We would first like to thank our colleagues from the European Union for their work on ensuring an agreement on resolution 74/116, on the safety and security of humanitarian personnel, and for their efforts to secure a consensus on that resolution. For that reason we did not attempt to prevent its ad…
We would like to thank the delegations of the Netherlands, Sweden, Kuwait and Côte d’Ivoire for preparing the text of resolution 2417 (2018). We are particularly grateful to our Dutch colleagues for coordinating it and for facilitating its agreement. We have noted our partners’ professionalism and c…
We too would like to explain our position with regard
to the two paragraphs of draft resolution A/72/L.22 that are to be put to a recorded vote.
We are voting on those paragraphs for the second year. It is also the second year that our delegation, like others, is calling on other delegations to re…
I should like to begin with a general remark on today’s meeting. Sub-item (a) of agenda item 69, which is the topic of the meeting, focuses on the coordination of humanitarian assistance. To be frank, we expected the meeting to be an opportunity to exchange views on the substantive content of the ag…
The Russian Federation consistently advocates the prosecution of individuals guilty of having perpetrated grave international crimes. Our country was at the origin of the establishment of the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes tribunals. We took part in crafting their Charters. For the same fundamental …
