I thank the President of the General Assembly for convening today’s meeting. The issue of reform of the Security Council is one of the most important and complex items on the agenda of our global Organization, owing to the fact that under the Charter of the United Nations, the Council has the primar…
We thank Mr. De Mistura for his briefing and his long service in his position.
Possibly for the first time in the history of the Syrian crisis, today an overwhelming majority of the members of the Security Council have made the important admission that the situation in Syria is really continuing to…
We are grateful to Mr. Mladenov for his briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. That is the way the agenda item we developed together is written, so let us abide by it.
We deplore the fact that the status quo in the occupied Palestinian territories, the epi…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix, Mr. Smaїl Chergui, the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, and Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN-Women, for their detailed information about their joint visit to South Sudan.
The Russian Federation has consiste…
We would like to thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Mr. Mark Lowcock, Mr. David Beasley and Ms. Rasha Jarhum for their briefings.
We first want to note the reduction of violence around the Yemeni port of Al-Hudaydah. We believe it is essential to work to establish a full, countrywide cessation of hostilit…
We welcome the convening of today’s General Assembly meeting on the implementation of United Nations resolutions and the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly.
We would like to congratulate the Permanent Representatives of Jordan and Slovakia on their appointment to co-chair the Ad Hoc…
We thank Under-Secretary-General Jean- Pierre Lacroix for his informative briefing. The African vision for resolving the issues in the region, as outlined by Mr. Maman Sidikou, the Permanent Secretary of the Joint Force of the Group of Five for the Sahel, and Mr. Pierre Buyoya, High Representative o…
We have just supported a so-called technical extension of the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic for one month. Today the Council has maintained unity on this issue, which is very encouraging. For that to continue to be the…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of Mr. Ivica Dačić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Serbia, and we share the serious concerns he has expressed about the situation in Kosovo. We once again listened attentively to Ms. Vlora Çitaku. We th…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate both
the leadership and the people of Eritrea on the lifting of the Security Council’s sanctions. We have long said that the international restrictions against Eritrea were irrelevant. Over all these years no convincing evidence has been produced for Asma…
We thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her thorough briefing on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the preparations for the
elections to be held on 23 December. We also take note of the statement by Ms. Joséphine Mbela.
We continue…
Historically, Iraq has been an important factor for stability in the Middle East. Russia supports constructive steps aimed at strengthening Iraq’s domestic political situation and ensuring the country’s security and socioeconomic development in full respect for its sovereignty, independence and terr…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, and the Chinese presidency for organizing today’s
discussion on issues related to strengthening the principles of multilateralism. The proposed theme is highly relevant, as it enables us to critically take stock of the state of international relations and …
The Russian delegation thanks Mr. Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for his presentation of the report (see A/73/315) on the Agency’s work. Our country was present at the Agency’s creation. We have always supported it, and we value its activities during…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, and the Chinese delegation for convening today’s important meeting, and Mr. Salamé for his objective briefing.
Mr. Salamé knows that Russia very much appreciates his efforts and his honest and professional attitude to his work. We know how much he has done…
We thank you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting on policing issues in United Nations peacekeeping operations and special political missions. We are grateful to Mr. Alexander Zouev, Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions, and the Police Commissioners of the M…
Regrettably, we have concluded that the quality of the reports of the High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina gets worse every time. It is clear that Mr. Inzko is trying to tailor his assessments of what is going on in the country according to his …
The Russian Federation will vote in favour of the draft resolution (S/2018/989) extending the mandate of the European Union-led Operation Althea for peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That is because the sponsors took into account our principled considerations, if only at the very last moment.…
We were unable to support resolution 2441 (2018), drafted by the United Kingdom. No account was taken of our principled and duly justified comments. The authors incorporated into the resolution a provision specifying sexual and gender-based violence as a separate criterion for sanctions, although su…
We thank Mrs. Nakamitsu for her briefing.
For a long time now, some Western States have made Syria’s so-called chemical dossier, which the Security Council considers every month, into a tool for putting pressure on the authorities in Damascus — a tool that destroys the foundations of international …
