We support the initiative to extend for a further year the special control regime on the high seas off the coast of Libya, established under resolution 2292 (2016), with the objective of ensuring respect for the Security Council’s arms embargo. Those measures apply to flows both into Libya and out o…
Russia supported today’s adoption of the new resolution 2356 (2017), concerning sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The resolution we have just adopted demands that Pyongyang stop its inappropriate behaviour and submit to the legitimate demands of the international community. Mis…
We are grateful to Mr. O’Brien for his briefing. We highly value the work being done conscientiously by humanitarian workers in fulfilment of their mandate.
As a result of the memorandum of understanding concluded in Astana on 4 May on the de-escalation zones, the intensity of the armed clashes in …
We listened carefully to Special Representative Kubiš’ briefing. We welcome the active and dynamic efforts made by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
Russia is tied to Iraq historically. Because of our friendship, we support with political and practical steps those of the Iraqi…
We listened very carefully to the briefing by the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko. We also thoroughly reviewed his report (S/2017/379, annex) and must say once again, as was the case on other occasions, that the document does not provide an objective narrative of t…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the Minister of Justice of Serbia, Ms. Nela Kuburović, and share the serious concerns she has expressed with regard to the state of affairs in Kosovo. We are also grateful to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Zahir Tanin, and …
The Russian Federation voted against the draft resolution (S/2017/315) on the chemical weapons incident in Khan Shaykhun on 4 April. That outcome was predetermined as we have consistently expressed our categorical disagreement with the distorted nature of the document, which, as events and consultat…
We thank Mr. De Mistura for his briefing. Russia has been following the March round of the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva very closely and encouraging all the participants to work constructively to arrive at mutually acceptable decisions and compromises regarding a peaceful settlement. In that context…
I would like to inform the members of the Security Council that during the course of the negotiations that took place today in Moscow between the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mr. Lavrov, and the Secretary of State of the United States, Mr. Tillerson, we proposed to the Ame…
I take the floor again only to say that I would like to ask the representatives of the United States and other countries not to insult my country. They have absolutely no moral right to do so. We do not behave in that way ourselves.
I would simply like to say that Ambassador Haley, who has only jus…
First of all, we convey our deep condolences to the Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations following the tragedy that took place in Stockholm.
On the night of 7 April, the United States carried out an attack on the territory of sovereign Syria. We describe that attack as a flagran…
We are grateful to the delegation of the United States for this opportunity for an open debate and to discuss honestly the very complex topic of the use of poisonous substances in the context of the Syrian conflict. Unfortunately, interest in such events clearly has an ideological thrust. Let us ack…
I am grateful to the Permanent Representative of Bolivia, Mr. Sacha Llorentty Solíz, for his briefing on the work of THE Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). We thank the Ambassador and his entire team for their successful leadership of that subsidiary body of the Council and th…
We are grateful to Special Representative of the Secretary-General Yamamoto for his detailed briefing on the situation in Afghanistan. We actively support his work and that of his highly professional team in Afghanistan and of the Secretariat. We are prepared to extend the mandate of his operation, …
We would like at the outset to thank Under- Secretary-General Stephen O’Brien for his very comprehensive and objective briefing on the results
of his recent visit to a number of countries that find themselves in a very difficult humanitarian situation. In calling for this meeting, we were motivated…
The Russian Federation voted against today’s draft resolution (S/2017/172), on imposing sanctions Syria, because its authors’ concept, which by its very nature is offensive and flawed, is totally unacceptable. The fact that the draft resolution failed to receive six Council members’ votes out of 15 …
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the President of Serbia, His Excellency Mr. Tomislav Nikolić, and share the serious concerns he expressed about the situation in Kosovo. We thank Ambassador Zahir Tanin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and his team for their briefin…
We would like to thank Under-Secretary- General Jeffrey Feltman for presenting the second report (S/2016/1136) of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). We note the productive start to the work of the Security Council’s new facilitator on the implementation of the res…
We supported the adoption of resolution 2323 (2016), but we must recall that, during the discussions on its elaboration, we strongly favoured extending the mandate of the United Nations Support Mission
in Libya for six months. We believe that to be the optimal time frame in the light of the weak po…
The Russian Federation voted in favour of today’s resolution 2321 (2016), which sanctions the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for conducting a fifth nuclear test. We should note that while Pyongyang’s behaviour ignored the legitimate requests of the international community and therefore requir…
