
The Russian Federation supports the
adoption of the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration. This compromise document covers many aspects of international migration, including its humanitarian dimensions, development issues, human rights and the fight against crime. We hope that the …
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix and Special Representative Pramila Patten for their information on the progress of the settlement in South Sudan. We took note of the briefing
by Ambassador Wronecka, Permanent Representative of Poland and Chair of the Committee established purs…
Today’s General Assembly meeting is dedicated to a truly historic event. Seventy years ago, States adopted a document that shaped the entire modern system for the promotion and protection of human rights.
Nazism had just gone down to historic defeat, along with the human-hating ideology of national…
We would like to thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing on developments in the Middle East. The situation in this region plagued by crises old and new remains problematic and demands considerable collective efforts, including by the Security Council. The only way we can make progress on stabilizing and…
We thank Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), for his analysis of the processes currently under way in Afghanistan. We are also grateful for the briefings by Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Direc…
We would first like to thank our colleagues from Côte d’Ivoire for their principled position and for convening an urgent meeting of the Security Council at the request of Serbia and Russia in connection with the gross violation of resolution 1244 (1999), as a result of
the Pristina Assembly’s adopt…
The Russian Federation is an active participant in the area of international cooperation
for emergency humanitarian assistance. We regularly provide support to the main United Nations humanitarian agencies and deploy rescue teams of qualified specialists to bring humanitarian assistance to areas af…
We are grateful to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General, Martin Griffiths, for his detailed briefing on the recent round of intra-Yemeni consultations held in Sweden, as well as to Under- Secretary-General Mark Lowcock for his overview of the humanitarian situation in the Republic of Yemen. We…
We have studied the twenty-eighth report of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the investigation of the situation in Darfur. We discovered two lines in paragraph 22 with a puzzling sentence about some apparently significant progress in the investigation. That was all there w…
We would like to thank Mr. Lowcock for his briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria.
We would first like to comment on the Council’s adoption just now of resolution 2449 (2018), extending the mandate for the cross-border delivery of humanitarian assistance into Syria. Our position on that no…
We thank Mr. François Louncény Fall, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Ms. Reena Ghelani for their information on the situation in the Central African subregion.
We firmly believe that the approach that is fundamental to effective crisis prevention and conflict resolution in Afri…
The Russian Federation was unable to support resolution 2448 (2018), proposed by our French colleagues to extend the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic. We abstained not because we do not support the Mission or disagree wit…
