I too would like to express our sincere wishes for the success and future professional achievements of Ambassador Pierce. She has done a great deal personally and as a diplomat to ensure the productive work of the Security Council. We will certainly miss her.
We also wish to thank Special Envoy Gr…
We would like to thank Special Envoy Griffiths for his briefing on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. We also thank Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs a, for his briefing. Russia very much commends the courageous efforts of all humanitarian agencies wo…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, and the Director of the Coordination Division of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Raj Rajasingham, for their briefings on the political and humanitarian situation in Yemen. We hig…
The Russian Federation attaches particular importance to the careful consideration of the situation in Afghanistan. I listened with great attention and respect to the statement by the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan. Russia and Afghanistan enjoy friendly relations that nothing can undermine.…
In the context of the international efforts to resolve the issue of the Western Sahara, we would like to once again affirm the Russian Federation’s well- known and consistent position.
We support a balanced and unbiased approach to the issue, with direct negotiations between Morocco and the Frente …
The Russian Federation supported the adoption of resolution 2491 (2019), which extends the mandate of the special inspection regime on the high seas off the coast of Libya. We have always maintained a constructive attitude to this Security Council initiative, which resulted in the creation of specia…
We deeply thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ghassan Salamé for his detailed and worrisome briefing about the military and political situation in Libya.
We thank Ambassador Schulz for his update on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011) conce…
First of all, we thank Ms. Jamila Afghani for her frank briefing. We would say to her that we know very well that by helping women, we are helping Afghanistan as a whole.
We also thank our brave United Nations women at the very helm of the Organization — Deputy Secretary- General Amina Mohammed and…
The Russian Federation thanks the delegations of Kuwait and the United States for having organized the Security Council’s regional visit to Kuwait City and Baghdad. We underscore the importance and timely nature of this kind of visit, as well as the efforts made by the leadership of Kuwait and Iraq …
First of all, Sir, we very much appreciate your work as President of the Security Council, as well as the efforts of the entire Kuwaiti team. We also thank Special Envoy Pedersen for his briefing. We share the views he expressed and support his efforts to achieve a lasting settlement in Syria. It is…
I would just like to correct my British colleague. All the answers to her questions are contained in Major General Bakin’s statement. She simply needs to read and listen to it again thoroughly. It contains exhaustive answers, including with regard to humanitarian matters.
We would like to thank Mr. Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing on the situation in the Palestinian occupied territories.
Resolving the Palestinian question and achieving a comprehensive Middle East settlement based on Security Council resolutions must r…
We are grateful to you, Mr. President, for convening today’s meeting. We thank Special Representative Yamamoto for his briefing and his analysis of the processes currently unfolding in Afghanistan. We also listened carefully to the statements by Mrs. Raz, the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan,…
We thank Mr. Ghassan Salamé, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Mr. Smaïl Chergui, the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, for their detailed briefings. We support Mr. Salamé’s work and will continue to help him. We want to affirm to Mr. Chergui that the Russian …
We would like to thank Ms. Hennis- Plasschaert, the Special Representative of the Secretary- General, for her detailed and objective briefing. The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), which she heads, is playing an important role in assisting the Iraqi authorities in dealing with a ra…
We thank our briefers, Special Envoy Martin Griffiths and Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock. We are grateful to UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore for her worrisome assessment and to the Permanent Representative of Peru for organizing the important visit by the Committee established pursuan…
The Russian Federation welcomes and supports the efforts of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General, Mr. Köhler, including through his initiative to hold round-table talks in Geneva.
For the first time in many years, a chance has emerged for achieving a just and mutually acceptable solution to …
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Ursula Mueller for her briefing. We deeply appreciate the selfless and courageous work of the humanitarian workers in Syria and other hotbeds of conflict. We are also thank Ms. Nujeen Mustapha for telling us her own story, one that is both tragic and heroic and t…
We thank all of today’s briefers for their comprehensive overview of the situation on the political, military and humanitarian fronts in Yemen.
Russia and Yemen are linked by a tradition of decades of friendly relations imbued with mutual trust and multifaceted ties in many areas. We are deeply pai…
Russia supported the adoption of resolution 2464 (2019), which renews the mandate of the Panel of Experts on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We hope that in their future work the Experts will be strictly guided by the principles of impartiality and objectivity and operate solely through t…
