We wish to thank Mrs. Izumi Nakamitsu for her briefing on the report of the Secretary- General (S/2021/839). We also listened carefully to Mr. Badreldin Elamin Abdelgadir and Mr. David Lochhead.
We support the fact that the Kenyan presidency is conducting today’s meeting on small arms and light wea…
We thank Ms. Helen La Lime for her briefing on the very difficult situation in Haiti. We listened with interest to the statement delivered by Ms. Douyon. We welcome His Excellency Mr. Claude Joseph, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti, to today’s meeting.
Regrettably, alarming reports continue to…
Today Mrs. Nakamitsu presented the ninety- sixth monthly — the most recent — report of the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the implementation of resolution 2118 (2013) (S/2021/842, annex). Those documents have long since been based on the same t…
Russia is consistently committed to the goal of a complete and irrevocable cessation of nuclear testing throughout the world. Since 1991, our country has observed a moratorium on nuclear testing, and during that time has not conducted a single nuclear test.
This year marks the twenty-fifth annivers…
The Russian Federation wholeheartedly shares the international concern regarding the issue of climate change. According to our calculations, the climate in Russia is warming 2.5 times faster than the global average. At the same time, we are witnessing increasingly destructive natural phenomena. The …
The Russian Federation supported the technical resolution submitted by the United Kingdom on extending the mandate of the United Nations Support
Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) until 30 September (resolution 2595 (2021). At the same time, we would like to underscore our unstinting support for the efforts…
We thank the Special Envoy of the Secretary- General, Mr. Ján Kubiš, for his briefing on the situation in Libya. We also thank the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1970 (2011), concerning Libya, Ambassador Tirumurti, for his briefing on the work of that subs…
I have asked for the floor once again only to express my surprise at the stance taken by our Western colleagues in connection with the incident involving an air strike and cylinders related to the incident in Douma. I already spoke about this in my main statement, so I just want to once again say th…
Like our American colleague, we would like to thank France for its successful presidency in July, and we wish you, Mr. President, the very best during your presidency this month. We stand ready to cooperate and pledge our help. We are especially grateful to you and your team for convening the Securi…
The Russian delegation supported the adoption of resolution 2588 (2021), on the extension of the sanctions regime against the Central African Republic. We note that the Security Council responded to the legitimate request of the authorities of the Central African Republic to further ease sanctions. …
We are grateful to Deputy Special Coordinator Lynn Hastings for her briefing, and we carefully listened to Yudith Oppenheimer’s briefing.
We believe that the main tasks for the upcoming period are to strengthen the agreements on the ceasefire and to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to all the…
We note with regret that today the Security Council was unable to adopt draft resolution S/2021/667, on the appointment of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that the candidacy of Mr. Christian Schmidt was not approved by the Security Council. We have warned that any attempts by…
The Russian Federation, as a responsible member of the international community and a permanent member of the Security Council, takes very seriously its responsibilities regarding post-conflict solutions and ensuring good-neighbourly intercommunal relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our country is a…
We thank the Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu for presenting the report of the Secretary- General on the situation in the country (S/2021/603). We welcome the Vice-President and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Ms. Marta Lucía Ramírez.
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We thank Mr. Mahamat Saleh Annadif, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, and Ms. Chantal Ayemou, President of the Ivorian Network for the Protection of Children’s and Women’s Rights, for their briefings.
We share the concerns over dangerous challenges that …
We are grateful to Ms. Helen La Lime, Special
Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), for her briefing on the situation in the country and the work of BINUH.
The situation on the island is a source of growing concern. The security …
At the outset, I would like to thank the briefers, Ms. Loraine Sievers and Ms. Karin Landgren, for their comprehensive briefings. We echo the colleagues who paid tribute to Professor Edward Luck and Ambassador Kenzo Oshima for their studies of the Security Council’s working methods. We also thank Ms…
We welcome the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles, and we listened very carefully to his assessments.
We are in favour of developing cooperation between the United Nations and regional and subregional organizations on the b…
There is not a person in the world who has been left indifferent by the events of the past two weeks in the Middle East. We have all felt the pain of the human suffering and the hopelessness of a situation in which each side blames the other for its exacerbation, while innocent civilians continue to…
I regret to say that we are witnessing yet another attempt to submit for the General Assembly’s consideration an extremely politicized and unbalanced draft resolution (A/75/L.56) that is can only deepen dissension among Member States while in no way deepening the cooperation between the United Natio…
