We thank Mr. Ging for his briefing.
The situation has stabilized in many areas in Syria. The authorities are creating the conditions for a dignified and safe return of refugees and internally displaced persons. The Syrian Government has called on its citizens to come home and participate in rebuild…
We thank the Secretary-General, Ms. Blanchett and Mr. Gettu for their briefings on the situation in Myanmar.
For our part, we consistently advocate a balanced and non-confrontational approach when discussing the situation in this country and when looking for ways to normalize the situation in Rakhi…
We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Zerrougui, for the updated information on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the implementation of the December political agreement and the election preparations. We also note the briefings delivered by the Preside…
We are grateful for the convening of today’s briefing. We thank Mr. Voronkov and Ms. Coninsx for their detailed analysis of the situation with regard to combating the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS). We note the active efforts of the bodies that they head in preparing the most recent repor…
We would like to thank Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Michel Kafando for his briefing on the developing situation in the country. We regret that, unfortunately, today the Security Council could not listen to the Permanent Representative of Switzerland, Mr. Jürg Lauber, Chair of the country-s…
We would like to thank you personally, Madam President, and the United Kingdom delegation for convening today’s meeting. We are grateful to Mr. Griffiths, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-
General, for his comprehensive report on the efforts to bring the positions of the parties to the conflict i…
We are grateful to Mr. Lowcock and Ms. Gamba for their briefings.
The facts on the ground attest to improvements in the situation in Syria, including on the humanitarian front. With the evacuation of residents of Fo’ah and Kafraya, there are no more besieged areas left in the country. As the risks …
We thank Ms. Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, for her update on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as on the implementation of the political agreement of 31 December 2016 and the country’s preparations for elections.
We have taken not…
I would first like to welcome Vice-President Óscar Naranjo of Colombia to the Chamber today and to thank Special Representative Jean Arnault for his informative briefing.
The Security Council has met today to discuss the situation in Colombia a year after the adoption of resolution 2366 (2017) (see…
We thank Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his report.
Russia supports building up the international efforts to resolve crisis situations, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. That vast region, which stretches from the borders of Lebanon …
The Russian Federation joined the consensus on the adoption of resolution 72/305, on the review of the implementation of resolution 68/1, on the strengthening of the Economic and Social Council. Strengthening the Council’s structure and improving its work are important elements in the general effort…
We would like to thank Ms. Sahle-Work Zewde, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Smaїl Chergui, African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, for their substantive briefings. We share the attitude of the Secretary-General to the development and strengthening of the coop…
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2428 (2018), on extending the sanctions on South Sudan. We are not trying to whitewash the situation in the country. We know that various parties continue to violate the ceasefire regime there and that the humanitarian situation is still s…
We thank Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, as well as today’s briefers, Mr. Hassan Janabi, Minister of Water Resources of Iraq, and Ms. Hindou Ibrahim, the representative of the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change. We would like to welcome President Waqa of Nauru and to …
First of all, we would like to welcome you, Madam, in presiding over this briefing of the Security Council, and to thank you for organizing it. We listened with interest to the briefers, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Ms. Bineta Diop, African Union Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Secu…
We are pleased to welcome you, Mr. Prime Minister, as you preside over the Security Council today, and would like to thank our Swedish partners for their initiative in organizing today’s meeting. We wish you a successful and productive presidency of the Security Council for July, and we are sure tha…
From the very beginning, our delegation has opposed the inclusion of the concept of the responsibility to protect as an item on the General Assembly’s agenda at this session, a decision that we believe is mistaken. I would like to briefly recall the history surrounding the issue.
The only recognize…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, for the oral technical decision 72/557, on rolling over the item under consideration, on reform of the Security Council, to the seventy-third session of the General Assembly.
The issue of Security Council reform is one of the most important on the Organization…
The Russian Federation is in favour of a balanced and integrated approach to countering
terrorism, which, in our view, should be reflected in the General Assembly resolution on the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy Review. Faced with a global terrorist threat, we believe it is necess…
We thank the Secretary-General for his comprehensive report (A/72/815) on measures to intensify cooperation in order to counter the spread of HIV and provide social and medical support to those living with the virus.
The Russian Federation is firmly committed to the goals and principles of the 2016…
