We thank the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Nawaf Salam, for presenting his comprehensive report (A/79/4) on the work of the Court.
The importance of the Court’s function in the peaceful settlement of international disputes for the maintenance of international peace and secu…
The Russian delegation supported resolution 73/212 but would nevertheless like to comment on paragraph 12, in which the General Assembly expresses
“its appreciation for the efforts made by the host country, and expects that the issues raised at the meetings of the Committee will be resolved in a sp…
To be honest, we were startled by the statement made by the representative of Ukraine. He said almost nothing about the agenda item we discussed today and clearly simply had nothing to say. I will therefore outline and sum up what the Russian representative said, and I hope the Ukrainian representat…
Our country has always welcomed States’ productive cooperation on issues relating to the world’s oceans, which has been made possible thanks to the establishment of a robust legal foundation. Our delegation therefore supports the Assembly’s draft resolutions on the law of the sea (A/73/L.35) and sus…
The Russian delegation is committed to the rule of law at the international level and to combating impunity. We are adapting our national criminal legal system in response to current threats and challenges, as well as making active use of the applicable mechanisms for international cooperation on th…
We feel obliged to comment on the statement by the representative of Ukraine. Once again, apparently, her delegation did not hesitate to use an agenda item, the report of the International Court of Justice (A/73/4), not to evaluate the work of the Court during the reporting period but as propaganda …
The position of the Russian Federation on the concept of the responsibility to protect is well known. We will not repeat it now. But, before we proceed to a vote on this issue, we think it essential to take a brief look at history.
We recall that the member countries of the group promoting the conc…
During the meeting of the General Committee on 19 September, we expressed our negative view on the inclusion of the item on the so-called temporarily occupied territories in Ukraine on the agenda of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly. It is lamentable that the Committee, at the reques…
From the very beginning, our delegation has opposed the inclusion of the concept of the responsibility to protect as an item on the General Assembly’s agenda at this session, a decision that we believe is mistaken. I would like to briefly recall the history surrounding the issue.
The only recognize…
The Russian delegation is committed to the international rule of law and to fighting impunity. As part of the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals, our country was present at the birth of international criminal justice. Unfortunately, since the International Criminal Court (ICC) started its work, it has no…
I will be as brief as possible.
To begin, I would like to comment on the statement of the delegation to the effect that we did not speak during the debate. In the view of the Ukrainian delegation, that seems to mean something about our attitude to this debate. That has no relationship to reality. O…
We are compelled to comment on the statement by the delegation of Ukraine. We wish to recall that the debate on the report of the International Court of Justice is not the appropriate format for discussing the substance of cases that are being considered by that organ. Instead of making a constructi…
During the Assembly’s debate on resolution 58/318 on cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Russian delegation laid out a detailed account of our understanding of the problems within and around the Court, which have unfortunately been increasingly comp…
I apologize for taking the floor again. However I will be very brief. Our previous comments apply fully to the comments just made by the representative of Ukraine.
The delegations of Ukraine and Georgia have made a number of anti-Russian insinuations that have nothing to do with today’s topic. We reject them as baseless and irrelevant.
I would like to thank the leadership of the
International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for the annual reports on their activities (see A/70/226 and A/70/218, respectively) submitted to the General Assembly and also for the third…
