For yet another consecutive year, the General Assembly has before it the draft resolution under consideration today (A/72/L.55). Its authors continually state that the motive for the initiative is concern for the needs of those who have lost their homes and means of survival as a result of armed con…
The Russian Federation joined the consensus on today’s adoption of resolution 72/279. We are grateful to the facilitators of the resolution for their work during the negotiation process. We welcome the agreements reached among the Member States on modernizing the United Nations Development Assistanc…
The Russian delegation abstained in the voting on resolution 2418 (2018), on extending sanctions against South Sudan.
We are concerned by the security situation in the country and by the fact that, despite the December 2017 agreement, there has been continuing fighting in the country. We call on th…
We thank Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov for his briefing.
We note with regret that in addition to the tragic events of recent days in the occupied Palestinian territories, on 29 May there was once again a sharp escalation in armed activity on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Fig…
I will be very brief. As I said today, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister has already hinted at the
version that it will put out about the murder of the unfortunate journalist Arkady Babchenko. I believe that Ukraine’s justice system, whose value we are familiar with, will no doubt discover a trail lea…
I have listened attentively to my colleagues, and now I would like to ask them to listen to me and be patient. It has been some time since we discussed Ukraine and I am therefore doubly grateful to the Polish presidency for taking this initiative. I would also like to thank Ms. DiCarlo, Ms. Mueller …
We thank Special Envoy Michel Kafando for his briefing on the constitutional referendum held in Burundi and the development of the situation there. We have taken note of the report of Mr. Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, in his capacity as Chair of the Buru…
We would like to thank the delegations of the Netherlands, Sweden, Kuwait and Côte d’Ivoire for preparing the text of resolution 2417 (2018). We are particularly grateful to our Dutch colleagues for coordinating it and for facilitating its agreement. We have noted our partners’ professionalism and c…
We thank Ms. Bintou Keita, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for her very informative briefing. We listened to the statement delivered by the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations, Мr. Joáo Vale de Almeida, with interest.
The African view of the p…
We thank the Polish presidency for organizing today’s meeting on the problem of the protection of civilians in armed conflict, a very important issue that we should be addressing. We would also like to thank Secretary-General António Guterres, Mr. Yves Daccord, Director-General of the International …
We would first like to thank the delegation of Mexico for its efforts in facilitating agreement on the text of draft resolution A/72/L.54, on interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Our delegation has become a sponsor of this important dr…
We thank Special Representative Ghassan Salamé for his objective briefing. We also thank Mr. Olof Skoog, Permanent Representative of Sweden, for his report on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) concerning Libya and, more generally, for his responsible leadership…
The Russian delegation would like to welcome today’s discussion and thank our Polish colleagues for this initiative. We are also grateful to today’s briefers, Ms. Viotti and Judges Owada and Meron, for their opinions.
There is no question that the topic of today’s meeting is important and timely. I…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Tayé-Brook Zerihoun; Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; and Mr. Mauro Vieira, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations, in his capacity as Chair of the Guinea-Bissau configur…
We thank Mr. De Mistura for his briefing. We can see that his personal participation in the meeting on Syria in Astana enabled him to make it a substantive one. We appreciated his call for active diplomacy, which Russia has advocated for from the very beginning. We continue to make significant effor…
I would like to begin by expressing my condolences to the families of the Palestinians who were killed in the Gaza Strip and wishing a speedy recovery to the wounded. We mourn together with the Palestinian people.
We are grateful to Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov for his substantive briefing…
We thank the representative of the Secretary- General and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, and his team for their work and objective assessment of the situation in Kosovo. The Mission continues to play an important role in the province. We also ac…
The Security Council mission to Myanmar and Bangladesh was very timely and useful. Council members were able to personally assess the situation in Rakhine state and its surroundings, as well as the efforts that have been made to stabilize the situation. We would like to thank the authorities of Bang…
The Russian Federation intends to vote against draft resolution A/72/L.51, entitled “Towards a Global Pact for the Environment”, introduced by France.
We would like to draw the Assembly’s attention to the process of putting together the draft resolution, which
was not a constructive one. We and a …
We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Jean-Pierre Lacroix for his assessment of the current state of United Nations peacekeeping. We also thank the Force Commanders of the military components of the United Nations peacekeeping operations in Darfur, Mali and South Sudan for the updated brie…
