The Russian Federation is grateful to the Permanent Representative of Spain, Mr. Román Oyarzun Marchesi, for his briefing on the work of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004). We would like to thank him personally and all of his Spanish team for their successf…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General for Yemen, Mr. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed; the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein; and the Assistant Secretary- General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, for their briefings on the situation in Y…
The Russian Federation supported the adoption of resolution 2258 (2015) because we believe that it is important to maintain the cross-border provision of humanitarian assistance. It allows us to access people in hard-to-reach areas who cannot be
reached by other means. However, we regret that in th…
I thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Nicholas Haysom, who has been carrying out a very important mission. We would also like to welcome the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan, Mr. Mahmoud Saikal, to whom we are grateful for his substantive, in-depth and objective sta…
The Russian Federation is grateful to Ambassador Oyarzun Marchesi, Permanent Representative of Spain, for his briefing on the work of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006) during the latest reporting period.
Today, in a special session, the Board of Governors of the Internati…
Currently, the Middle East is seized by a rapidly growing sense of chaos. The terrorist violence is increasing in scope as the Islamic State and Jabhat Al-Nusra fight for broad swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, planting their roots in other States of the Middle East. As this year has shown, the…
At the outset, we should again like to express our deep sympathy and condolences to the people and the Government of France, to Paris, and to all countries, all people, all cities that have fallen victim to these horrible terrorist attacks, some of which may be facing the terrorist threat on a daily…
We have listened carefully to the briefing by the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Valentin Inzko. His regular briefing on the twentieth anniversary of the Dayton Agreement has confirmed that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina are independently tackling and solving very complex
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We welcome the participation in today’s meeting of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Ivica Dačić, and we share his sentiments.
We are grateful to Mr. Farid Zarif for the presentation of the report (S/2015/579) and for his many years of conscientious work as…
We are grateful to the Permanent Representative of Spain for the report about the recent work of the Committee that he chairs. The Russian Federation thanks the Spanish delegation for its skilful leadership of that subsidiary body of the Security Council at this very delicate stage. We hope for a co…
We thank Mr. Haysom for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and Mr. Tanin for delivering, as usual, his highly comprehensive statement. We share extreme concern over the description that the Council heard today. The Russian Federation is troubled by the deterioration of the situation in the…
The Russian Federation is grateful to the Chairs of the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committees for their solid work during the reporting period. The reports issued by those bodies make an important contribution to strengthening international counter-terrorism cooperation under the auspices of…
I regret having to take the floor a second time, but I am forced to make a statement on behalf of the Russian Federation.
I was, on the one hand, disappointed by the comments made by my colleague, the representative of the United States of America; on the other hand, I am filled with hope. Why was …
The agenda of the Security Council for the month of March was a very busy one, and we would like to thank the French team for the very skilful manner in which it conducted the work of the Council and the trip to Africa.
I should like to touch on a number of key issues. We are grateful to the delega…
We wish first to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Haysom, for his briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and, of course, Ambassador Tanin for his substantive briefing.
We agree with the assessment we heard today. A difficult situation continues to prevail in Afghanis…
We thank Ms. Kang and Mr. Guterres for their comprehensive briefings. We listened carefully to the information provided by our Security Council colleagues. We are grateful to the humanitarian workers and agencies who are working under fire in Syria, risking their lives in an attempt to alleviate suf…
The Russian Federation supported the adoption today of resolution 2201 (2015), which encourages all parties in Yemen to pursue dialogue, intensify their efforts to resolve the political crisis, and strive to implement the arrangements reached in the context of the Gulf Cooperation Council Initiative…
I would like to express our surprise at the fact that in his statement the representative of Costa Rica — which normally has friendly relations with the Russian Federation — distorted the thrust of the discussion held in the framework of the consultations in the Security Council. Our Ambassador put …
