I simply want to state for the record that we are witnessing, within the Security Council, the normalization of a culture of unacceptable behaviour. When the Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic took the floor, other Permanent Representatives purposefully stood up and left the Chambe…
To begin with, I would like to say that we greatly appreciate the work of the United Nations humanitarian personnel in Syria, and we actively support them. There is no need to convince us of the importance of assisting the United Nations, and Ambassador Rycroft’s suggestion to that effect is dishone…
We thank the delegation of Senegal for convening today’s very important meeting. Russia strongly advocates building and deepening cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the basis of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations.
OIC members a…
We are grateful to the German coordinators for their hard work in preparing the Assembly’s annual resolution on Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s complex situation continues to be a major focus for the international community. The increase in the number of civilian casualties is a serious concern. The spr…
I must touch upon events that preceded today’s adoption of resolution 2319 (2016). I stress that we are very concerned by the actions of a number of States, seeking to shift consideration of the issue of the competence of the Security Council to the forum of a purely technical international mechanis…
We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and share the very serious concerns he has expressed with regard to the state of affairs in Kosovo. We thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-Gener…
My apologies for interrupting. I wanted to ask my colleague and friend from Japan to take his bottle of wine off the Security Council table, if he would. I would again like to remind everyone that this table is a sacred piece of furniture that should be treated with respect. As a matter of principle…
First of all, we are grateful to our United Kingdom colleagues for their constructive approach during the consultations and willingness to take our chief concerns into consideration, enabling us to support today’s Security Council resolution 2015 (2016) on extending Operation Althea of the European …
I apologize to all of those present in the Chamber, Minister Lajčák and Ambassador Lodhi, for requesting the floor again. I will be very brief.
Today’s meeting was supposed to be a serious, substantive discussion on strengthening international efforts to prevent weapons of mass destruction from fal…
The Russian Federation’s firm stance is that international and regional efforts with regard to Burundi will be successful only if they are taken in strict respect for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. Resolution 2303 (2016) must be implemented in cooperation, co…
We thank Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and Under-Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien for their detailed briefings on the military-political and humanitarian situations in the Lake Chad Basin region.
Of particul…
The General Assembly has just adopted oral decision 70/559, rolling over the consideration of the issue of Security Council reform to the seventy-first session. The consensus adoption of the decision has allowed us to avoid creating new dividing lines among the participants of the intergovernmental …
First of all, we would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, for his comprehensive briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and for his courageous work as Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). We listened closely to th…
The Russian Federation did not prevent the adoption of resolution 2292 (2016). When we began working on the draft, we had the impression that this initiative was supposed to bring order to the illicit trafficking in weapons in Libya. That is why our delegation joined the discussions, intent on creat…
We welcome the presence here of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Mr. Ivica Dačić. We share his comments. We would also like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Mr. Zahir Tanin, for his briefing on the work of the United …
We would like to welcome Mr. Inzko, High Representative for the Implementation of the Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is with a great deal of attention that we have familiarized ourselves with Mr. Inzko’s report to the Security Council (see S/2016/395, annex) and listened to his brief…
The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), which was set up by the Security Council and includes Russian military observers, has played an extremely important stabilizing role. Its work has been effective and has allowed for the establishment of an environment that is…
We would like to thank you, Mr. President, for
convening today’s meeting. We note that the delegation of Venezuela is making an important contribution to the work of the Security Council in the area of sanctions. We listened closely to the statements delivered by the representatives of Sweden and C…
We are concerned by the very complex
humanitarian situation in Syria, which has arisen as a result of the continuing internal armed conflict. We note the efforts that have been undertaken by the humanitarian agencies of the United Nations and by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent. It is of critical impor…
The Russian Federation supported the adoption today of resolution 2259 (2015), guided by the need to find an immediate way to restore the sovereignty, unity, independence and territorial integrity of Libya.
We thank our partners for having taken into account concerns about ensuring the broadly repr…
