We would like to thank Under-Secretaries- General Rosemary DiCarlo and Jean-Pierre Lacroix for their informative briefings on the situation in the Syrian Golan. We believe it is essential to highlight the following points.
In the summer of 2018, as a result of measures taken by the Syrian Governmen…
We thank Mr. Mladenov for his informative briefing on the situation in the Middle East and the occupied Palestinian territories, and on the state of Palestinian-Israeli relations. The Special Coordinator makes it very clear that negative trends have the upper hand today with regard to a settlement i…
We thank Ambassador Djani, Permanent Representative of Indonesia, for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). We would like to thank Ambassador Djani and his team for their conscientious stewardship of this subsidiary body of the Security Council. We…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of resolution 2460 (2019) just adopted by the Security Council to extend the mandate the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. We believe that the United Nations Mission has an important role in coordinating international humanitarian assistance to …
We thank Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under- Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, for his detailed briefing. We also welcome the participation of the Permanent Representatives of Israel and of Lebanon in today’s meeting.
At the outset, we would like to point out that the Russian Federation ha…
We would like to thank Mr. Mladenov for his briefing on developments in the Middle East. The situation in this region plagued by crises old and new remains problematic and demands considerable collective efforts, including by the Security Council. The only way we can make progress on stabilizing and…
Russia and the countries of the Middle East are linked by many decades of friendship and constructive, mutually beneficial cooperation. Our relations have withstood the test of time. We are genuinely interested in restoring stability in the region as soon as possible. However, the reality today is s…
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…
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…
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…
First of all, of course, we want to express our sincere condolences to the Governments and the peoples of the United States and Indonesia in the wake of their recent tragedies.
We thank Mr. Lowcock for his comprehensive briefing. We very much appreciate the work of United Nations humanitarian agenc…
We would like to congratulate the delegation of Bolivia on the start of its presidency of the Security Council and to note the timeliness of today’s joint briefing on three of its important subsidiary bodies. We thank the briefers, all of whom clearly identified the tasks facing the Council and the …
We thank the delegation of the United Kingdom for having taken this initiative and the United States delegation for convening today’s important meeting so promptly. We are grateful to Mr. Lowcock for his briefing on the humanitarian situation in Yemen, which we found extremely alarming.
We have a l…
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…
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 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…
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 Russian Federation could not support resolution 2414 (2018). The main problem was that the process of drafting and agreeing the decision was neither transparent nor consultative. We note, unfortunately, that none of the principled and properly justified comments that we repeatedly directed to th…
