We thank Mr. Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his comprehensive and objective briefing.
The Middle East is going through a difficult period in its history, marked by many old and new crises. The conflicts in Syria and Yemen still need to be resolved. Political an…
We thank Mr. Llorentty Solíz, Permanent Representative of Bolivia, in his capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004), for his briefing on the Committee’s work. We thank the Ambassador of Bolivia and his delegation for their stewardship of this subsidiary body o…
I would like to thank Assistant Secretary- General Zerihoun for his briefing. We in the Russian Federation are deeply concerned about the tragic events in the Gaza Strip. We are alarmed about the reports of an increase in the number of victims and casualties resulting from the Israeli army’s efforts…
We thank Mr. Salamé for his briefing. We very much appreciate his professionalism and diligent efforts in the work of restoring the Libyan State. We support the steps taken by the United Nations to help to end the conflict in Libya on the basis of the Special Representative’s action plan. In that re…
The Russian Federation understands the critical importance of halting Pyongyang’s nuclear and
missile programmes, which are unacceptable to us. The launch of ballistic missiles without warning from North Korean territory poses tremendous risks to maritime and air transit in the region and a serious…
We are very grateful to the briefers, Mr. Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary- General, Mr. Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Mr. Umarov, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan, for their thorough analysis of the evolving situation…
We are grateful to the Secretary-General for preparing the new semi-annual report (S/2017/1030) on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), and we would like to thank Mr. Feltman for his briefing. We note the effective work done by Ambassador Cardi, the Permanent Representative of Italy, the Co…
When the Security Council established a regime for cross-border supplies of humanitarian aid through the United Nations, we all assumed that it was a temporary emergency measure that perforce infringed on Syria’s sovereignty. It was introduced in 2014 when the armed conflict was in an acute phase du…
I thank the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, for his substantive briefing. We fully support the work of Mr. Mladenov as an objective broker.
We in Moscow we are very carefully following the development of the situation on the Israeli-Pales…
We would like to share our thoughts with you, Mr. President, on the report of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (see S/2017/922, annex). In our opinion, of all the reports Mr. Inzko has submitted to the Security Council since 2009, this is the most biased. To a lesser extent, the do…
I thank the delegation of Italy for organizing today’s meeting in an open format, which allows us to bring the position of Russia on the issue before us home to all Member States.
We are grateful to Ms. Nakamitsu and Mr. Mulet for their briefings.
Russia strongly condemns the use of chemical weapo…
We would like to extend our gratitude to the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Mr. Nickolay Mladnenov, for the thorough briefing and for the efforts that he has undertaken.
We are deeply troubled by the escalation of tension in Palestinian-Israeli relations. We f…
The Russian Federation supported resolution 2368 (2017), on sanctions related to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Al-Qaida. Taking into account the unprecedented magnitude and scale of the threats to international relations from those groups, we concur with our colleagues from the…
Mr. President, I would like to thank you for convening today’s meeting and for your responsible leadership of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session. We are grateful to you for decision 71/553, on the rollover of the consideration of Security Council reform to the seventy-second session. …
I would like to thank my American colleague Ambassador Haley for her comments. We too propose that we work together. The point of my statement was that we can see a meaningful way out of the situation on the Korean peninsula only by combining regional and international forces. It is clearly stated i…
We thank Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča for his briefing on the launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of a ballistic missile.
The situation requires thorough clarification and investigation. The ballistic trajectory of the missile was confirmed and registered on the Russia…
We would like to express our gratitude to the Secretary-General for preparing the latest biannual report (S/2017/515) on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). We note the professional work of Mr. Cardi, Permanent Representative of Italy and Security Council Facilitator for the implementation…
We welcome you, Mr. President, in your capacity as Chair of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). We listened with great interest to your statement and the briefings by Ms. Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, and Mr. Ballard, re…
We are grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Mr. Tadamichi Yamamoto, for his comprehensive analysis of the situation in Afghanistan. We listened with interest to the statement made by the Permanent Re…
We would like to thank Mr. Mladenov,
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General; His Excellency Mr. Aboul-Gheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States; and Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, member of The Elders, for their detailed briefing…
