The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2447 (2018), drafted by the delegations of the Netherlands and Côte d’Ivoire, on strengthening United Nations support in the areas of police, justice and corrections in peacekeeping operations.
The negotiations were not easy, especially in their …
I would like to thank Under-Secretary- General DiCarlo for her briefing on the latest report of the Secretary-General (S/2018/1089) on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2231 (2015), which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), on Iran’s nuclear programme. We also no…
We thank Ms. Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her briefing on the situation in Haiti and the work of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti.
In our view, the second of the series of quarterly reports (S/2018/1059) mandated by resolution 2410 (2018…
To be honest, we were startled by the statement made by the representative of Ukraine. He said almost nothing about the agenda item we discussed today and clearly simply had nothing to say. I will therefore outline and sum up what the Russian representative said, and I hope the Ukrainian representat…
We would like to thank the leadership of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for the report (see S/2018/569) on its activities. We have been closely following its work, including all the judicial proceedings under way.
Going on the report, since our previous briefing (see S/…
Our country has always welcomed States’ productive cooperation on issues relating to the world’s oceans, which has been made possible thanks to the establishment of a robust legal foundation. Our delegation therefore supports the Assembly’s draft resolutions on the law of the sea (A/73/L.35) and sus…
You, Sir, referred to rule 88 of the General Assembly’s rules of procedure, which states that after the President has announced the beginning of voting, no representative shall interrupt the voting except on a point of order. As I understand it, you had not announced the beginning of the voting, and…
I just briefly want to ascertain the point of order on which the delegations of Afghanistan and Germany have just spoken. The Russian delegation made a statement explaining our vote before the voting and requesting a decision on that vote. There was no violation of the order of the meeting, which is…
The Russian Federation attaches particular importance to the situation in Afghanistan and to the adoption by the General Assembly of draft resolution A/73/L.44, whose text must be based on a thorough analysis, take into account the current realities and reflect collective approaches by the internati…
We thank Mr. Marcel Amon-Tanoh, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, and
welcome his participation in this debate as President of the Security Council. We would also like to thank him for choosing the theme for today’s open debate, namely, “Cooperation between the United N…
We are pleased to welcome you, Mr. President, to the Security Council.
First and foremost, I would like to echo the words of condolence that my colleagues have expressed to the American people and to the family and friends of the forty-first President of the United States of America, the late Mr. G…
I would like to join others in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your assumption of the presidency of the Council for the month of December, and the Permanent Representative of China on his successful stewardship of the Council last month. We thank Mr. Khan for his first report to the Council (s…
Russia and the countries of the Middle East are linked by many decades of friendship and constructive, mutually beneficial cooperation. Our relations have withstood the test of time. We are genuinely interested in restoring stability in the region as soon as possible. However, the reality today is s…
We thank Ms. Ghelani for her briefing.
As the Council is aware, the capital of Kazakhstan just hosted the eleventh international meeting in the framework of the Astana process, in which the issues of progress on a political settlement based on the groundwork laid in Geneva and Sochi, further improv…
Many interesting things have been said, and I have decided to share our views on them after all, although of course a lot of them are not worth discussing and a lot are very predictable. First of all, we once again feel we were absolutely justified in our proposal to hold a meeting under a different…
We regret the result of the vote. However, I would like to emphasize that no one can prevent Russia, as a permanent member of the Security Council, from
raising issues in the Council that we consider important, and doing it under agenda items that those issues relate to. This vote will have no effe…
In calling for this extraordinary meeting of the Security Council, Russia bases its position on the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, in which rule 2 clearly states that the President shall call a meeting of the Security Council at the request of any member of the Council at any time to cons…
We make this statement in explanation of position after the adoption of resolution 73/15, entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe” (see A/73/PV.39).
The Russian Federation supports resolution 73/15 and, in general, is in favour of developing cooperation between th…
We thank Special Envoy Michel Kafando for his briefing on the evolving situation in Burundi. We listened with grateful interest to the report by Ambassador Jürg Lauber of Sweden, in his capacity as Chair of the Burundi country configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), following his trip t…
We thank the Chinese presidency for organizing today’s discussion on strengthening peacekeeping operations in Africa.
I would first like to join my colleagues in expressing our condolences in connection with the deaths of the Malawian and Tanzanian peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Con…
