You misunderstood me, Madam President. We stand ready to agree to the publication of a report that objectively reflects Russian concerns. Let me once again draw your attention to the fact that you are the ones preventing its dissemination. There is no other version of the report other than what the …
I, too, like my colleagues, wish to begin by expressing my deep condolences to all of those who suffered from the effects of the natural disasters in the United States, China and the Philippines.
I wish also to thank Ms. DiCarlo for her briefing.
Madam President, you suggested that we hold a Secur…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, for his analysis of the processes taking place in Afghanistan. We listened closely to the statements delivered by the Ambassador of the Islamic Repub…
We would like to thank today’s briefers, Mr. Michael Keating, Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral for Somalia, Mr. Francisco Madeira, Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia and Head of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), and Ms. Ph…
We thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his briefing and appreciate his views. We also thank Ms. Blakemore for her briefing and her emotional testimony.
Peacebuilding is unquestionably one of the main pillars of the United Nations, and peacekeepin…
We have listened carefully to the discussion today. We have just as much interest in it as the other member States of the Security Council. Many people today have asked us to reveal our plans for Idlib. We too would like the coalition to share its plans for Syria with us, but frankly neither the pla…
We thank the United Kingdom for convening today’s meeting. We also thank Mr. Martin Griffiths, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, for his detailed briefing on the work with the parties to the Yemeni conflict, including within the framework of the latest consultations in Geneva. Russia…
We are marking a sad date today, and we have just come from memorializing the unfortunate victims who died in that terrible tragedy. Across the street from the Russian Mission in New York are a police station and a fire station whose employees took part in rescuing people on 11 September 2001. Today…
At the outset, we would like to thank the Secretary-General for the information he provided and his assessment of the threat of corruption in situations of conflict. We also thank Mr. Prendergast for his briefing.
Yes, conflicts do provide scope for profit and many people do indeed profit from them…
We thank Mr. De Mistura and Mr. Ging for their briefings. The United States presidency has formulated the topic of today’s meeting in a curious way. It has been convened at the initiative of some Council members of the Security Council to consider
the situation in the Middle East, with an emphasis …
Unfortunately, I have not learned anything new from my British colleague’s further statement. We heard the same set of unsubstantiated accusations that we have heard in previous meetings. I would like to mention a couple of factual things. As I said about
consular access to Yulia and Sergei Skripal…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Ms. Bintou Keita for her briefing on the situation in Haiti and on the work of the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti. We are also grateful for the very useful and enlightening presentation on the achievements of the Mission.
We must acknowledge…
We listened attentively to the statement by our British colleague, who had promised to provide new information on the investigation of the so-called Skripal affair. We have also carefully studied the statement by Britain’s Prime Minister, Theresa May, to Parliament on the same topic. To be frank, we…
We thank Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu for her briefing.
The tenor of the discussion in the Security Council on the topic of the chemical demilitarization of Syria does not align with the actual state of affairs and derives from the persistent anti-Damascus attitudes of Western members of the Council. The Sy…
We thank Mr. Salamé for his objective briefing and support his efforts to implement the United Nations action plan approved by the Security Council and aimed at helping Libyans to unify their country and ensure its socioeconomic recovery. We realize that the differences among Libyans run too deep to…
At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Madam President, on the United States delegation’s assumption of the presidency of the Council, and to wish you every success.
However, I will begin my statement not with words of gratitude for organizing today’s meeting but rather by affirming our f…
I too would like to join in congratulating our British colleagues on their presidency in August. They had a difficult job and nonetheless handled it well. I also wish you and your team every success, Madam President. This too will be a complicated month. You effectively lose a week to the general de…
At the outset, we would like to welcome the presence here with us today of Prime Minister Aristide Gomes of Guinea-Bissau. We would also like to congratulate Mr. José Viegas Filho, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guine…
The Russian delegation voted in favour of resolution 2433 (2018), regarding the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), taking into account, first and foremost, the endorsement of the Lebanese side of the new version of the text. That is a key principle of any…
We are grateful to the United Kingdom presidency for organizing today’s meeting and would like to thank the Secretary-General, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Ms. Qadeem for their briefings.
The peaceful resolution of conflicts is enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations as both a founding p…
